John, I was in the middle of replying to you last email and it just disappeared. To all of your first paragraph (If I remember it all) the issue you site are essentially the same (IMO) whether it is CDROM or TAPE. ——————NOW——————————————— I both agree with you and disagree. I will not try and put my issues with my current situation, but will try and see it through my last employers eyes. 1. CDROM I took a spot inventory of about 200 PC's on the floor at the time and not *ONE* had a CDROM/DVD reader. Now I can’t claim it was business wide, but close to.
2. Tape drives were in the computer room and any tapes we got in had to be registered and was given a unique internal serial #. It worked PERIOD. Never were any tapes lost (one did manage to loose the barcode sticker, but it was found with a minimum of mess. From that perspective we found the tape worked best. DVD’s/CDROMS have an affinity to getting lost and you cannot put a sticker on it (on the sleeve yes) but not on the physical device. Just on the above two items I would say keep tape. ————————————————————— From my current situation the same issues occur. Only ours is a lot different as far as security (and again no one in the floors that we own has a cd/dvd reader except for one person) I have not grasped all the issues with my unique situation. Frankly its going to be dicey if this is going to be allowed, So far I have a 2 page bulleted list of issues that are going to have to be revised (either a little or a lot). I am due tomorrow too go see the the “security” person and his group to see what other items I need to address, then next week I have to go into the network peoples office and see if they can come up with anything. Once that is done, my boss’s boss has to appear before a committee (its unclear whether I will be allowed in as it is way higher in security land than I am). Hopefully they will come to a conclusion fast as I don’t know the lead time from the telco for a T1 line and what issues that is going to present, hopefully the network people will have some idea. Outside of the DVD it will be a regular PC with a 5TB drive. The network will have to give upper management that there will be only one way to access the PC and the other conditions that I am not aware of, hopefully the network will work with me. My boss told me not to worry about money because if upper management OK’s it money will be there. Ed ps. My boss doesn’t think this will have a chance, so somehow I have to come up with a backup plan if it doesn’t. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
