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Dantz aquired by EMC
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| Dantz was recently aquired by EMC.
I called Dantz yesterday to ask a question and they answered the
phone: "Dantz/EMC..."
Better buy your copies of Retrospect now, before EMC hikes the price
for their investors! (Bad takeover! Bad!)
(please excuse the burp when replying)
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| Jim Sherman 2004-10-27, 5:46 pm |
| On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:02:56 GMT, Jaz <harbell@beerburp.com> wrote:
>Dantz was recently aquired by EMC.
>I called Dantz yesterday to ask a question and they answered the
>phone: "Dantz/EMC..."
>Better buy your copies of Retrospect now, before EMC hikes the price
>for their investors! (Bad takeover! Bad!)
>(please excuse the burp when replying)
At least EMC makes a good and well supported product, unlike some
others frequently mentioned here. One of the happiest days in my
professional career was when we replaced all our IBM drives
(basketball court in area) with two little EMC phone booth sized
drives. And they never went down, and they ran twice as fast.
Perhaps the less-than-stellar Dantz user interface will become user
friendly.
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| >>Dantz was recently aquired by EMC.
>At least EMC makes a good and well supported product, unlike some
>others frequently mentioned here. One of the happiest days in my
>professional career was when we replaced all our IBM drives
>(basketball court in area) with two little EMC phone booth sized
>drives. And they never went down, and they ran twice as fast.
>Perhaps the less-than-stellar Dantz user interface will become user
>friendly.
Wow, you're in a whole different league than us. No more silo farms!
Dantz certainly has some limitations, but at ~$600 for Multiserver +
unlim clients...
And due to Retrospect's poor interface, and NovaNET's lack of Mac, I
posted a query "server=Debian clients=Win/Lin/Mac ...", to which
somebody replied http://www.bacula.org , which I'm now inverstigating
(please excuse the burp when replying)
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| Jim Sherman 2004-10-27, 5:46 pm |
| On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:49:31 GMT, Jaz <harbell@beerburp.com> wrote:
>Wow, you're in a whole different league than us. No more silo farms!
Not since I retired. By going to the EMC drives we actually put off a
mainframe (processor & memory) upgrade for over a year and saved money
doing it. I love the little buggers. They went from an average
response time of about 35 ms (IBM - with a failure rate of about .5 a
month) to less than 9 ms (EMC with a failure rate of .000000 a month).
It lost a drive or two and a power supply once, but it never went
down. The thing kept going without the drive, due to its' RAID setup
and the power supply had a backup, too. We discovered the drive
failure when the repair guy showed up with a replacement drive. It
had called home and our operator hadn't noticed.
>Dantz certainly has some limitations, but at ~$600 for Multiserver +
>unlim clients...
BTW, I got my single user copy of Dantz Retrospect bundled with my
external Maxtor USB/Firewire drive. Free (sort of).
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