Quotes by Alan Hunt

“Initially I thought that everything was going to be connected directly off of the switches of the SAN fabric. But instead I ended up moving the Overland devices directly off the backup server to get it to work,”

“We needed to control costs from a labor perspective. We would rather spend the money on equipment than on having people delete files to help us deal with performance issues,”

“Certainly the snapshots are going to give us easier access to files we need to get back, and the replication will help us with our disaster recovery plans,”

“I still believe direct-attached storage is the most reliable technology, but its not realistic given the size of our data storage, ... ISCSI should enable us to give our remote locations growth capacity we couldnt provide before, at a reasonable price.”

“But everything Cisco sent me (turned out to be) 10/100 switches for about the same price as the gigabit switches.”

“I always feel like Im looking for information. Its such a big puzzle ... [but] I dont need those high-end capabilities. I think that Microsoft has been focusing on great things [over] the last few years?from my perspective ... security and storage. Its having the [storage] pieces within the [operating system] thats very critical, and it drives prices down.”