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I'd guess Terabytes.

That's the kind of storage arrays that are ordered at the telcos where I have worked.
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Although I've been a DSLReports member for a long while I just came across this forum. I think I fit here ...

I started in IT in 1965 with an IBM 1401, programming in machine language and then Autocoder. I never could figure out how to get it to divide! I migrated in college to an IBM 1620 and then a 360/65, the largest computer in Connecticut at the time. (256K main memory and 1 MEG additional core memory ... you could peer through the glass and see the actual CORES!!!)

I migrated up through various IBM O/S's including VM/370 ... some of my code made it into various productions versions of VM/370. IBM was willing to incorporate customer's "enhancements" back then. IBM actually distributed the SOURCE with the O/S then which made enhancements lots of fun.

We transitioned off the mainframe in the mid 80's or so onto Novell network systems. That was a really, really fun time.

Currently I'm working in an aerospace company doing infrastructure support. Our platforms are all Solaris running Apache, Sun LDAP Enterprise Directory, MySQL, Embedded Perl. Most of our apps are home-grown in Perl.

I consider myself an advanced Perl programmer but can "speak" many other languages. Does anyone here remember APL, PL/1, REXX, or (very obscure!) Speakeasy!? At one time or another I was pretty good at all of them.

Bill W
Western Connecticut
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Because my previous jobs were all security based and they were tight wads about everything, I never posted.

I work at Sun , Level 2 back line engineer , I fix the problems most of the people can't get repaired , well before we send em to the bug team if I can't fix em.

I support Solaris / Linux / Windows on x64 and high availability Servers E10k 15k 25ks, the heavy iron .

I have been known to roam over into clustering and help out as a Level 2 Engineer.

I know NAS , HA servers , (Global) clustering and touch oracle.

I am currently considering opening my own pc business.

An odd fact, I use open solaris @ home and enjoy it , I hate SUNRAYS ! I don't like my "manager" but love the people in this company.

I have been in IT for 9 years and have done major work with telcos , banks , and retailers.

Here we support all the people who use sun , the largest database I have helped save was a 12 terragig (spelling ?) database that was clustered and mirrored on over 50 nodes. Was a huge task and a team of 4 were involved walking them threw the steps to get all the nodes up without reiniting the disks.
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I am a Information Systems Technician and a Network Diagnostucs Technician here... I do work for a small privately owned Network owned by a close friend and have been in the biz about 11 yrs...

Not Sure if I posted here yet.

I run a small computer consulting company in northern nj(bergen county). I also perform IT duties for my local law enforcement agency.

I have been doing this for about 5 years now. I feel that I still have much to learn.

But I am making some money and making good friends in the process so I will not complain much.

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Systems Support Specialist for a County Government. Work from anywhere dealing with help desk and basic computer support, to servers/networking, to dealing with connections/routers with the State.

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I work for a small consulting company (I was first paid employee) that you've likely not heard of unless you're in the Intel community. This past week I "celebrated" my third anniversary with them.

I'm a "Senior Principal Consultant". This means I do everything form implementation, to assessment, planning and architecture tasks. My work is predominantly post-sales, but with ocassional pre-sales work thrown in. I specialize in data availabilty (e.g., clustering technologies) and protection (primarily replication technologies with some archival technologies thrown in).

When doing implementation work, I work almost exclusively with UNIX-based systems: predominantly Solaris and AIX with a smattering of HP/UX and Linux. Assessment, planning and architecture tasks run the gamut as I have to be familiar with all sorts of hosts - from PCs to mainframes - networking and storage. I travel all across the country and spend >80% of my time on the road.

Prior to my current job, I spent 5 years as an "operations engineer" (basically, a glorified senior UNIX SA position) for a global webhosting provider. Two jobs prior to that were with a storage vendor and a UNIX hardware manufacturer. Been doing the UNIX thing as a hobby since 1989 and as a primary occupation since 1995.
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Work in NJ for a large multinational distribution (manufacturing located in Asia).

Web System Analyst = WebSphere Admin under Windows and RedHat, SQL 2000/2005 DBA, IIS Admin (content delivery servers), of course RedHat (everything including installs) and Windows Admin (someone else does installs). Also, create countless SQL DTS, ftp, vbscript all colminating into batch jobs and even shell scripts. Instructor (mostly RedHat) to boss so I when I am out he doesn't call. We have about 50 prod and dev servers. 10 or so SQL Servers in that mix.

Lastly, that four letter word, keeping documentation up to date.

About seven years or so in this position, previously I was in document imaging system design, testing, training, rollout and support for three years.

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Hi all,

I jumped in to computer support during NT 4.0 and windows 3.1 days.

Currently a Server Engineer in charge of 42 IBM blade servers that boot off a approx. 75tb san (which is almost out of space . Also assist the other 2 engineers here with our Citrix farm publishing apps for our ASP. Our mainstay is Litigation support and Electronic Data Discovery. We are currently owned by a Storage Services company that builds storage are networks.

We are currently doing server consolidation from over 162 different servers down to about a 100. More IBM blades please. We have satellite operations in Eden Prairie,MN, Vancouver,WA, Ventura,CA, White Plains NY , Texas and India.

Can't really tell much more than that due to sensitivity of the data we host.

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I was just thinking to myself, what the site needs is.....and here it is!

I run a company that could best be described as "outsourced I.T". I work primarily with mortgage lenders/brokers. The corporations tend to span several states, but via smaller branch offices of 5-20 employees. Rather than employing an IT department of their own, they contract with us. It's a step above just replacing parts and per job orders, we act as an internal IT department - making software recommendations, establishing protocols, etc.

I have the good fortune to be able to do 80% or more of my work from home, but I have physical offices in 2 states, and on-call staff in 13.
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Systems/Network admin for software/services company. I am the only MIS guy in our office in Toronto, the other 4 are at head office in Montreal. I have about 100 people here and a couple of dozen or so servers.

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Re: Roll CALL!

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Bio tech Industry
I graduated from college in 06 with a website programming degree(wasn't graphic design but weird degree called Internet computing) and wound up working for my fathers company as the computer tech(mainly for work experience). I took a Comptia A+(601, 602) training course for hardware knowledge and might go for the cert soon. Also training in MCSE a bit.

I currently work with windows 2003 server, windows XP/2000 computers and manage all IT related issues including an Avaya IP phone-system. Now that I have some experience in working field I am looking to expand my skills and am looking for a new job(yes people in my company know this and have been very supportive) but I am unsure of what I want to do. I thought of working for IT contractors but I am unsure of what companies to apply to. I have been in contact with alot of IT recruiters that seem to be a waste of time but I am still working with them.

Anyway nice to meet you all.
Jay

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I do Desktop / Network Support for a huge internet company. I have been in this line of work for about 3 years.

I am working on starting a part-time IT support business and will eventually go full-time as a business owner.
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Hello all,

I work for a small Canuck IT company supporting small and medium businesses in a range of industries. How's that for vague?