Reloading on the Links
Anyway you slice it, playing video golf is just not the same as being out on the golf
course. But when you’re managing critical networks, you may feel like you’re stuck
with the remote control instead of the Taylor Mades.
Mike Hussey, the LAN administrator for the office of the Governor of Utah, decided
to take the chance and went golfing 300 miles away from the office. Luckily he had
installed GWAVA Reload with his Novell GroupWise system.
While on the golf course, he kept getting a call on his BlackBerry. He tried ignoring
it, but the caller persisted. Realizing it must be important, he answered it to learn
that a supervisor in another department had lost some critical emails. It turns out
she had been “filing” her emails in the trash and didn’t realize that when the trash
was emptied days earlier, the emails were gone for good from GroupWise. Because
they had been deleted a while back, they weren’t showing up in the latest Reload
backup she could access. She frantically asked Mike if there was any way he could
get them back for her.
Mike told her to wait for a few minutes and that he would call her back. Right there
on the golf course, he pulled up Reload Mobile on his BlackBerry, found the Reload
backup containing her emails and made it available to her. She was elated to find
her email and Mike was very pleased that he didn’t have to forfeit his game.