{"id":316,"date":"2006-07-21T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=316"},"modified":"2006-07-21T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-21T12:58:00","slug":"316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/21\/316\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">A small problem at a vendor, can cause a big headache for NAS and SAN  customers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When a critical part of your data infrastructure is broken and your customers are unable to get their  crucial data, your business can suffer lost sales and lowered revenues. And as a System Administrator you may lose your job! Which is why  SA&#8217;s listen to the recommendations of their vendors&#8217; Technical Engineers so closely when making architecture decisions. When a critical part is made by a vendor where former executives are accused of fraud, you may have to start considering how to rebuild and architect your storage infrastructure. Network Appliance has a long and fruitful relationship with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2006\/07\/21\/share_options_fraud\/\"> Brocade,<\/a> and many of our customers are wedded to the Brocade switches they have. But what will happen if <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byteandswitch.com\/document.asp?doc_id=99531&amp;WT.svl=news1_3\">Brocade <\/a>collapses in the next 24 months? Who will support the hardware, software and firmware on these switches? What are your alternatives as a user if a critical component is no longer supported.<\/p>\n<p>These are questions to think about, we all hope that Brocade overcomes its problems. Your vendor&#8217;s Executive decisions  can have long term consequences for your critical storage infrastructure. In a highly integrated global  economy a small disruption  at a switch manufacturer may impact all of us.<\/p>\n<p>Just something to think about.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-115348758951334963?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small problem at a vendor, can cause a big headache for NAS and SAN customers. When a critical part of your data infrastructure is broken and your customers are unable to get their crucial data, your business can suffer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2006\/07\/21\/316\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}