Watch Bullitt Online Free - Watch Movies Online For Free Full Movie Downloads
Shared via AddThis
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
Dealing with Willful Ignorance
Trying to configure a Disk to Disk backup system that is the appropriate size, connection options, and compatibility is a daunting by itself. Counter that with diminishing budgets, uneducated management, and willful ignorance by your employee's makes it literally impossible to create an optimized configuration. As an administrator and system integration engineer, I fight these battles almost daily, and the desire to just throw it all away bubbles to the surface.
I know that this is not a healthy approach to stress, however, the inability to effectively disseminate proper training and education on new systems becomes arduous at best. I have example after example, however, it wouldn't have any basis on this article. I can explain what is needed to present a successful project request, however, it will mean tedious data crunching, so that you can provide the educated decision your executive committee needs.
First Step: Gather the needs of each of your departments. Identify their system needs, storage needs, how often they need to access these files, backup/archive strategy, and/or storage requirements.
Second: Identify storages amounts and security requirements. Look at those departments that seem to hoard all of their files forever. Think about the different solutions out there to fill in specific needs of your implementation. For example, if you have the money, look for a deduplication foundation to help reduce the expansive storage overhead that you may have. Deduplication solutions allow for steamlined data storage by linking multiple copies to a single version. As an example, department a sends an attachment to 50 individuals, and those 50 forwards it on to 10 people each. Now, you're looking at 500 copies of the same document. At 3mb each, you're looking at a single email causing a net loss of storage to the tune of 1500mb or 1.5 gb of storage. Use the De-dup solution, and instead of 1.5gb, you would only have 3mb with links to the file.
Third and Last:
Administration and maintenance is key. Disk space is growing exponetially, and the ability to maintain your disk's efficiency is key. It is not unheard of anymore to have a system capable of saving 1-2TB of data, and if you do not maintain the disk, either through defrag and/or scan disk, your disk performance would drop almost %50 .
I will check back periodically to show and explain that steps that I have taken with regards to my immediate project.
Thanks!
I know that this is not a healthy approach to stress, however, the inability to effectively disseminate proper training and education on new systems becomes arduous at best. I have example after example, however, it wouldn't have any basis on this article. I can explain what is needed to present a successful project request, however, it will mean tedious data crunching, so that you can provide the educated decision your executive committee needs.
First Step: Gather the needs of each of your departments. Identify their system needs, storage needs, how often they need to access these files, backup/archive strategy, and/or storage requirements.
Second: Identify storages amounts and security requirements. Look at those departments that seem to hoard all of their files forever. Think about the different solutions out there to fill in specific needs of your implementation. For example, if you have the money, look for a deduplication foundation to help reduce the expansive storage overhead that you may have. Deduplication solutions allow for steamlined data storage by linking multiple copies to a single version. As an example, department a sends an attachment to 50 individuals, and those 50 forwards it on to 10 people each. Now, you're looking at 500 copies of the same document. At 3mb each, you're looking at a single email causing a net loss of storage to the tune of 1500mb or 1.5 gb of storage. Use the De-dup solution, and instead of 1.5gb, you would only have 3mb with links to the file.
Third and Last:
Administration and maintenance is key. Disk space is growing exponetially, and the ability to maintain your disk's efficiency is key. It is not unheard of anymore to have a system capable of saving 1-2TB of data, and if you do not maintain the disk, either through defrag and/or scan disk, your disk performance would drop almost %50 .
I will check back periodically to show and explain that steps that I have taken with regards to my immediate project.
Thanks!
Friday, February 20, 2009
As a Father, I'm So Blessed
There are times in your life where all you can do is simply reflect and count your blessings. Today I was floored, put aside, and completely beside myself by a simple and unselfish act by my eldest son. Today, he had a competition that he was going to with his school, and out of the blue he called me to let me know what was going on and said that he "Loved Me". He said that in front of all of his friends.
Looking back as a father and addressing all of the faults that have transpired, you can't help but to wonder what you could have done better. As there is no right or wrong way to be a parent, and no matter who expresses themselves as an expert, it is still a crap shoot on what your results will be. Often times, I reflect on my decisions a little too often, and it is a constant chore to keep myself from second guessing all of my decisions. Should I punish because of this, should I let them do that, and am I making the right decision that will help him grow personally?
Through all of this, he still called me to let me know how he is doing and to let me know that he loves me. That by itself lets me know that I'm not doing too bad.
Thank you Buddy!!!
Looking back as a father and addressing all of the faults that have transpired, you can't help but to wonder what you could have done better. As there is no right or wrong way to be a parent, and no matter who expresses themselves as an expert, it is still a crap shoot on what your results will be. Often times, I reflect on my decisions a little too often, and it is a constant chore to keep myself from second guessing all of my decisions. Should I punish because of this, should I let them do that, and am I making the right decision that will help him grow personally?
Through all of this, he still called me to let me know how he is doing and to let me know that he loves me. That by itself lets me know that I'm not doing too bad.
Thank you Buddy!!!
Monday, January 26, 2009
Is Linux a Good Alternative to PC users
You know, I am fairly new to Linux as a desktop, and I like it so far. As I have run some virtual environments to test various distributions, I must say that it is coming along nicely, however, I do not believe that it's ready for the mainstream yet.
From an administrator point of view, you couldn't ask for a stable and secure platform to run server based applications, however, a desktop needs to be a little more user friendly. I am a little partial to the Debian backend with Ubuntu and Kubuntu, and the interfaces are quite user friendly, however, installing software and devices are pretty difficult, especially if you don't know what you are doing. Understanding the drive structure, where to install applications and where to save and access your files.
Like I said, the desktops are becoming more and more user friendly, however, with the advent of windows new release and Mac's leopard, I do not see the retail sector exploding in popularity until all of these concerns are met.
From an administrator point of view, you couldn't ask for a stable and secure platform to run server based applications, however, a desktop needs to be a little more user friendly. I am a little partial to the Debian backend with Ubuntu and Kubuntu, and the interfaces are quite user friendly, however, installing software and devices are pretty difficult, especially if you don't know what you are doing. Understanding the drive structure, where to install applications and where to save and access your files.
Like I said, the desktops are becoming more and more user friendly, however, with the advent of windows new release and Mac's leopard, I do not see the retail sector exploding in popularity until all of these concerns are met.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)