Date:         Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:57:17 -0500
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      anyone using MAID?
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I don't know what kind of geeks are paid to think up acronyms like this.
just don't think "... all in a row."

I thought about posting this with:
subject OT: Friday humor

but if you have a mainframe tape archival vault
then you might want to look into this:

DISK AEROBICS(tm) and MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks)

http://itresearch.forbes.com/detail/RES/1129668120_309.html

other keywords: tiered storage, SAN
write-once, read occasionally data, tape library

Ron Fehd  the disk storage maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov