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Care to elaborate?
by tekromancr 11y ago
Care to elaborate?
- akamaka 11y agoIt's a thinly diguised reference to EMC, the storage company.
- windsurfer 11y agoI'm guessing EMC
- microcolonel 11y agoCome on, read Extremely Massive Corporation again, and try to think of an Extremely Massive Corporation which happens to deal in computer storage systems.
- aidos 11y agoSome of us aren't in the environment where we'd know who EMC are :-)
- pjc50 11y agoThere was a time when they had adverts on seemingly every page of every computing magazine. Although that may have been back when magazines were a thing and Sun were a hardware company.
- microcolonel 11y agoI'm too young to drink, I figured this reference would work just fine on the GP here... Though the five downvotes I got on my message tell a different story. :-P
- tekromancr 11y agoProps then, mate. I have been in tech for almost a decade now, and I have literally never heard of EMC until now. Probably has something to do with never working in a datacenter, and never doing anything super cray with storage.
- chris_wot 11y agoBelieve me, you are happier for it!
- tootie 11y agoIt's EMC. World's largest supplier of shitty storage hardware.
- Ologn 11y agoYes. The main cause of my beeper going off at 3 AM during the time frame he talks about (early to late 00s) was due to brand new EMC storage hardware continually collapsing under a moderate load, even though the hardware's specs claimed it should have more than adequately handled the load. A load that the three year old, cheaper storage hardware that the EMC unit replaced had handled fine. Like they did, we did not really fix the EMC hardware, we just found ways to work around the problem.