Last year I went to Share and the Storage Symposium. For me at least the Storage Symposium was of more use. Alot of the Share stuff (I went to the UserBlue segment) focused on operating system and performance things which are not things that I focus on. My job is storage on midrange which is everything from tsm to maintaining our san and sharks. At the Storage Symposium the presentations are storage and backups. The other gain is that you can talk to people that spend alot of time working on storage which for me was a great help. As for the tsm db sessions. For me at least the information was in way too much detail. When they talk about everything you wanted to know it is details like how tables are put together. I am trying to figure out whether to do the storage symposium or the storage networking conference later in the year. Good luck Becky
-----Original Message----- From: Kai Hintze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 11:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Which conference do you recommend? Looking at next year's education budget. My boss says he will send me to one (and only one) conference. The two leading contenders at this time are SHARE (March in Nashville) and the Storage Symposium (August in Salt Lake City). >From people who have been to one or both, which do you recommend and why? Is there another conference I ought to look at?* My job is largely TSM administration, but also a fair amount of general Unix System Admin. Also, does anyone know where I can get information from the two sessions titled "Everything you always wanted to know about TSM Database, parts 1 and 2" in last years Storage Symposium? Thanks, Kai. * I know about the TSM Symposium at Oxford, but I don't think he will spring to send me across the Pond. I also glanced at the Usenix/ACM FAST, but that seems rather more oriented to computer scientists, and less to do with Information Services.
