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A customer wants to backup, replicate, de-dupe and encrypt their data without a significant performance hit. They also want seamless storage management, volume management, network management and endpoint security.

They want heterogenous access to Windows, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX and SGI applications. They want unlimited email with no spam and online access without viruses, hoaxes or worms.

I want a toilet seat that heats up when you sit down on it and that’s not going to happen either.

My solution would be to get rid of all data. This whole computer thing was a big mistake. Let’s go back to face-to-face communication. The airline industry could use the help. And the old-fashioned phone companies. No Voice-Over-IP…that is digital data and we will just get back into storing it again.

If you want to store your phone calls, get an answering machine. I like the pnuematic tubes they used to move documents back and forth in the movie Brazil. Very trendy.

When did we get so obsessed with all of these data management layers? It’s just a bunch of zeros and ones. What is the worst thing that could happen if itunes loses my music files or Amazon loses my order? I am trying to figure out the worse case scenario so I can write a book…it’s no where near the potential death and destruction that comes from wrestling an alligator or skydiving.

Granted, I would not have a job if customers didn’t want all of this data protection.

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