[Ilugc] NAS solution required
- From: raju.rajsand@xxxxxxxxx (Rajagopal Swaminathan)
- Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2013 19:53:27 +0530
Greetings,
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> 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.
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Regards,
Rajagopal
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