Fair enough. But I think IBM might be the exception here (TSM is another product that proves it).
Unfortunately, both of these products come at an upfront price that allows other vendors to undercut them *initially*. Of course, if you look years later, products with ILM built in from the start are going to start looking pretty good. Every time we buy new storage, I ask two questions: 1. How are we going to restore it when it fails or someone goofs? 2. How are we going to migrate off it when the time comes to retire it? Every time, we end up with a NAS device where these questions are answered as an afterthought at best, because it's the most cost-effective solution initially. On 05/06/2014 04:57 PM, Ken Bury wrote: > Actually IBM does consider backup and ILM in the GPFS file system. Now with > the new NFS integration features in GPFS V4.1 the errors of your NAS ways > can be corrected. > > kenb...@us.ibm.com -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
