Our Sun sales rep has already reported that 75% of the sales force has been let go - which may not be a bad thing... Sun couldn't sell/market themselves out of a wet paper bag.
I have the utmost respect for a large part of their technology portfolio... and they really do (or at least seem to) try hard, but in the last 5 years support, sales, and things in general with them have just degraded.
"..you'll thank yourself later."... or kick yourself later. Don't get me wrong, EMC has certainly made some pretty deep inroads into the SAN marketplace, but they are also working off of technology/ideas/designs that were developed years ago. And while I'm all for tried and true and tested "stuff", I think there are newer, cheaper, better solutions out there. Just because EMC is easy to say, and Dell sells it, doesn't make it right. *grin*
We've had some problems with the EMCs that we have at my workplace - lacking performance, oversold features, limited expandability (which should be expected from the clariion line). Some of this could be alleviated by going the Symmetrix route, but that's a whole lot of coin for what it is, and if you don't need mainframe connectivity, it's just silly. So for one of our latest purchases we tried 3par - http://www.3pardata.com./ They provided more for less, are great to work with, have excellent support, and push some serious throughput. There are some very big institutions letting 3par into their datacenters... and then asking for more.
If you really need petabytes of data, and actually want it available, manageable, and accessible - Look at a disk vendor (something like 3par), don't build it yourself or buy it from Dell.
Everything that you are trying to do has been done already. I'm sure you have some *reasons* for not using Active Directory, but I'm not sure that they are the right reasons. Personally, I'm not a big fan of MS products, but AD *is* slick, and does its job when configured correctly (just like most things). There are even tools out there to get your *nix boxes to work with AD (I use Vintela Authentication Services at my workplace, but there are others) - they aren't that expensive, and they don't require a lot of engineering and administration like some free "solutions" do.
If you have Windows system in your environment, you really want them to run well and not have problems... because fixing design or compatibility problems on that platform can be a real pain. Where as *nix systems can be tinkered with more easily (and *nix admins are more prone to tinker). So picking something like AD ensures that the troublesome side of the house stays quite and the flexible side of the house can adapt.
I work for an internet based payment transfer service. this is an email we received from one of our customers:
Form Message
customer subject: Protections/Privacy/Security; User Agreement; paltalk is hacking computers we found out a lot
customer message: Additional Information: 'on of you sellers paltalk is being used by its man company as a hacking tool and spys on togems and also viruses found from there services bewar for other users safty we have call the fbi to remove them this information has started and is being passed to the government who handle this if you are not in with it fine, but as you know all paltalk named files need to be off our system asap. we will not help a service who hacks
all files will be gone saturday sept 4th any time 5 pm to 12 mid night
if you have any questions let me know by the email you got this message from
i will be the one you want to choke not crystal if i hear of husrasment to crystal from paltalk or any one who is a member of the so called none hacking stytem of paltalk i will be making a visit to all workers and summing them for a court hearings and will be pro longed till i see fit,
because this bull shit is the advertisers has come to a stop right now I have what i need for my team to handle from here and peopel of paltalk sick of the lies they make you all tell in the support room i was a support i know how the lies work and run i been there 2 straight years why do you think i left i found other files that don't belong in users systems then and im dam sure not letting this hapen to people who are blind to the lies that get told
we want a refund on a new nick name we had created due to the finding's of hackable files in our system provided by paltalk.com, we are now on the first level of hi security for a fraud by paltalk. source codes from speak freely was indeed stolen, the souce file also used in the paltalk program are not of the owner, they are of fire talk and speek freely they also have stolen the other plans from other users and companys we also have a screen shot photo of the infeted files paltalk uses in the adds, not only me but a bout 50 users has become anti paltalk users and is going to enforce any company who uses the paltalk name on there system it is advisable you drop there services due to hacks of routers modems users computer systems they will indeed, state this is not happening and that we are just mad, no we are more then mad now its hammer time to close the frauded services down asap. and all usa govern services is getting calls by not only me but also users now in paltalk finding more reasons, there is also audio recorded conversaion of the paltalk staff miss using the the system for quick sex on line, and providing the users of the paltalk system blue name with out pay at all, the paltalk staff have been miss using the law and we tend to take any one who is in use of paltalk and provideing some of there services for them. they have slandered our name one last time tring to dicourage my partner who dose linux stuff for us and offers the linux support to our users, they have repetedly tried to steal the linux script that the partner has made for linux users tring to claim copy rights to them. well they will not be getting this due to the slander of us. and the findings of what we found along side government workers who deal with this kind of thing.
and this is my statment to all who have messed with my sister in a bad way if you also are not in with it dont worrie about it we will now cover it from here
ok boys and girls one by one you messed
with my sister crystal. now the games will start.
you have trogen in system 32 file a file called drop,
ha well now if you want, we can play all night
i have indeed contacted the fbi on paltalk
and all co admins for exploiting and forceable sex to provide blue names,
The number of people at Mineral boggles the mind! The number people in my building never gets above 30 at one time, so I dont think my situation will really apply. Also, I am a grade-5:)
As far as the lawsuit goes, im sure the motivation behind the cutbacks wasnt to destroy themselves and provide bad service. I somehow doubt that USW is in a plot to make themselves the worst company they can. If you have more information on that lawsuit i would love to see it.
Sure, its real easy to remember and preach about all of the bad things that U S WEST has done because its the bad things that stick out in your head. What about all of the thousands of days that you picked up your phone and you had dial-tone or recieved yet another email at your uswest.net email account?
Granted, there are some times that USW had really fscked up but everybody has to fsck every once and a while (at least once every 20 mounts:) And the times when they are really needed, like during all of the fires that have been raging lately or during some of those wonderful midwestern storms, you always seem to have DT or inet access.
And its not uper management or even management that screws things up or gives a directive to screw the customer. Its all of those old bell heads that are used to telling people "ill get to you when i feel like it, and if i dont youre out of luck". Management of any level wants the business to succeed, that is why they are there and the only way to get business to succeed is to make the customer happy. And guess what, its easy to make the customer happy if they arent already pissed off. So dont start off your call to USW/Q with "You MFers F'ed up my dsl connection again. you had better F'in fix it or ill go to X provider" Of course they arent going to be "happy" to help you cause you just came off looking like an Ahole.
I say again, U S WEST has screwed up their fair share of times. Even though I work for USW i still have problems getting things done or circuits ordered for my division. They ARE trying to change things and this deal may be just the thing to help out. With Qwests HUGE backbone and U S WESTs local networks and (v)dsl things could be really sweet.
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Our Sun sales rep has already reported that 75% of the sales force has been let go - which may not be a bad thing... Sun couldn't sell/market themselves out of a wet paper bag.
I have the utmost respect for a large part of their technology portfolio... and they really do (or at least seem to) try hard, but in the last 5 years support, sales, and things in general with them have just degraded.
"..you'll thank yourself later." ... or kick yourself later. Don't get me wrong, EMC has certainly made some pretty deep inroads into the SAN marketplace, but they
are also working off of technology/ideas/designs that were developed years ago. And while I'm all for tried and true and tested "stuff", I think there are newer, cheaper, better solutions out there. Just because EMC is easy to say, and Dell sells it, doesn't make it right. *grin*
We've had some problems with the EMCs that we have at my workplace - lacking performance, oversold features, limited expandability (which should be expected from the clariion line). Some of this could be alleviated by going the Symmetrix route, but that's a whole lot of coin for what it is, and if you don't need mainframe connectivity, it's just silly. So for one of our latest purchases we tried 3par - http://www.3pardata.com./ They provided more for less, are great to work with, have excellent support, and push some serious throughput. There are some very big institutions letting 3par into their datacenters... and then asking for more.
If you really need petabytes of data, and actually want it available, manageable, and accessible - Look at a disk vendor (something like 3par), don't build it yourself or buy it from Dell.
Everything that you are trying to do has been done already. I'm sure you have some *reasons* for not using Active Directory, but I'm not sure that they are the right reasons. Personally, I'm not a big fan of MS products, but AD *is* slick, and does its job when configured correctly (just like most things). There are even tools out there to get your *nix boxes to work with AD (I use Vintela Authentication Services at my workplace, but there are others) - they aren't that expensive, and they don't require a lot of engineering and administration like some free "solutions" do.
If you have Windows system in your environment, you really want them to run well and not have problems... because fixing design or compatibility problems on that platform can be a real pain. Where as *nix systems can be tinkered with more easily (and *nix admins are more prone to tinker). So picking something like AD ensures that the troublesome side of the house stays quite and the flexible side of the house can adapt.
I work for an internet based payment transfer service. this is an email we received from one of our customers:
Form Message
customer subject: Protections/Privacy/Security; User Agreement; paltalk
is hacking computers we found out a lot
customer message: Additional Information: 'on of you sellers paltalk is
being used by its man company as a hacking tool and spys on togems and
also viruses found from there services bewar for other users safty we
have call the fbi to remove them this information has started and is
being passed to the government who handle this if you are not in with it
fine, but as you know all paltalk named files need to be off our system
asap. we will not help a service who hacks
all files will be gone saturday sept 4th any time 5 pm to 12 mid night
if you have any questions let me know by the email you got this message
from
i will be the one you want to choke not crystal if i hear of husrasment
to crystal from paltalk or any one who is a member of the so called none
hacking stytem of paltalk i will be making a visit to all workers and
summing them for a court hearings and will be pro longed till i see fit,
because this bull shit is the advertisers has come to a stop right now I
have what i need for my team to handle from here and peopel of paltalk
sick of the lies they make you all tell in the support room i was a
support i know how the lies work and run i been there 2 straight years
why do you think i left i found other files that don't belong in users
systems then and im dam sure not letting this hapen to people who are
blind to the lies that get told
we want a refund on a new nick name we had created due to the finding's
of hackable files in our system provided by paltalk.com, we are now on
the first level of hi security for a fraud by paltalk. source codes from
speak freely was indeed stolen, the souce file also used in the paltalk
program are not of the owner, they are of fire talk and speek freely
they also have stolen the other plans from other users and companys we
also have a screen shot photo of the infeted files paltalk uses in the
adds, not only me but a bout 50 users has become anti paltalk users and
is going to enforce any company who uses the paltalk name on there
system it is advisable you drop there services due to hacks of routers
modems users computer systems they will indeed, state this is not
happening and that we are just mad, no we are more then mad now its
hammer time to close the frauded services down asap. and all usa govern
services is getting calls by not only me but also users now in paltalk
finding more reasons, there is also audio recorded conversaion of the
paltalk staff miss using the the system for quick sex on line, and
providing the users of the paltalk system blue name with out pay at all,
the paltalk staff have been miss using the law and we tend to take any
one who is in use of paltalk and provideing some of there services for
them. they have slandered our name one last time tring to dicourage my
partner who dose linux stuff for us and offers the linux support to our
users, they have repetedly tried to steal the linux script that the
partner has made for linux users tring to claim copy rights to them.
well they will not be getting this due to the slander of us. and the
findings of what we found along side government workers who deal with
this kind of thing.
and this is my statment to all who have messed with my sister in a bad
way if you also are not in with it dont worrie about it we will now cover it from here
ok boys and girls one by one you messed
with my sister crystal. now the games will start.
you have trogen in system 32 file a file called drop,
ha well now if you want, we can play all night
i have indeed contacted the fbi on paltalk
and all co admins for exploiting and
forceable sex to provide blue names,
The number of people at Mineral boggles the mind! :)
The number people in my building never gets above 30 at one time, so I dont think my situation will really apply. Also, I am a grade-5
As far as the lawsuit goes, im sure the motivation behind the cutbacks wasnt to destroy themselves and provide bad service. I somehow doubt that USW is in a plot to make themselves the worst company they can. If you have more information on that lawsuit i would love to see it.
Sure, its real easy to remember and preach about all of the bad things that U S WEST has done because its the bad things that stick out in your head. What about all of the thousands of days that you picked up your phone and you had dial-tone or recieved yet another email at your uswest.net email account?
:) And the times when they are really needed, like during all of the fires that have been raging lately or during some of those wonderful midwestern storms, you always seem to have DT or inet access.
Granted, there are some times that USW had really fscked up but everybody has to fsck every once and a while (at least once every 20 mounts
And its not uper management or even management that screws things up or gives a directive to screw the customer. Its all of those old bell heads that are used to telling people "ill get to you when i feel like it, and if i dont youre out of luck". Management of any level wants the business to succeed, that is why they are there and the only way to get business to succeed is to make the customer happy. And guess what, its easy to make the customer happy if they arent already pissed off. So dont start off your call to USW/Q with "You MFers F'ed up my dsl connection again. you had better F'in fix it or ill go to X provider" Of course they arent going to be "happy" to help you cause you just came off looking like an Ahole.
I say again, U S WEST has screwed up their fair share of times. Even though I work for USW i still have problems getting things done or circuits ordered for my division. They ARE trying to change things and this deal may be just the thing to help out. With Qwests HUGE backbone and U S WESTs local networks and (v)dsl things could be really sweet.