The Solitude of a Storage request

We, as storage administrators, thinkers, doers and executioners are under a lonely spectrum in the respect of a opinion for our profession.

What we do seems to be underrated, something unappreciated but mostly tends to be judged from those who use the systems without being  proactive taking ownership on the responsibility of use a system for the intended purpose of it. Our jobs are perceived as a mere link on a string without taking in consideration the level of technical expertise in several areas that requires to know about "storage".

Don't get me wrong, the intention of posting this is not to make a rant against those companies which requires from our knowledge, but to clearly state the big difference between those who feed the systems versus those who admin the system.

Im going to post different technical issues found on personal experiences, mostly to separate those two roles from my judgement... the part that only uses the systems vs the one who has to run it, because i want to be completely conscient on how im perceiving what im doing, and also to be aware of why im doing it.

Technical challenges that correspond to subjective circumstances crossed referenced with objective scenarios... let see how it goes.


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