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We All Have Day Jobs

By Tony Pearson posted Fri June 19, 2009 04:43 PM

  

Originally posted by: TonyPearson


Jon Toigo has a funny cartoon on his post, [As I Listen to EMC Brag on “New” Functionality…]. Basically, it pokes fun that many of us bloggers argue which vendor was first to introduce some technology or another. We all do this, myself included.

Recently, Claus Mikkelsen's, currently with HDS, [brought up accurately some past history from the 1990s], which is before many storage bloggers hired on with their current employers. Claus and I worked together for IBM back then, so I recognized many of the events he mentions that I can't talk about either. In many cases, IBM or HDS delivered new features before EMC.

I've been reading with some amusement as fellow blogger Barry Burke asked Claus a series of questions about Hitachi's latest High Availability Manager (HAM) feature. Claus was too busy with his "day job" and chose to shut Barry down. Sadly, HDS set themselves up for ridicule this round, first by over-hyping a function before its announcement, and then announcing a feature that IBM and EMC have offered for a while. The problem and confusion for many is that each vendor uses different terminology. Hitachi's HAM is similar to IBM's HyperSwap and EMC's AutoSwap. The implementations are different, of course, which is often why vendors are often asked to compare and contrast one implementation to another.

In his latest response,[how to mind the future of a mission-critical world], Barry reports that several HDS bloggers now censor his comments.That's too bad. I don't censor comments, within reason, including Barry's inane questions about IBM's products, and am glad that he does not censor my inane questions to him about EMC products in return. The entire blogosphere benefits from these exchanges, even if they are a bit heated sometimes.

We all have day jobs, and often are just too busy, or too lazy, to read dozens or hundreds of pages of materials, if we can even find them in the first place. Not everyone has the luxury of a "competitive marketing" team to help do the research for you, so if we can get an accurate answer or clarification about a product that is generally available directly from a vendor's subject matter expert, I am all for that.

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Archive User
Tue June 23, 2009 02:03 PM

css2
It looks like this is related to IE6 and the handling of embedded YouTubes videos I posted back on 20th October last year.
Try going to the link below (directly) bypassing the main blog page where you now get all the posts for the last year, hence it is trying to show these embedded videos.
Hopefully this link should work.
Cheers, Barry

Archive User
Mon June 22, 2009 07:27 PM

Thanks Tony.
I use Internet Explorer 6.0.2900 on XP SP3. I deleted all cookies but it didn't make any difference. The error message I get says:
Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site.https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/storagevirtualization/.
Operation Aborted

Archive User
Mon June 22, 2009 03:06 PM

Css2, the MyDW team would like to know which browser you are using to help debug the problem. Also, please try clearing out all DeveloperWorks-related cookies and see if that helps. Feel free to post your results here as a comment to this blog.-- Tony

Archive User
Mon June 22, 2009 10:35 AM

Css2, yes, Barry's blog was moved to the new service, called MyDeveloperworks, which offers a ton of new features, but encountered some problems in the transition. I was scheduled to be moved as well, but in light of these, moves were postponed until the MyDW team can address them.-- Tony

Archive User
Sat June 20, 2009 06:09 AM

Thanks, Tony.
While my questions may tend to be irritating, I hardly think they are inane.
The Mirriam-Webster dictionary defines inane as "lacking significance, meaning, or point." As with your questions, I think there is always a point. And the ensuing repartee is truly significant - we share a lot of information that might otherwise remain opaque to our readers.
Vive la dialogue!

Archive User
Fri June 19, 2009 08:54 PM

I enjoy reading all the blogs and have learned much from them. One of the blogs I enjoy reading is Barry White's, but ever since it was moved to the new service, it just aborts my browser. So I have no way to leave a comment over there. Is anyone else having the same problem?