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NetApp stands upon the threshold of long-held ambition: having its view of storage taught in Australian tertiary institutions. The company expressed an interest in doing so in 2011, when your correspondent worked for another outlet and heard NetApp's-then-Australian-MD Peter O'Connor (late of Nimble Storage) express a desire …

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  1. zenmaster

    Non-Netapp specific?

    Great idea, but just like the (Alcatel?) telco sponsored TAFE courses of the 90's, shouldn't this focus on vendor-agnostic lesson's like what an hba is, the fabric etc (something along the lines of SNIA maybe?), rather than what OnTAP version XX does currently. Netapp might be around, but probably not as much they'd like, and if you stick to one vendor it only makes for a myopic skill set, not to mention if they go out of business.

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    1. Dave Brooks
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      Re: Non-Netapp specific?

      As someone involved in this program, the fundamentals of Storage Area Networks are taught first. Then we look at some of the NetApp specific tech.

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