I just thought this is a great example of how far our perception of storage has evolved over the years. Yes, I am old enough to remember most of these items. :)

Alright, back to this one… So I mentioned in the previous post, that I was going to point out the differences in the NetApp offering. NetApp was actually not on my shortlist right away. To me, they had always been a provider of NAS appliances. I had looked at their stuff several years earlier. At that time, I …

A Twitter follower (@paulstringy ) prompted me to write this post. Based on a conversation about the differences between NetApp & Equallogic appliances. Truth be told, there is quite a lot to separate the two. I don’t even consider them to be in the same class. Equallogic has been around for about 6 or 7 …

You would not believe how many vendors & ISV’s I talk to throught the workweek. On any given day, I usually have to tell some poor sap “NO”, or “I am unintrested in your products, please stop calling”! It does take an enormous ammount of paitentce not to just hang up the phone, but I …

So.. Veritas finally has the answer. It was a problem with the tape backup device that we were using. Tried to backup/restore from disk… and it worked! Now I have to work up a proposal for a new backup server for Oracle!! Whoo Hoo!!! On a lighter note, I have been reviewing the documentation for …