Posts by K 1568 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Apr 2007
Hi Gostev
Thanks for clarifying. Its a shame the resellers never brought this up, as I was happy Veeam customer and this might have brought Veeam within budget. Unfortunately we had the barrier you highlighted that most of our servers now have 16 to 32 cores and we've since purchased Unitrends.
A/C - Its fine making such a statement, but please provide your hard facts? :)
As I said, I've been working with 3 different Veeam resellers over the past few weeks (Up until the end of July when we decided to jump ship for Unitrends). Also I can provide hard links to posts as recent as 2-3 months ago -
A post from just over 2 months ago - http://forums.veeam.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16658
A post from just over 3 months ago -http://forums.veeam.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=16214
I'll be glad if Veeam have change their licensing.
Hey rpenny
Check your facts - "We still license our products by the number of physical cpu just that now depending on the number of cores within the cpu,"
See this post - http://forums.veeam.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5705
Also A/C - I honestly wish that was the case, I was looking to renew and extend our Veeam licensing a couple of days ago and the quotes I was given were horrific, we've now decided not to renew and will be running with Unitrends. Fact is we have been Veeam customers for 4-5 years and were very happy with their product, but since we started using Veeam they are constantly increase the price and even added the tiered pricing.
As I said, great product, just a shame about the company.
In this article you have managed to confirm my conclusions and sanity check my proposed solution (Unitrends, fyi they have just opened a UK office).. Its a shame this was not published 4 weeks ago, might have saved me days of justifying the reasons and grovelling at the feet of the bean counters.
For to long MySQL has been a drag on Open Source DB development, even before Sun brought it the development and release cycle was way to slow.
But I do disagree with the call for Postgre, reason being I'm sure MySQL has far larger user base that Postgre (that is a personal assumption) and I'm fairly certain Redhat would not want to alienate all those lucrative customers.
Another point that nobody has mentioned, is a couple of years ago Oracle tried to stick it to Redhat by effectively forking the Redhat packages and even offering to sell support for Redhat Enterprise at a cheaper price. Though I doubt this would be a motivator for Redhat to finally show the middle finger ;)
Yeah I'd agree, but I think El Reg meant first commercially Desktop CPU..
Also its good to see some movement in this area, there a lot to be said for 4-8 Core CPUs, but lets face, Ghz grunt power has be stagnant for the past 4-5 years.. I look forward to seeing Intel's response, finally we might see the CPU finally hotting up again.
The companies who employee these people must have a policy of "lets recruit idiots to keep our costs down". The interview goes a little something like this..
Employer: Will you buy your own equipment?
Potential Employee: Yes!
Employer: Mug.. I mean, excellent, your hired!
To be fair though, mobile workforce does have different requirements, if your a road warrior, the last thing you want is to be carrying 2 laptops (1 for work, then 1 for personal use), but I honestly cannot believe this figure is 70%.
I can see some merit to it, but you've missed the most important part, people don't buy expensive tier 1 products mainly for their features. They buy it for the reliability and support.
There have been lots of free alternatives to major storage platforms for a while, think of OpenFiler, Nexenta and certain VSAs. But I personally would not deploy them on our business critical infrastructure. While I could probably fix most problems after a while, but with business critical infrastructure you do not have that luxury of time. So if its deployed on commodity hardware that we built ourselves, which cavalry do you call when the chips are down?
"Education is, and China seems to be doing quite well in that regard"
Your 100% correct and there is little wonder. Its simple, as children get older their school day gets longer, infants may finish at 15:30, but older seniors can be at school until 20:00 to 21:00. Children understand that schooling is the most important part of their life. If they fail, then there is no second chance. They treat education, schools and teachers with the respect it deserves (largely re-inforced by extreme pressure from parents).
Which in many ways is the complete opposite of the West!
I recently migrated the office from Trend Micro to Kaspersky, overall its a much better product. The management interface is well designed and the product works well.. Though be warned don't use the default settings as they are really "high" and will hammer the system, but a little optimisation and it runs like a dream.
Shame about the company in general.
I used to be a loyal Veeam customer, but their customer service and account management is virtually non-existant these days. I've sent numerous emails for different reasons such billing, support and licensing. And I never recieved responses.
After a few months, I gave up, and since switched one of our sites to vRanger, then going forward we'll be switching to Unitrends.
That allows for 8h+ downtime, which is a whole business day. Some businesses can cope with this. But Office in the staple diet of a lot of IT dependent businesses, having this potential level scale of downtime with no recourse is simply not an option. If we had 100 staff, that could effectively leads to the of 100 days worth of many hours.
But like I said, (que Borat) its nice!
Even though Cloud providers sell their products as the future, it appears not enough customers are convinced and people are not jumping to them in the swathes that Cloud evangelists would have people believe.. Thank you el reg, your restoring my faith in humanity!
I would add Cloud has its place and has many benefits. Hopefully this is a sign that the concept of Cloud is finally maturing. But those trying to market and sell it need to be truthful and stop shoveling it into peoples faces as if its a miracle cure for all IT woes and focus on those who will actually benefit from it. .
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