I had high hopes for that group, but apart from a very few I trust and know either professionally or personally, I would be careful. The quality of the advice is very sales and marketing oriented, and the number of storage admins with any qualifications or experience is low.

And to echo Fred's point, the s/n ratio is a very small number. Quality it ain't.

Is there a broad interest from this group in something like a discussion list? There's a SNIA Cloud Storage Google Groups list that operates as an open list; take a look there.

Please let me know if something like that would work. I chair a couple of SNIA groups, and I'm sure I can get this to happen if there's interest.


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From: Fred Grieco [mailto:fredgrieco@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 06:41 AM
To: Adam Levin <levins0@gmail.com>; Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com>
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.net>
Subject: Re: [OT] General Purpose Storage Discussion
 
The storage groups on Linked In get pretty good discussions from time-to-time.  There's a lot of noise and headhunters, though.


From: Adam Levin <levins0@gmail.com>
To: Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com>
Cc: toasters@teaparty.net
Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 8:56 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] General Purpose Storage Discussion

I'm not sure about SNIA, but I know there have been plenty of discussions on the tech lists for SAGE and LOPSA related to storage, so that's certainly a good place to start.

-Adam


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com> wrote:
This list is great -- but obviously is NetApp centric.  I'm wondering
if any of you can recommend a mailing list or forum, with a similar
level of participation and expertise, that's a bit more "general
purpose" but still storage-centric.

Something similar to the SAGE/LISA mailing lists for Systems
Administration.  Perhaps SNIA offers such discussion groups to its
members?

Thanks,
Ray
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