A few months back, I was riding in my colleague’s car and his iPOD interface to the car caught my eye. His car did not have a “native iPOD adapter” and so he had bought this aftermarket device that plugged into his iPOD and allowed him to control the iPOD directly from his car’s audio controls. He said “it is like Symantec OpenStorage (OST). Just as OST allows NetBackup to control appliances intelligently, this device allows your car to control the iPOD more efficiently”. His analogy was simple and yet so powerful. This discussion was my OST “A-HA moment” and got me intrigued.
As I took on a more active role in NetBackup disk offerings in the months that followed, I learned more about OST and realized how powerful the concept was. In the past, there have been several misconceptions around OST. Many have thought it to be Symantec’s attempt to kill the VTL...
