What people say about their file infrastructure once the badge comes off

Most senior infrastructure people could tell you what they would do with their file estate if they were starting again. Far fewer will tell you what they actually did, because the honest version tends to involve a VPN that was meant to be temporary and a NAS that has outlived two migration plans. That honest version is what The Register is after at a dinner in Soho on Tuesday 20 October. Joe Fay of The Register chairs, and Rupert Watson, VP for EMEA at LucidLink, is at the table to answer questions. Everyone else is a peer running distributed teams on storage that was bought for an office. The evening runs under the Chatham House Rule, so what is said can travel but the name attached to it stays in the room. …