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Tech/Engineering | | English term or phrase: total administration standpoint | storage systems selling issues:
Scalable is the word here for SMB customers. Several XXX units are outlined on this particular page. They can be scaled from 4 turbytes to 16 turbytes of data (more than enough for an average SMB customer). If needed, we can configure more than one of these units for the beginning of a disaster tolerance plan for the customer: a building block, if you will. XXX Storage Manager software is a storage management tool that provides storage administration and ease of management for these external storage resources. ***This enables the customer’s IT staff, from a total administration standpoint, to minimise the impact or configure or manage their data for the customer.
I am having troubles translating the whole last sentence:
I am very much ashamed, but can you confirm that "total administration standpoint" here means "from a global administration viewpoint"?
also, "impact" on what? if I don't say something after impact the sentence does not make sense in Italian...
finally, customer is mentioned twice in the last sentence, is it the same customer, or the customer's customer?? remember that this text is spoken language, so it is often imprecise (comments to slide presentation)
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| | English translation:This gives the customer's IT staff to control over ... | Explanation:
This gives the customer's IT staff total control over all system administration functions. It therefore reduces (minimises) the administration difficulies associated with external storage. It also enables them (customer's IT staff) to configue and manage the storage's administrative data (not the user's application data) on behalf of the end user (that's what they mean by the last reference to customer, the end user need only understand their application not how to manage and configure the storage).
BTW, I have not heard of turbytes, this is probably terabytes, see link below.
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Note added at 44 mins (2003-10-06 19:18:37 GMT)
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My explanation implies that \"impact\" means \"administration difficulies associated with external storage\". You are dealing with doublespeak in a big way. Refer to my previous comment on \"easy deployment\", in particular here is the section that explains what you see here:
\" Note added at 5 hrs 25 mins (2003-10-05 04:15:50 GMT)
A note on whether it means ease of use. Clearly most of the answers, including mine, point in a different direction. I also can confirm that it does not mean ease of use. While centralized storage bring (or \"brings\" is a topic for another discussion) several functional and efficiency benefits, but at a cost, part of the cost is that they are complex to manage. Vendors and third party software vendors typically provide management tools and GUI\'s for managing these conglomerates, otherwise only the very high end customers would find them usable. But you still need highly technical system admin staff. So in summary, it does not mean easy to use.\"
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Note added at 47 mins (2003-10-06 19:20:48 GMT)
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The customer here includes the cutomer\'s IT staff and the customer\'s end user. Where the IT staff are mentioned, they are mentioned explicitly, but the end user is just referred to as \"the customer\".
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Note added at 51 mins (2003-10-06 19:25:24 GMT)
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The title of the answer should say ... total control over ..
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Note added at 1 hr 0 min (2003-10-06 19:33:43 GMT)
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Disaster tolerance is not what the word impact refers to. It is a red herring in this case. Disaster tolerance is listed as one of three benefits, namely scalability, disaster tolerance, and management tools.
DT is a high availability feature where a company would have systems in at least two geographically separate sites linked by a WAN. One system is live and the other is a standby system that gets periodical updates from the live system. If the live system is struck by fire, hurricane, or other disaster, the standby system is then kicked into actin and goes live. There are three categories of DT systems, campus, metro, and continental. |
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9 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 comprehensive administration standpoint
Explanation:
impact (here) = disturbance
I think the customer is the same here, unless they are speaking about an IT outsourcer provider.
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9 mins confidence: overall management; management of the entire process
Explanation:
impact of a disaster (as in disaster tolerance)'
same customer... it is the customer's IT (customer being company X) staff managing data for company X
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36 mins confidence: This gives the customer's IT staff to control over ...
Explanation:
This gives the customer's IT staff total control over all system administration functions. It therefore reduces (minimises) the administration difficulies associated with external storage. It also enables them (customer's IT staff) to configue and manage the storage's administrative data (not the user's application data) on behalf of the end user (that's what they mean by the last reference to customer, the end user need only understand their application not how to manage and configure the storage).
BTW, I have not heard of turbytes, this is probably terabytes, see link below.
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Note added at 44 mins (2003-10-06 19:18:37 GMT)
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My explanation implies that \"impact\" means \"administration difficulies associated with external storage\". You are dealing with doublespeak in a big way. Refer to my previous comment on \"easy deployment\", in particular here is the section that explains what you see here:
\" Note added at 5 hrs 25 mins (2003-10-05 04:15:50 GMT)
A note on whether it means ease of use. Clearly most of the answers, including mine, point in a different direction. I also can confirm that it does not mean ease of use. While centralized storage bring (or \"brings\" is a topic for another discussion) several functional and efficiency benefits, but at a cost, part of the cost is that they are complex to manage. Vendors and third party software vendors typically provide management tools and GUI\'s for managing these conglomerates, otherwise only the very high end customers would find them usable. But you still need highly technical system admin staff. So in summary, it does not mean easy to use.\"
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Note added at 47 mins (2003-10-06 19:20:48 GMT)
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The customer here includes the cutomer\'s IT staff and the customer\'s end user. Where the IT staff are mentioned, they are mentioned explicitly, but the end user is just referred to as \"the customer\".
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Note added at 51 mins (2003-10-06 19:25:24 GMT)
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The title of the answer should say ... total control over ..
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Note added at 1 hr 0 min (2003-10-06 19:33:43 GMT)
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Disaster tolerance is not what the word impact refers to. It is a red herring in this case. Disaster tolerance is listed as one of three benefits, namely scalability, disaster tolerance, and management tools.
DT is a high availability feature where a company would have systems in at least two geographically separate sites linked by a WAN. One system is live and the other is a standby system that gets periodical updates from the live system. If the live system is struck by fire, hurricane, or other disaster, the standby system is then kicked into actin and goes live. There are three categories of DT systems, campus, metro, and continental.
Reference: http://www.thocp.net/reference/stones_and_pebbles/numbers.ht...
| Alaa Zeineldine
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