First people appropriated the engineer title. (What, you drive a train?)

Then they appropriated the architect title. (OK Mr Brady.)

What next, Storage Doctor?

Since I bring peoples data back from the past, I can be a Storage
Anthropologist or maybe a Storage Time Lord?

TGIF.



From:
"Gill, Geoffrey L." <GEOFFREY.L.GILL AT SAIC DOT COM>
To:
ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date:
05/27/2010 11:47 AM
Subject:
Re: [ADSM-L] why create a 12TB LUN
Sent by:
"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>



Ah yes, the 'storage architect'. I believe that's the genius who came to
me.

Geoff Gill
TSM/PeopleSoft Administrator
SAIC M/S-B1P
4224 Campus Pt. Ct.
San Diego, CA  92121
(858)826-4062 (office)
(858)412-9883 (blackberry)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf
Of
> Richard Sims
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 11:01 AM
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: why create a 12TB LUN
>
> This kind of issue defines why a site should have a storage architect,
to
> select the best overall implementation of such storage, including
> safeguarding against problems.  Some storage requires only failsafe
> protection represented in RAID 1 or RAID 5.  Some requires multi-
> generation file-level backup for recoverability from logical errors
and
> tampering.  Then there are disaster recovery requirements of the site.
> The site storage specialist would also have knowledge of the
> characteristics of the data at the site, and be versed in regulatory
> requirements, for privacy and retention factors to be considered in
the
> overall solution.  The storage specialist would also be up on the
latest
> storage technologies and products, to select the most appropriate to
the
> needs.
>
> The days of a company department acquiring a clump of disk and
> implementing it in an arbitrary manner are long gone...or should be.
>
>      Richard Sims



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