Monday, June 23, 2008 by Myke.

Well we have been rocking and rolling with this backup solution for a few weks now and it has totally changed how we backup data. the data deduplication that the Exagrid hardware/software does has been amazing.

Check out these stats:

All Data
Deduplication Ration - 3.78:1
Total backup data - 12,441.08GB
Space consumed - 3,292.32GB

Misc Data
Deduplication Ration - 5.81:1
Total backup data - 4,413.62GB
Space consumed - 760.00GB

NAS Data
Deduplication Ration - 3.17:1
Total backup data - 8,027.46GB
Space consumed - 2,532.32GB

Our amount of tapes has dropped by 65% and our backup times are cut down by almost 75%. So now we are saving on backup times, amount of tapes being used and stored off-site and we will have about 12 weeks of backups on-site on hard drive. That means we can do restores from hard drive and in a worst case scenario we can request a tape from 13+ weeks ago.

Next step is to launch this as our remaining sites.

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Monday, June 23, 2008 by Myke.

So according to Al “I need some more McD’s” Gore we are all up the creek and
we better hope we have a paddle. He has said that with scientific proof, Global
Warming is
real and we are all doomed. Really? Really?!? According to his most incredible
and Oscar winning movie, Global Warming can and will strike at any
time. According to Mr. Wizard himself, all of the ice will melt causing all
water levels to rise and flood everyone and everything. Thank god I took those
swim classes back in Minnesota when I was a kid.

Does he not understand that the world was once covered in ICE! When you lost
your bid to become the first “Environmental” President, we all thought and
hoped that the whole Global Warming hype would die with you. But instead you
devoured
millions of dollars of McD’s food and are still promoting your un-proven facts.
I will give you eight reasons why this political scam should be shut down.

1. Most scientists do not believe human activities threaten to disrupt the
Earth’s climate. More than 17,000 scientists have signed a petition circulated
by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine saying, in part, “there
is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide,
methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing or will, in the foreseeable future,
cause catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of
the Earth’s climate.” (Go to www.oism.org for the complete petition
and names of signers.) Surveys of climatologists show similar skepticism.

2. Our most reliable sources of temperature data show no global warming trend.
Satellite readings of temperatures in the lower troposphere (an area scientists
predict would immediately reflect any global warming) show no warming since
readings began 23 years ago. These readings are accurate to within 0.01ºC,
and are consistent with data from weather balloons. Only land-based temperature
stations show a warming trend, and these stations do not cover the entire globe,
are often contaminated by heat generated by nearby urban development, and are
subject to human error.

3. Global climate computer models are too crude to predict future climate
changes. All predictions of global warming are based on computer models, not
historical data. In order to get their models to produce predictions that are
close to their designers’ expectations, modelers resort to “flux
adjustments” that can be 25 times larger than the effect of doubling
carbon dioxide concentrations, the supposed trigger for global warming. Richard
A. Kerr, a writer for Science, says “climate modelers have been ‘cheating’ for
so long it’s almost become respectable.”

4. The IPCC did not prove that human activities are causing global warming.
Alarmists frequently quote the executive summaries of reports from the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations organization, to support their
predictions. But here is what the IPCC’s latest report, Climate Change
2001, actually says about predicting the future climate: “The Earth’s
atmosphere-ocean dynamics is chaotic: its evolution is sensitive to small perturbations
in initial conditions. This sensitivity limits our ability to predict the detailed
evolution of weather; inevitable errors and uncertainties in the starting conditions
of a weather forecast amplify through the forecast. As well as uncertainty
in initial conditions, such predictions are also degraded by errors and uncertainties
in our ability to represent accurately the significant climate processes.”

5. A modest amount of global warming, should it occur, would be beneficial

to the natural world and to human civilization. Temperatures during the Medieval
Warm Period (roughly 800 to 1200 AD), which allowed the Vikings to settle presently
inhospitable Greenland, were higher than even the worst-case scenario reported
by the IPCC. The period from about 5000-3000 BC, known as the “climatic
optimum,” was even warmer and marked “a time when mankind began
to build its first civilizations,” observe James Plummer and Frances
B. Smith in a study for Consumer Alert. “There is good reason to believe
that a warmer climate would have a similar effect on the health and welfare
of our own far more advanced and adaptable civilization today.”

6. Efforts to quickly reduce human greenhouse gas emissions would be costly
and would not stop Earth’s climate from changing. Reducing U.S. carbon
dioxide emissions to 7 percent below 1990’s levels by the year 2012–the
target set by the Kyoto Protocol–would require higher energy taxes and regulations
causing the nation to lose 2.4 million jobs and $300 billion in annual economic
output. Average household income nationwide would fall by $2,700, and state
tax revenues would decline by $93.1 billion due to less taxable earned income
and sales, and lower property values. Full implementation of the Kyoto Protocol
by all participating nations would reduce global temperature in the year 2100
by a mere 0.14 degrees Celsius.

7. Efforts by state governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are even
more expensive and threaten to bust state budgets. After raising their spending
with reckless abandon during the 1990s, states now face a cumulative projected
deficit of more than $90 billion. Incredibly, most states nevertheless persist
in backing unnecessary and expensive greenhouse gas reduction programs. New
Jersey, for example, collects $358 million a year in utility taxes to fund
greenhouse gas reduction programs. Such programs will have no impact on global
greenhouse gas emissions. All they do is destroy jobs and waste money.

8. The best strategy to pursue is “no regrets.” The alternative
to demands for immediate action to “stop global warming” is not
to do nothing. The best strategy is to invest in atmospheric research now and
in reducing emissions sometime in the future if the science becomes more compelling.
In the meantime, investments should be made to reduce emissions only when such
investments make economic sense in their own right.

This strategy is called “no regrets,” and it is roughly what the
Bush administration has been doing. The U.S. spends more on global warming
research each year than the entire rest of the world combined, and American
businesses are leading the way in demonstrating new technologies for reducing
and sequestering greenhouse gas emissions.

The only reason I see that this scam was created was to allow the Environmental
groups to raise billions of dollars, which they have. cause a global scare
that is not backed by any actual facts. Why is it that when a debate is started
about this, these groups can never actually provide proof or factual data?

It is time for us to step up and stop the hype and crush this scam.

I would like to say thanks to the following story for getting me started.
it is very funny and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Florida
Under Water But be careful, Al Gore may use it in his next speech. “Ladies
and gentlemen,
Florida is under water due to Global Warming.” We need to stop
spending money on
Global Warming research and put it towards real issues like
Health Care and my next salary increase.

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