SharePoint, StoragePoint, and SharePoint Storage Management

Mark Brazeau (...the guy that started BlueThread with me almost 4 years ago) and the one who runs the StoragePoint business unit here at Metalogix got a new toy (...never seen anybody so excited about a camera before) early last week and wanted to try it out.  He's been wanting to get me and Chris on camera talking about our offering and how we see things for a while now and while I've been open to the idea the opportunity didn't present itself until last week when Chris was in town from Chicago...cue Mark and his new camera.  The result was some very lightly staged, but completely unscripted talk between Chris and I about what we do and how we do it. 

We do get into our thinking and approach more than most ISVs would, so some that view these will ultimately proclaim, "What are they thinking?". One of our sales guys saw a couple of these clips yesterday and wondered "is it wise to publish our playbook", to which I replied "you can have the other team's playbook, but if you don't have the talent to execute it then it's just a book full of meaningless X's and O's".  Another asked why we were giving up the secret sauce, to which I replied "everyone knows it's Thousand Island Dressing".  I firmly believe that the StoragePoint wanna-be's out there don't have teams good enough to execute our playbook and/or can't mix-up a good batch of the secret sauce even if they had the recipe...I can make a mean New York style pizza and can give you the recipe for that, but if you don't use San Marzano tomatoes in the sauce and you don't take enough time to knead the dough or let it proof then it's not going to be good.  It would be like replacing .NET with Java or Focus with "We've got an App for that"...it's not going to be good eats. Besides, these other guys have all used creative means to get access to our bits and copy-cat our features. Some have even gone as far as copying content from our website, verbatim, to their own.  We can spend a bunch of time trying to stop them from copying and stealing from us or we can spend that time earning the innovation award we got at SPC09...making sure they are always at least one reverse-engineered release behind us.  When y'all see StoragePoint 3.0 next Monday it will be clear where we're investing our time.

So onto the videos...

We loaded the videos into a playlist on YouTube.  You can view the playlist here: http://bit.ly/at5W5I

You can play the entire playlist starting with the 1st video here: http://bit.ly/9uNM9k

StoragePoint 3.0 Information

• Contact us at info@storagepoint.com if you have any questions or would like to request access to the Release Candidate.  We will not issue pre-release trials without full corporate contact information (Name, Title, Company, Address, Phone Number, and Email Address).
• Attend one of our weekly StoragePoint 3.0 Overview sessions.
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