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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @gjacobse
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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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      • DashrenderD
        Dashrender
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        just because?

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @Dashrender
          last edited by

          @Dashrender said:

          just because?

          I'm unclear what this is a question referencing. Or whom.

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
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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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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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              That's great. Upper boss meaning "CIO"?

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
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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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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller
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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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                  • DustinB3403D
                    DustinB3403
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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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                    • DustinB3403D
                      DustinB3403
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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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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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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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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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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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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
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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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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Cool.

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                              • I
                                itsmeagain
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                                Hi guys.. how's your day? going?
                                it's me again 😑

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  Eating breakfast burritos with habañero sauce.

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                                    itsmeagain @scottalanmiller
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                                    @scottalanmiller said:

                                    Eating breakfast burritos with habañero sauce.

                                    lols breakfast? but it's little late i guess

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                                    • scottalanmillerS
                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      We tend to eat pretty late here.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403
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                                        For anyone else looking for some simple reading, I've drafted the different articles into a 16 page PDF.

                                        It can be found here, it's rather simple to review and formatting was done for simplicity.

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                                          itsmeagain
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                                          asking myself if i should eat or drink coffee

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                                          • RojoLocoR
                                            RojoLoco @itsmeagain
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                                            @itsmeagain said:

                                            asking myself if i should eat or drink coffee

                                            You should eat coffee. Drinking coffee is so ordinary.

                                            (Brought to you by the 'punctuation is important' foundation)

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