Greetings, On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rajagopal, with all due respect storage @ 200TB requires a different > dimension of IT enterprise infrastructure and expertise. I am sure > you will agree that putting it together is not the main thing.
Completely thoroughly agree with you. I have been a team member in similar projects in the past. and I have seen "saas-bahu" issues of "ownership", fight over anonymity, credit taking, lack of the overall project and the such. Afterall, many such solutions are existing and working for a long time as I know. And most of them are run by Indians -- either in India or abroad. And I was probing if anybody ever answers to the posers. And as I expected, except you, it seems all the CS PhDs in the educational institution of india are obliviously unaware of the situation and none care. Let them issue me a death threat for making such a statement. After all they have never been to industry and they have never seen real world. They are all holed up in their nice wormholes waiting for next freebies. As to Enterpreuners, they just do not have the exposure to anything enterprise size. As for business owners, they think IT is cost. As for SMBs, they want freebies. As for panybody thinking of *any* product development in Inida, they are heading for severe depression. Sorry to sound cynical. but that is the state of affairs I will just reveal this much to the size of one of the project I was a mere team member: x petabytes of SAN, ~5k tape library, over 80 servers and god knows how many copper network switches and directors. nuff said. Fine we are not in a position to make all of these, but we should be in a position to integrate these at least with confidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_storage_management http://ohsm.sourceforge.net/ > It is > the recovery in "What if ....... happens?" > Exactly, Where is the "enquiring mind" which takes risks and where are those who are ready to back them -- financially and otherwise say to get few alpha and beta customers? The Indian mind has to look not only ahead and upwards, or doller will shoot them down. Where is the spirit of jugaad? Who was one of Sun's, Gupta, GT.M database, founders? When I started career, APLAB dared to UPS and it is still a leading brand. Of course no one single company can do that. ut I was suggesting a consortium which takes responsibility as a whole and each module's responsibilty is taken by at least two members (no SPOF). Of couse one can say that the consortium itself can be a SPOF. But at least think at that level. How otherwise the opensource could have come into being? how could have samba be born? how could have postygresql be born, how could have apache be born? I am an optimist. I was just mentioning a dream which is realisable. > Up to 10-20 TB, I feel comfortable rolling my own. > Considering what I have said above, 10-20TB should be kid's play. I think this list members should be widen and deepen its vision than designing website and worrying about checkboxes and semicolons. Above of course IMHO. No hard feelings towards anyone. -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
