Here is a podcast preview from our Dallas seminar. ?The fully combined and edited podcast should be released sometime in September. ?We are also discussing a video podcast of the Irvine, CA seminar but no promises. ?Enjoy.
-RJB
So I have been reading other storage industry pundits’ opinions on the uses for LC-FC (Low Cost Fibre Channel Disk) and ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) disk drives.? The? use of ATA disks in mid-tier storage devices and virtual tape libraries as a primary disk-to-disk backup (D2D) and/or archiving target has become quite pervasive.? While the drives lack some fibre channel (FC) features like tagged command queuing and the mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) is not as high as a fibre channel drives they work well in applications like backup-to-disk (B2D) due to their ability to achieve tolerable sequential read and write speeds.? The industry as a whole has now begun to leverage LC-FC disks in enterprise class storage subsystems, while fundamentally this is a great idea, the marketing and packaging of these solutions needs a bit of work.? Most enterprise class subsystems leverage platform software for functions like snapshots and replication, many vendors price these platform software applications by capacity.? Why would anyone install 500GB LC-FC drives in an enterprise class subsystem and push their platform software licensing through the roof.? It would more cost effectively purchase a mid-tier storage device with 15K rpm fibre channel drives to use as a tier 2 or 3 storage platform, this solution would also most likely be higher performing.? This is a fundamental problem, if a storage device can truly accommodate multi-tier storage requirements why should the addition of tier 2 or tier 3 storage capacity where functionality like synchronous or asynchronous replication are typically not required raise the cost of my platform software licensing?? Until this is resolved it will be difficult to realize the vision of a single multi-tier platform.
-RJB
Well, we just wrapped up week 2 of "The Evolution of Disaster Recovery" seminar series, this week we visited Washington DC, NY and Boston.? The week was topped of by the what I would call the best seminar thus far in Boston with good attendee interaction and some of the best questions we have seen to date, west coast there is still time to nudge out Boston for best seminar.? I think we are putting together some great questions from all the seminars and I am really excited to publish the podcast sometime in September.? Next week we wrap-up on the west coast with a stop in LA, Orange County and San Diego, I am looking forward to a capacity crowd. The highlight of the show thus far for me was a comment we received on one of the comment cards which read "It was really nice to attend a seminar where the presenters knew the material so well".? Hopefully you have been happy with the content and walked away with some valuable insight.? We are reading every single comment card? and next quarter we will be looking to improve the material and format based on them.? Thanks again for attending!
-RJB
Just arrived at my hotel in Boston an I am preparing to deliver “The Evolution of? Disaster Recovery” seminar in our sixth city tomorrow morning.? I put my new video iPod (that Cisco so graciously awarded me after passing a certification exam) to good use on the way up from Newark.? I watched the “The Code (Linux)” a Swedish Linux documentary.? As a long time Linux hacker and a technology history buff I was already familiar with most of the content that was presented in the film but there were a couple of concepts that got me excited, so excited I needed to blog on them.? The first was a statement by Linus Torvalds, for those of you who don’t know who Linus is, he is generally recognized creator of the Linux kernel.? Linus has arguably directed one of the most complex collaborative software development initiatives in the history of computing.? We can learn a lot from him and the Linux development effort on how to motivate and extract the most from people.? Linus discusses how the management of Linux kernel development project morphed from a hierarchical management structure to a what he describes today as a “web of trust” where developers are empowered to act.? Eric Raymond the author of “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” and all around open source czar also has some phenomenal words of wisdom.? Eric talks about what motivates open source engineers outside of monetary gain.
I found these points to be interesting because I have always embraced the philosophy of empowerment and mentoring over dictating policy and managing to that policy.? In my opinion the difference between a good organization and an insanely great organization is the ability to apply concepts such as the ones discussed above, so everyone participates in a culture where free thinking, innovation, empowerment, reputation, recognition, and responsibility are allowed to flourish.? The concept of totalitarian rule is ignorant and stifles innovation.? Empowerment is the key to innovation and ultimately greatness!
-RJB
All, the much anticipated presentation is now avialable. I hope everyone enjoyed the seminars thus far.
Click here to download the presentation.
-RJB
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Dallas Evolution of Disaster Recovery Seminar Podcast Teaser
The Evolutions of Disaster Recovery