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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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      @Dashrender said:

      just because?

      I'm unclear what this is a question referencing. Or whom.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
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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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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          That's great. Upper boss meaning "CIO"?

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403
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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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            • scottalanmillerS
              scottalanmiller
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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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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403
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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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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403
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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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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    @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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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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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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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
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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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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller
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                          Cool.

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                            itsmeagain
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                            Hi guys.. how's your day? going?
                            it's me again 😑

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
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                              Eating breakfast burritos with habañero sauce.

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                                itsmeagain @scottalanmiller
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                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                Eating breakfast burritos with habañero sauce.

                                lols breakfast? but it's little late i guess

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
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                                  We tend to eat pretty late here.

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                                  • DustinB3403D
                                    DustinB3403
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                                    For anyone else looking for some simple reading, I've drafted the different articles into a 16 page PDF.

                                    It can be found here, it's rather simple to review and formatting was done for simplicity.

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                                      itsmeagain
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                                      asking myself if i should eat or drink coffee

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                                      • RojoLocoR
                                        RojoLoco @itsmeagain
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                                        @itsmeagain said:

                                        asking myself if i should eat or drink coffee

                                        You should eat coffee. Drinking coffee is so ordinary.

                                        (Brought to you by the 'punctuation is important' foundation)

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                                          itsmeagain @RojoLoco
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                                          @RojoLoco said:

                                          @itsmeagain said:

                                          asking myself if i should eat or drink coffee

                                          You should eat coffee. Drinking coffee is so ordinary.

                                          (Brought to you by the 'punctuation is important' foundation)
                                          ahhhh hahahaa I'm just a silly, cranky IT guy today..
                                          😑 😏

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                                          • DashrenderD
                                            Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                                            @scottalanmiller said:

                                            @Dashrender said:

                                            just because?

                                            I'm unclear what this is a question referencing. Or whom.

                                            This question was in response to you saying you were going back to Panama the Sunday after SpiceWorld.

                                            Why are you moving all over the place? and I might as well ask, how is it that you can afford to do this, I'd love to follow suit, though I'm sure my wife wouldn't be up for it.. and her career choice (classroom teacher, not so much online) would allow for it.

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