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To: KJ. Moy who wrote (3125)	4/18/2001 12:06:07 AM
From: David A. Lethe	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 4808

KJ - I respectfully disagree with your assessment. Here is the proof. With the advent of the internet, the shops buying most of the FC products today are 24 x 7. There is no longer such a thing as a maintenance window or downtime window. When you say that nobody should be doing configuration management in a normal operating environment, then you are incorrect (or perhaps dating yourself to the late 1990's). So, according to your comment "Nobody should be doing configuration management during a normal operating environment", then you will potentially prevent any 24x7 environment such as visa, brokerage houses, the air traffic system, from operating. In the next 3-4 years, business will have 10X more data then they have today. You don't allow people to add any. Also just saying that the hardware doesn't fail often isn't relative. There is a lot of push from many vendors to go from the 4 9's to 5 9's for reliability and availability. (99.9999 to 99.99999 up time). They are paying big bucks for this as well. At the storagenetworking show last week in Palm Springs, WHICH I ATTENDED, there were several segments on the 5 9's, as well as the 24x7 problem. The person that talked about the new paradigm the most was probably Dan Warmenhoven, CEO of Network Appliance, who delivered the keynote presentation. In fact, I have the slideset. Let me quote him, "data access is the real issue today ... backup windows, reconfiguration windows are unacceptable ... we are in a global 24 x 7 environment ... HP, IBM, SUN, CPQ have all lost storage marketshare, while EMC/NetApps has gained marketshare. That is because of high-availability, and storage management software." But others such as Wayne Richard, CTO of Gadzoox, and Brian Maloney, CEO of AT&T Solutions got into these subjects as well.