For your reading pleasure. (NOTE: After reviewing what I wrote, it
occurred to me that it might be mis-interpreted as a tirade because you
can't see me smiling in an ironic sort of way. It's not. Just sharing a
couple of war stories that came to mind when I read this. I'm sure many
of you can commiserate with me.....) (:->
In my years of doing storage management, I've noticed that hardly anybody
considers the storage-related issues when building a new application. We
have application areas that, no matter how many times you tell them,
never take storage management into account until they're ready to implement.
Then all of a sudden they need 20 GB of DASD within the next three days.
"What? You don't have it available? Well okay, we can wait up to a week..."
The same goes for backup. We had a user area implement, unbeknownst to
us, some kind of software package that requires upwards of 6 GB of DASD,
the ability to transfer large amounts of data to and from the mainframe,
and to be able to back up and restore said 6 GB of data in a relatively
quick time frame. Guess what platform they implemented this on: *DOS*!!!
Oh, and by the way, guess who has to provide a backup solution?... (never
mind dealing with the other issues).
Now I see the same thing with Windows 95. The latest toy arrives on the
shelves, and everyone has to have one. Not until after they already have
it, do they bother to consider whether they can back it up. This, and
other questions, should be answered *before* implementation.
Oh well, back to business as usual! :)
Andy Raibeck
Connecticut Mutual
203-987-3521
Attached note from Greg Piney:
> At first, I did not care how timely a client for Windows 95 would b
> available.
> No one had any plans to go to it very quickly after introduction. The problem
> is
> that people are getting new PC's with WIN95 pre-installed. They want
> to recover backups and archives they did under WIN31. For now, We (I) recover
> the requested data to a spare PC made to look like their old one
> and then the user does an ftp download. Not exactly the kind of job I had in
> mind. Now would be a good time for a WIN95 client. It would definitely keep
> me out of a loop I don't wish to be in.
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