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by Andrew Garrett on February 2, 2006
Helping Storage Admins Write Bad Checks. - DaveBlog
A Sun employee, an EMC employee and a NetApp employee are all at the funeral of a mutual friend. The Sun employee says, "We have a tradition at Sun. If someone dies, we put ten dollars into their coffin," and he drops in a ten dollar bill.
The EMC employee says, "At EMC our tradition is to put $100 in their coffin," and he pulls a hundred dollar bill out of his wallet.
The NetApp employee says, "A friend like this deserves $1000." He takes out his checkbook, writes a check for $1,110, puts it into the coffin, and grabs the ten and the hundred.
Nothing quite like a little humor on what is generally such a dry subject...
The point is, if you are going to write a check that probably won't be cashed, no need to add money to your bank account. If you are a storage administrator provisioning LUNs that probably won't be fully used, no need to add disks to your storage system.
A nice metaphor, from a man who should know what he's talking about.
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