Comments on: RPO vs. RTO http://blog.50micron.com/2006/10/25/rpo-vs-rto/ Ranting and raving about storage and technology Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:36:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: SanGod http://blog.50micron.com/2006/10/25/rpo-vs-rto/comment-page-1/#comment-33 SanGod Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:12:57 +0000 http://www.sangod.com/?p=33#comment-33 Yeah - most of my work was "Hey sales told me it would even make coffee" You have two options in those situations. You break the news to them gently, or you enable the coffee-making subroutine. ;-) That was where I learned that MTI wasn't alone. It's a habit of sales people, to say anything they have to say to make the sale, regardless of whether or not it was true. I got pulled into a movie studio in Burbank that will remain nameless (anyone who knows me knows which one it was) It was supposed to be six weeks of TimeFinder / DB2 scripting. Turns out they were running SAP over DB2 so the backups weren't working. When digging it turns out that DB2/SAP/TimeFinder had at the point never been supported, because SAP configured DB2 in an odd way that prevented you from freezing all I/O on the database. 18 months later I was still there and ended up having to quit the consulting firm I was working for because they wouldn't let me out. *THAT* was fun. Yeah – most of my work was “Hey sales told me it would even make coffee”

You have two options in those situations. You break the news to them gently, or you enable the coffee-making subroutine. ;-)

That was where I learned that MTI wasn’t alone. It’s a habit of sales people, to say anything they have to say to make the sale, regardless of whether or not it was true.

I got pulled into a movie studio in Burbank that will remain nameless (anyone who knows me knows which one it was) It was supposed to be six weeks of TimeFinder / DB2 scripting. Turns out they were running SAP over DB2 so the backups weren’t working. When digging it turns out that DB2/SAP/TimeFinder had at the point never been supported, because SAP configured DB2 in an odd way that prevented you from freezing all I/O on the database.

18 months later I was still there and ended up having to quit the consulting firm I was working for because they wouldn’t let me out.

*THAT* was fun.

]]> By: mackem http://blog.50micron.com/2006/10/25/rpo-vs-rto/comment-page-1/#comment-31 mackem Tue, 07 Nov 2006 19:44:39 +0000 http://www.sangod.com/?p=33#comment-31 Haha What *real* work is that? Irritating problems, long hours, endless support calls, doesn't do what it says on the package type stuff ;-) Just kidding of course - I couldn't resist the joke though. I like your view on the two of three options. Mackem Haha

What *real* work is that? Irritating problems, long hours, endless support calls, doesn’t do what it says on the package type stuff ;-)

Just kidding of course – I couldn’t resist the joke though.

I like your view on the two of three options.

Mackem

]]> By: SanGod http://blog.50micron.com/2006/10/25/rpo-vs-rto/comment-page-1/#comment-27 SanGod Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:47:14 +0000 http://www.sangod.com/?p=33#comment-27 Yeah, MTI was a sucking waste of a year of my life. Only to get canned when I objected to a less-than-perfect design sold into a customer in Vegas. When it finally did blow up in their faces, they didn't like the "I told ya so" so I was out in the next group of layoffs. Don't mind it too much though, I got hired by an EMC Partner a couple of weeks later, and that's when the *REAL* work started. Yeah, MTI was a sucking waste of a year of my life. Only to get canned when I objected to a less-than-perfect design sold into a customer in Vegas. When it finally did blow up in their faces, they didn’t like the “I told ya so” so I was out in the next group of layoffs.

Don’t mind it too much though, I got hired by an EMC Partner a couple of weeks later, and that’s when the *REAL* work started.

]]> By: jrmckins http://blog.50micron.com/2006/10/25/rpo-vs-rto/comment-page-1/#comment-26 jrmckins Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:39:28 +0000 http://www.sangod.com/?p=33#comment-26 Jesse, I see you were at MTI in 2000. I was there from 2000-2004. Drop me a line. jrmckins@yahoo.com Jim Jesse,
I see you were at MTI in 2000. I was there from 2000-2004. Drop me a line.
jrmckins@yahoo.com
Jim

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