Networker

Re: [Networker] EMC Networker release cycle.

2011-10-19 19:42:50
Subject: Re: [Networker] EMC Networker release cycle.
From: Eugene Vilensky <evilensky AT GMAIL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:42:00 -0500
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 2:38 PM, HackNDos
<networker-forum AT backupcentral DOT com> wrote:
> Most all of there efforts switched from Networker into their Avamar product. 
>  This was evident with the Exchange 2010 Support.  Typically something that 
> would get released 90 days after a product is released took them 1.5 years to 
> release.  And if you noticed during this same period Avamar had Exchange 2010 
> support.  In fact our account rep tried to get us to switch from Networker to 
> Avamar.
>
> I have been questioning where Networker has been heading since that all 
> started and how much effort is EMC going to keep putting into Networker based 
> on these actions.
>
> Someone said do we want a good vs bad product release, I think maybe 
> something more transparent like a roadmap of what they have planned would 
> make plenty of Networker customers happy.

As a potentially worthless anecdotal observation...when was the last
time the @EMCNetWorker Twitter account tweeted about NetWorker?  If
marketing has run out of good things to say about the product in
public in favor of Avamar...

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