[Infrastructures] re: vintela

[Brian Dunbar]

On Mar 11, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Carlson, Scott wrote:
>
>
> I'm curious about Steve's comments about OpenAFS instead of NFS, 
> especially
> as it relates to SOX.  I don't recall SOX really caring about how you 
> access
> the data, but maybe the security aspect of it is what could come back.
> We're audited against SOX yearly, but it rarely comes down to my level 
> with
> an 'action'.

Second that.  We're hip deep in our SOX effort now - NFS hasn't come up 
as a problem.  I may harbor doubts that the consultants and SOX experts 
know what NFS is, but I will keep them to myself.

>
> Quite a few people have been asking about this because Vintela seems 
> to be
> pretty hot in the 'corporate' space recently.  Maybe I need to write a
> technical implementation 'white paper' thingy.

We're installing it ourselves, for the reasons described.  However, 
I've not had any direct contact with it (yet).  White paper thingys are 
always welcome.

Brian Dunbar
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