The Symantec Backup Exec development team will be doing an Reddit AMaA tomorrow, Fri 17 Oct at 1.00 EDT
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 @ajstringham do you mean outsourced, like to an MSP, or do you mean offshored like to another country? I suspect that it is offshored, that's expected. Outsourced is possible, but unlikely, for a company of that size. 
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 @ajstringham said: Yeah, but quite a few cases of all the same comments. True, but that's how support issues would look whether it is a small volume or a large one. So that isn't a great indicator. 
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 @scottalanmiller said: @ajstringham do you mean outsourced, like to an MSP, or do you mean offshored like to another country? I suspect that it is offshored, that's expected. Outsourced is possible, but unlikely, for a company of that size. Offshored. 
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 @scottalanmiller said: @ajstringham said: Yeah, but quite a few cases of all the same comments. True, but that's how support issues would look whether it is a small volume or a large one. So that isn't a great indicator. I'm just saying that I haven't seen that kind of rebuttal about Unitrends or StorageCraft. 
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 @ajstringham said: I'm just saying that I haven't seen that kind of rebuttal about Unitrends or StorageCraft. That's true, but have you seen them do an AMA and are you considering that they are a fraction of the size? Just keep perspective. I'm not saying that anyone is better or worse, just the context that you have doesn't give you any means of drawing a conclusion. 
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 @scottalanmiller said: @ajstringham said: I'm just saying that I haven't seen that kind of rebuttal about Unitrends or StorageCraft. That's true, but have you seen them do an AMA and are you considering that they are a fraction of the size? Just keep perspective. I'm not saying that anyone is better or worse, just the context that you have doesn't give you any means of drawing a conclusion. Fair enough. 
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 It's the curse of large companies. Once you get to a certain size you have more than enough unhappy customers (or people with a reason to make you look bad) that will be vocal in any setting that you just always have them no matter what you do. No way to be a huge company without that happening. 
