What Are You Doing Right Now
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@coliver said:
NYS is really friendly to micro-breweries right now they just passed a bunch of laws giving them tax breaks and not requiring them to meet certain guidelines that other types of facilities do.
Really friendly.... except restricting their access to needed supplies and forcing a law that increases the cost of them to make local production less valuable.
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Taking the kids to the beach. We only have a few days left in Panamá. Will be back in NY by Sunday afternoon!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Taking the kids to the beach. We only have a few days left in Panamá. Will be back in NY by Sunday afternoon!
Wow - doesn't seem like it's been that long since you got there.. But I suppose it's nearing the 90day mark.
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Changing a bit of a 'hack' job I did.
Took some parts from this and that and a pair of boards from Amazon and how have a solar/USB battery charger for some USB devices (phone, GPS, Mi-Fi, MP3 player).
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Documenting, far too much documenting
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@g.jacobse said:
Wow - doesn't seem like it's been that long since you got there.. But I suppose it's nearing the 90day mark.
Because it hasn't
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@g.jacobse said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Taking the kids to the beach. We only have a few days left in Panamá. Will be back in NY by Sunday afternoon!
Wow - doesn't seem like it's been that long since you got there.. But I suppose it's nearing the 90day mark.
34 days
Only in Panamá for just over a month. Have to be in NY on Sunday evening for a meeting and SpiceWorld in Austin. So stuck in the US for September. Then right back to Central America on that Saturday after SpiceWorld is over.
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just because?
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Eating lunch after making my proposal for another solution to virtualization that I was dreadful of giving.
Only because of internal stress, the upper boss loved that I made a separate proposal.
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That's great. Upper boss meaning "CIO"?
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Correct he's also the CFO so when I gave him the rough cost savings in the 25G range (when compared) his eyes widened more than I'd expected.
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Were you also able to explain that cost savings was not even the top value, but delivering a far better solution might outweigh even that huge cost savings?
Double whammy.
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He was ecstatic that I had put in the work to come up with a solution.
You and I know it's better. Just have to have them punch holes into it.
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It was just a very short sit down, I asked for a minute or two of his time, and told him I've been working on a proposal to this question at hand.
And that the proposal I have is built to be far more reliant than the existing proposal, most specifically because of the cost and huge failing point of a single SAN.
The real conversation will likely begin next week.
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@DustinB3403 said:
He was ecstatic that I had put in the work to come up with a solution.
You and I know it's better. Just have to have them punch holes into it.
But as the CFO, I would expect that you have to demonstrate why it is better.
One trick that I know a lot of companies do is print out a few articles on risk mitigation and hand them in as background for business people to understand:
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/06/the-inverted-pyramid-of-doom/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2014/11/the-weakest-link-how-chained-dependencies-impact-system-risk/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/08/choosing-a-storage-type/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/06/when-to-consider-a-san/Take those, put them into a nice PDF for him to read too.
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Making a PDF that is nicely formatted with a few articles that talk about risk and best practices can go a long way.
You can point out that while those articles were collected at SMB IT Journal, which is a best practices collection, they are originally from larger publications - mostly Datamation, Small Business Storage Journal and the StorageCraft Blog. All were vetted both by IT pros as well as be publishers and editors.
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Working on drafting them into a well formatted pdf now.
Granted it's 15 pages to read though, but I can cut that down with text formatting.
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Cool.
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Hi guys.. how's your day? going?
it's me again
