[volunteers] Current list of Speakers - June through October 2011

[Bill Teeple]

Seems odd that you open up a can of worms with your statement and then push everyone off to the next Linux meeting?

Bill



Excuse the curtness and typos; sent from an iPhone 4

Bill Teeple
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On May 6, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Jesse Monroy <jesse650 at gmail.com> wrote:

> At the next SVLUG meeting please.
> 
> Jesse
> 
> On 5/6/11, Mehma Sarja <mehmasarja at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5/5/11 10:21 PM, Jesse Monroy wrote:
>>> I don't see a significant difference between the two technologies. As
>>> such, I would be happy
>>> 
>> Huge differences. Got presentations from IBM and HDS a couple of years
>> back. IBM, and at that time Sun were reselling LSI boxes with their own,
>> differing, management software and firmware. HDS, for example, controls
>> the firmware on each drive itself. How they cache indexes of what data
>> is on what drive - is different from an AOE array and different among
>> competing FC products.  Netapp or EMC, forget which, uses Windows as
>> it's management software OS - prone to viruses, others don't.
>> 
>> I see what you are saying about the technologies being the same. In a
>> sense that's true at the drive level and at the optical switch level and
>> at the HBA level. But that's like saying America and Brazil are
>> essentially the same country - same continent, both are countries with
>> western cultures and languages. I think our meaning of technology is
>> different. I think of technology as a "technique" and involves the whole
>> system which provides a function - h/w. s/w and f/w. I am guessing your
>> meaning is more narrow.
>> 
>> Yudhvir
>> 
> 
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