Stealth Start Up NAS appliance company with a clever way to scale NAS
storage to deal with data migration and global name space issue is
looking for NAS admins for a Focus Group in Portola Valley on April
5th.

Reply to this email with your relevant experience.

Ideal background for participants would be as follows:

Specific primary and near-line storage administrative experience using
hardware from the following vendors: Network Appliance, Spinnaker,
BlueArc, EMC, SUN or Microsoft Windows based filers is a requirement.

Participants must have a thorough understanding of CIFS and NFS and
RAID devices.

Storage environment must have a large number of users/multiple TBs of
NAS storage and have 10 or more NAS devices managed at your location.

Participants must have experience scaling NAS across multiple filers
including name space partitioning and file migration. Participants who
have insights into current methods as well as proposed methods such as
clustered or distributed file systems and to scale NAS with a single
global name space from both incumbent and start up vendors would
strongly be preferred.

Participants with hands on administrative experience with storage
applications experience for snap-shotting, back up and restore,
mirroring, information life cycle management, charge-back, quota
management, storage virtualization and resource management and remote
replication for Disaster Recovery a plus. Home grown scripting tools to
accomplish similar results would be great.

Administrative experience with Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Veritas
NetBackup a plus.

Candidates with access to performance testing facilities and who have
been involved in beta testing new storage technologies in the past will
be given higher priority.

Must be willing to participate in on-site discussion in the evening.

Must be willing to participate in the entire 90 minute discussion.

$150 Honoraria will be given to each participant. Food will be served.




Compensation: $150

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Has anyone replied to this guy?  I'd be interested to hear if he's on
the up and up.

~F


On 18 Mar 2005 11:20:21 -0800, "NAS Focus Group Leader"
<thomas.garland@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:

>Stealth Start Up NAS appliance company with a clever way to scale NAS
>storage to deal with data migration and global name space issue is
>looking for NAS admins for a Focus Group in Portola Valley on April
>5th.
>
>Reply to this email with your relevant experience.
>
>Ideal background for participants would be as follows:
>
>Specific primary and near-line storage administrative experience using
>hardware from the following vendors: Network Appliance, Spinnaker,
>BlueArc, EMC, SUN or Microsoft Windows based filers is a requirement.
>
>Participants must have a thorough understanding of CIFS and NFS and
>RAID devices.
>
>Storage environment must have a large number of users/multiple TBs of
>NAS storage and have 10 or more NAS devices managed at your location.
>
>Participants must have experience scaling NAS across multiple filers
>including name space partitioning and file migration. Participants who
>have insights into current methods as well as proposed methods such as
>clustered or distributed file systems and to scale NAS with a single
>global name space from both incumbent and start up vendors would
>strongly be preferred.
>
>Participants with hands on administrative experience with storage
>applications experience for snap-shotting, back up and restore,
>mirroring, information life cycle management, charge-back, quota
>management, storage virtualization and resource management and remote
>replication for Disaster Recovery a plus. Home grown scripting tools to
>accomplish similar results would be great.
>
>Administrative experience with Microsoft Exchange, SQL and Veritas
>NetBackup a plus.
>
>Candidates with access to performance testing facilities and who have
>been involved in beta testing new storage technologies in the past will
>be given higher priority.
>
>Must be willing to participate in on-site discussion in the evening.
>
>Must be willing to participate in the entire 90 minute discussion.
>
>$150 Honoraria will be given to each participant. Food will be served.
>
>
>
>
>Compensation: $150

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I would be happy to talk to you if you were interested.  We are a start
up company in stealth mode about to launch a product.  Figured we
actually show it to some smart people before we launch it publically.
Thanks
Tom
thomas.garland@stanfordalumni.org

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On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 02:36:21 GMT, Faeandar wrote:

>Has anyone replied to this guy?  I'd be interested to hear if he's on
>the up and up.

Shame on you for top-posting!  ;-P

Had I been local, I would have been really tempted to go along... at
least to check it out and hopefully offer some input.

You never know where the next big thing is going to come from.
Unfortunately, for me, it's been a few years since I was a regular in
the South Bay area.

HVB.

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