-by Ian Selway
Isn't it amazing, it seems the IT industry couldn't survive without the use of TLAs (AKA: three letter acronyms). Here at HP, we're renowned for our liberal use of TLAs and I often heard the myth that there's some compendium of them handed out as part of the orientation program to help new employees understand what everyone's discussing in the meetings they attend. Well now not only do we have all those TLAs to contend with, but we also now have to understand the differences the same three letters carry when used by different companies. In HP, and across storage generally, for a long time SRM meant Storage Resource Management. Now those of us working in the area of virtualization are coming to grips with a new meaning.... VMware's SRM or Site Recovery Manager. |
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