Greg Schulz Quotations

We expect WAN file services, network accelerators and remote vaulting to all get bigger in 2006.

Ultimately, we need to shift from a reactive to a proactive and event-based data protection, something that CDP helps to start to facilitate,

Short term, I see some initial and point solutions being deployed in conjunction with other solutions and the opportunity for integration services and support.

Here we go again. We've been down this road before, many times.

Keep track of the patterns. This won't stop just one instance of data loss -- this is for recognizing ongoing issues with your security.

Organizations are becoming buried under the amount of information accumulating at a rapid rate across the enterprise. Not only is much of this information redundant and presents an unnecessary burden on storage and resources, but it also exposes these organizations to regulatory and legal scrutiny.

Unless you're in the business of doing performance testing, you probably aren't doing performance testing on an everyday basis.

The question remains, can they buy their way into a crowded market? Are their capabilities and price unique enough to garner significant market share growth? And how will they execute on their roadmap?

Compounding the problem is that commodity prices are pretty ordinary at the moment, and this is not helping net returns

Storage distance extension is a key data protection enabling technology in the storage architectures of medium- and large-scale organizations, while variations in SAN implementation call for flexibility in how these extensions are provided to network designers. Brocade is raising the bar for performance with FCIP and SAN Routing, while meeting the need to deliver flexible options to its customers.

Some organizations move tapes, whether internally or externally, in sealed metal containers with tamperproof locks. Others use Tupperware. Some protect them with a person at all times, and some just leave them in the lobby. In some ways it amazes me. Would you leave your wallet out in a lobby? Why leave tapes lying around?

It's like a big shredder. For every three (cubic) yards you put in, you get one back out.

It's kind of six of one, a half dozen of the other. Storage vendors are always going to advertise that their products will take the load off the server. Server vendors are going to say they'll take the load off your storage -- frankly, I'd be disappointed in a server vendor like IBM that didn't try to leverage its servers.

It's good that HP feels it doesn't have to invent everything as it means they can get to market quickly with new products, ... But they should also be careful they don't end up with a Chinese menu of products to resell as that adds cost and overhead.

It's great if you can't afford a dedicated system administrator and you don't need to do much customization. It's not going to be for everyone as it doesn't support all platforms and doesn't provide file-level changes.

Talk about changing directions -- this isn't a 180-degree turn, it's a new definition of a U-turn.

In general, whenever you move or remove a bottleneck, in this case the slow tape in the backup process, you invariably will shift or cause a bottleneck elsewhere, unless you have taken adequate precautions.