With Windows 7 being implemented across the world, initial reviews coming in have been positive for the latest Microsoft Operating System.   Much like 2000 was to NT, and XP was to, dare I mention, ME, Windows 7 is a huge improvement from the Apple’ish OS of Vista.

So in NetBackup 7 they decided to drop the 2 reporting add-ons and usher in OpsCenter…THANK YOU SYMANTEC!! As an engineer dealing with supporting NetBackup Operations Manager and Veritas Backup Reporter was to say the least a pain in the (shut your mouth!!!). I am sure as a customer it is less of a headache because now when the big cheese asks for a pretty pie graph and statistical reporting they have a one stop shop. So your boss wants a report from your Netbackup environment? You can, yes sir… But wait he wants a report of your backup exec environment as well?

The new Storage Foundation 5.1 is not your daddy’s storage foundation! With the introduction of Storage Foundation 5.1, Symantec has introduced a new feature called "keyless feature enablement". The primary objective of keyless feature enablement is to improve the customer experience with Storage Foundation High Availability and make it easier to deploy, manage and use the product set.

When it comes to Storage Area Networks (SAN) currently the dominant standard is Fibre Channel (FC).  FC has the added complexity of having to manage an additional networking infrastructure for storage.  The alternative of iSCSI exists that allows customers to cut costs and ease management but the performance just isn’t there.  For less demanding workloads iSCSI can fill the gap between NAS and FC SANs.  Prior to the introduction of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) in June of 2009 FC was your only option for high bandwidth applications.  FCoE provides the benefits of FC combined with the simp

Current IT service environments in many enterprises are often faced with the difficult task of leveraging the old, the current and the upcoming technologies.  Dissimilar technologies use legacy applications and legacy systems and are often loosely coupled with current “semi-open systems” while administrators look toward the future with the hope of connecting these existing systems to “newer” technologies.  Even grander is the service provider or service administrator’s hope of keeping in alignment with the five major pillars of ITIL v3 library: 1) Service Strategy; 2) Service Design; 3) Servic

One of the benefits of this job, and subsequently a benefit to readers of this blog, is my ability to interact directly with Oracle development.

Last week a diverse group of Industry executives were invited to meet with the President and his staff to offer their ideas on using technology to streamline government and make it more responsive to citizens.

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