What Are You Doing Right Now
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Taking the kids to the beach. We only have a few days left in Panamá. Will be back in NY by Sunday afternoon!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Taking the kids to the beach. We only have a few days left in Panamá. Will be back in NY by Sunday afternoon!
Wow - doesn't seem like it's been that long since you got there.. But I suppose it's nearing the 90day mark.
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Changing a bit of a 'hack' job I did.
Took some parts from this and that and a pair of boards from Amazon and how have a solar/USB battery charger for some USB devices (phone, GPS, Mi-Fi, MP3 player).
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Documenting, far too much documenting
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@g.jacobse said:
Wow - doesn't seem like it's been that long since you got there.. But I suppose it's nearing the 90day mark.
Because it hasn't
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@g.jacobse said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Taking the kids to the beach. We only have a few days left in Panamá. Will be back in NY by Sunday afternoon!
Wow - doesn't seem like it's been that long since you got there.. But I suppose it's nearing the 90day mark.
34 days
Only in Panamá for just over a month. Have to be in NY on Sunday evening for a meeting and SpiceWorld in Austin. So stuck in the US for September. Then right back to Central America on that Saturday after SpiceWorld is over.
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just because?
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Eating lunch after making my proposal for another solution to virtualization that I was dreadful of giving.
Only because of internal stress, the upper boss loved that I made a separate proposal.
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That's great. Upper boss meaning "CIO"?
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Correct he's also the CFO so when I gave him the rough cost savings in the 25G range (when compared) his eyes widened more than I'd expected.
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Were you also able to explain that cost savings was not even the top value, but delivering a far better solution might outweigh even that huge cost savings?
Double whammy.
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He was ecstatic that I had put in the work to come up with a solution.
You and I know it's better. Just have to have them punch holes into it.
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It was just a very short sit down, I asked for a minute or two of his time, and told him I've been working on a proposal to this question at hand.
And that the proposal I have is built to be far more reliant than the existing proposal, most specifically because of the cost and huge failing point of a single SAN.
The real conversation will likely begin next week.
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@DustinB3403 said:
He was ecstatic that I had put in the work to come up with a solution.
You and I know it's better. Just have to have them punch holes into it.
But as the CFO, I would expect that you have to demonstrate why it is better.
One trick that I know a lot of companies do is print out a few articles on risk mitigation and hand them in as background for business people to understand:
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/06/the-inverted-pyramid-of-doom/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2014/11/the-weakest-link-how-chained-dependencies-impact-system-risk/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2012/08/choosing-a-storage-type/
http://www.smbitjournal.com/2013/06/when-to-consider-a-san/Take those, put them into a nice PDF for him to read too.
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Making a PDF that is nicely formatted with a few articles that talk about risk and best practices can go a long way.
You can point out that while those articles were collected at SMB IT Journal, which is a best practices collection, they are originally from larger publications - mostly Datamation, Small Business Storage Journal and the StorageCraft Blog. All were vetted both by IT pros as well as be publishers and editors.
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Working on drafting them into a well formatted pdf now.
Granted it's 15 pages to read though, but I can cut that down with text formatting.
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Cool.
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Hi guys.. how's your day? going?
it's me again
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Eating breakfast burritos with habañero sauce.
