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Who's Happier: Vblock Or FlexPod Customers?
6:30 PM EST Wed. Oct. 17, 2012Which is better, a well-defined, preconfigured infrastructure offering like VCE's Vblock, a data-center-in-a box that arrives at the loading dock already racked and stacked, or a flexible converged infrastructure offering that can be designed to specific requirements as long as the loading dock has room for 300 boxes of parts?
The answer: It depends.
When it comes to converged infrastructure, where IT managers try to simplify their data centers with tightly integrated server, storage, networking, and virtualization solutions to better manage fast-growing data and compute requirements, there just is no single, one-size-fits-all way to do it. The following is a look at various customers, some who decided that fully configured Vblocks from VCE were the way to go, some who embraced the FlexPod reference architecture from NetApp and Cisco, and some who went the V plus C plus E route -- eschewing the fully integrated Vblock concept entirely -- and put the products together themselves or with the help of a partner.
Until early 2011, the Mississippi Community College Board, which coordinates services including wireless networking, Internet access, and Domain Name System (DNS) for all 15 community colleges in the state of Mississippi, had a data center like most.
It was virtualized, said Ray Smith, assistant executive director for technology. "But need a new app? Buy a new file server," Smith said. "We had 25 to 30 boxes. But our data center was not designed for that. Heat was a big issue."
Something had to change, and the organization initially looked at replacing servers with blade technology, Smith said. However, it was a bit scared of making a significant change to its architecture. "History is full of vendors who partner and then break up with you," he said.
One of the alternatives the board considered was Cisco UCS servers because of their large memory capacities, Smith said. He also heard of the relationship Cisco had through VCE with EMC and VMware, the latter of which provided the board's virtualization technology.
VCE surprised Smith from the start with speed. "My first email to VCE was answered in 10 minutes," he said. "And any question to VCE I get answered within 15 minutes any time of the day."
One of VCE's responses was to put the board in touch with a local solution provider, Ridgeland, Miss.-based Venture Technologies. And that is what sealed the deal, Smith said. "Venture Technologies had a portable Vblock they brought out," he said.
That demonstration showed the joys of not assembling a virtualized IT infrastructure from components, Smith said.
"If we bring in our own equipment, or have an external infrastructure, we'd get the same cabling mess I have now," he said. "With Vblock, we get up to 40 GBs per second with very little cabling. Believe it or not, it's a big deal to open the back and actually see the equipment, and not the cables. Also, the 'finger pointing' thing -- it's nice to not have to deal with it."
Smith also liked how, with a Vblock, redundancy was not an option. "It's defined," he said. "Everything has redundant parts. If there's any problem, you're notified, and the manufacturer is notified. In education, you get used to working with very little. It's hard to talk about purchasing redundant systems. With Vblock, that's not an issue. That's the way it comes."
The Mississippi Community College Board's Vblock is currently used primarily to run DNS and the databases used by the 15 member colleges, Smith said. It provides a wide range of services for the colleges, including registration, and is also slated to play a big part in longitudinal data systems, a federal program for tracking students from when they enter kindergarten through to their first jobs, he said.
The board also hosts private clouds for member campuses on its Vblock. "They have their own data centers," Smith said. "But sometimes they need something fast, or don't have the money to do it. I can create VMs in five minutes, and they're ready to go."
Going with the Vblock was a gamble, Smith said. "And so far, it's paid off," he said. "I hope this venture continues. The support is seamless. So I've been happy with the decisions I've made."
Smith is also happy with the continued performance of VCE as a company. "I have a small staff," he said. "With VCE, I get high-level EMC, Cisco, and VMware experts on the phone when needed."
In the summer of 2010, Carmel, Ind.-based Seven Corners was challenged by an application platform dating from the mid-1990s on the one server still able to handle it and the 13 TB of associated non-normalized data.
Not only was the system straining to keep up the annual double-digit data growth Seven Corners had experienced for 17 years, it was costing $133,000 per month in labor and lost labor, said George Reed, CIO.
Seven Corners, which provides a variety of services to the insurance industry, was also under pressure from an increase in services resulting from federal government requirements, he said.
As a result, Seven Corners in August 2010 worked with Netech, a Grand Rapids, Mich.-based solution provider, to implement a NetApp FAS 3104 storage array. Netech also suggested implementing Cisco UCS server and networking technology and VMware virtualization technology as a way to virtualize Seven Corners' application, he said.
The decision was made just in time. "We gave them three months," Reed said. "It took them two months and 20 days to implement. The day after we migrated the application, our last [legacy] server blue-screened."
When the new system went live, Reed did not tell his co-workers immediately. "That day, one of the owners came and said there was a problem," he said. "Normally, the owner said, it takes 45 minutes to print a report. 'Now it prints before I take my hand off the mouse,' he said."
Netech impressed Seven Corners with its ability to virtualize its old application, Reed said. "They did so well, our business grew, increasing the need for more storage," he said. "In August of 2011, I called Netech with a [purchase order] at 11:00. By 4:00, Netech installed and provisioned 12 TB. And we were getting a 60 percent data reduction from deduplication."
Seven Corners' FlexPod infrastructure continues to expand. Last fall, the company acquired a half-terabyte of Flash-based cache, which Reed said cuts the time needed to run scripts significantly.
Before implementing the cache, it took eight hours to run an analysis of Seven Corners' database, which included running through 4.5 million records looking for duplicate county, state, and ZIP code combinations, Reed said.
"After, it took 20 minutes," he said. "My project manager handed me tables showing 99.9 percent relevant data. I haven't seen him so happy since his granddaughter was born."
Sever Corners' FlexPod took four days to assemble on-site, leaving what Reed called "mounds of cardboard" in the loading area when finished. Even so, he said, having it assembled and provisioned on-site was a big plus. "My server room staff got a deeper knowledge of what they were doing," he said. "Packaging on a pallet and shipping it complete [like a Vblock] is a neat idea, but then you need more time to do the training."
Seven Corners is not done with its FlexPod. Reed said his organization is getting ready to upgrade the on-site storage to a FAS 3240, and will install a FAS 3270 off-site. "The company is growing so fast we need to move off-site for disaster recovery," he said.
Rob Dickson, director of technology at the Andover Public Schools, Andover, Kansas, loves his two Vblock 300s.
His love stems not from the fact 90 percent of Andover Public Schools' servers are virtualized on them, or that they are hosting 200 virtual desktops, or even that they provide VoIP service for 900 users.
What Dickson really loves is that he has not had a single downtime issue, and that the system has never been rebooted in the nearly 300 days since it was installed.
"My goal is to do no updates until it has been running 365 days without a downtime," he said. "Then I'll take a screenshot showing no downtime, and use it in my report to the board at our retreat this summer."
Things were not looking so good in 2009 and 2010. Back then, Andover Public Schools' IT requirements were met with a 12 x 12-foot data center room that housed 80 to 90 heavily virtualized physical servers sitting in five racks and on several tables, all being cooled by three air conditioners.
Lost funding due to the economic downturn led to a 30 percent reduction in its IT staff, forcing the district to increase the virtualization of its operations to get more efficiency. However, its data center setup limited its ability to add new services, and there was no money to build a larger data center. A traditional data center refresh with beefier servers and larger SANs, was considered, but a change in support staff made that a difficult option, Dickson said.
Working with Kansas City-based solution provider Alexander Open Systems, the district in late 2010 took a long look at the possibility of working with VCE's Vblock. Dickson said it was a logical first choice because the company already had EMC storage and was a Cisco phone customer.
Dickson said implementation of Andover Public Schools' Vblocks was incredibly smooth. His team early last July physically moved all the servers and other equipment from the data center room to an adjacent room to prepare space for the Vblocks, and during the second week of the month, five VCE engineers showed up for the installation.
"By Friday, I had migrated the entire infrastructure to the Vblocks," he said. "We migrated our phone system, including all 900 phones, from a physical infrastructure to virtual in Vblock. Everything was working before the engineers left on Friday. And on Monday morning, my users didn't see anything different."
The experience of having VCE engineers on-site with the solution provider was a big plus for Dickson and his team.
"When we had an issue with the UIM, an EMC engineer on-site called his company and had it resolved in a couple of hours," he said. We had a VCE project manager on-site dotting every 'i' and crossing every 't.'"
That project manager even pulled the plug on the Vblocks to make sure the failover worked before migrating them to production, Dickson said. "That's the level of support you can't get with any other solution," he said. "It's VCE's solution. They can't blame anyone else for anything."
The Andover Public Schools' IT infrastructure acquired its two Vblock 300s on a three-year lease at the end of which it will look at growing the system to do a districtwide virtual desktop implementation, Dickson said. It is also looking at adding some new VMware applications like the Octopus file sharing system and AppBlast, which wraps a Windows application in HTML so it can be run on an iPad.
The district's 144-square-foot data center room now has plenty of extra room. "We use the extra space for people to come in and look at the Vblock," Dickson said. "You can walk around it. We could never do that before."
The bursting of the recent housing bubble nearly broke the back of the Walz Group's data center, but it survived with FlexPod's help.
The Walz Group, based in Temecula, Calif., had been providing critical document management and regulatory help to legal, health-care, and state and local government customers for 25 years, but in 2006 found its IT infrastructure limiting its growth and scalability in the face of a surge in foreclosures, said Bart Falzarano, chief information security officer.
"Starting in 2006, we've seen exponential demands on storage," he said. "There are also a lot of changes because of new financial regulations. We need to account for all that data."
By 2009, the company had looked at technologies from a number of vendors, including VCE's Vblock. However, Falzarano said, his team was sold on the FlexPod infrastructure in part because of its promise of large-scale virtualization, centralized management, and ease in scaling capacity.
Falzarano also said that running Microsoft SQL in virtualized environments was easier on the FlexPod, and that the FlexPod has a better control panel than the Vblock.
Cisco and NetApp engineers were on-site when the FlexPod components arrived, and had the system up and running in only four days. "It was very impressive," Falzarano said. "Even the cabling was reduced significantly. We got centralized management, even on the Fabric. We used to have experts on systems, storage, and networking on staff. Now we have only two people, including me, managing the system."
San Diego-based solution provider Technology Integration Group helped the Walz Group with due diligence during the project, and followed up with virtualization services, Falzarano said.
That help was instrumental when it came time to integrate Microsoft SQL. "FlexPod significantly increased our virtualization efficiencies," he said. "The one thing we couldn't fully virtualize was Microsoft SQL. When we virtualized it, we found the performance was degraded. We eventually built SQL on a bare metal Cisco UCS server, and we imagined how much better the performance would be."
Falzarano and his team were originally concerned about support issues and response times with FlexPod, which at the time was a new technology. "Since then, we've seen upgrades done without downtime and without support," he said. "Issues get taken care of without finger pointing."
As a result, one person can now manage over 50 different systems via the FlexPod's unified management system instead of a maximum of 15 or 16 servers per full-time equivalent.
The Walz Group is currently adding cloud management and automation software from Cloupia to its FlexPod to manage the physical, virtual, and cloud portions through a single console, Falzarano said. "It would let us see what workloads would be best to move to a private cloud or to a public cloud, and give the ability to burst workloads out to a cloud and back," he said.
Rearchitecting the Walz Group's infrastructure with FlexPod has been quite the journey, Falzarano said. "In the past, we had decentralized storage and management," he said. "We're now past that. Now when we have clients with problems managing their scalability, we send them APIs to leverage our infrastructure. This has become a new business enabler for us."
Not all Vblock-related implementations have turned out fruitfully, and their details, naturally, aren't much publicized.
One of the more high-profile Vblock-related misses was with Harris Corp., the Melbourne, Fla.-based federal government and commercial integrator and maker of wireless equipment, antennas and electronic systems.
Harris used multiple Vblocks in a data center based in Harrisonburg, Va., for an operation in its Integrated Network Solutions business that sold remote cloud hosting solutions to federal government customers. But Harris announced on Feb. 27 that the operation, known as Cyber Integrated Solutions, would be shut down, and that the data center would be sold.
In a statement at the time, Harris said "that although demand continues for cybersecurity and cloud-enabled solutions, its government and commercial customers currently prefer hosting mission-critical information on their own premises rather than remotely," and that it expected to take an after-tax charge of $70 million to $80 million during its fiscal 2012 as a result of the shutdown.
A spokesperson for Harris declined comment to CRN on whether the data center had been sold, whether Harris was pleased with its Vblock implementations and why Harris originally selected Vblock for the Cyber Integrated Solutions operation.
A VCE insider, however, said the Harris deal was often mentioned internally by VCE as a successful case study.
Vblock functionality was not believed to be a direct factor in Harris' shut-down decision. "But wouldn't Harris have been able to judge the level of that customer demand before they stood the thing up?" the VCE insider said.
Harris bought the 140,000-square-foot facility in 2010, and according to the IT blog Data Center Knowledge, spent about $200 million on it.
According to a transcript of Harris' Jan. 31 second-quarter earnings call, Harris CEO William Brown said Harris lost a combined $8 million from its CIS and Healthcare Solutions during the quarter. In Harris' third-quarter earnings call on May 1, Brown said Harris had "resolved significant financial drag from the cyber hosting facility and the process to divest the assets is progressing quickly."


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A 3-year-old Honduran male presented to the emergency department with a 7 ¥ 10 ¥ 3 cm mass protruding from his right orbit. The mass, which had been enlarging for 1 year, was friable, with a wet, yellow, odoriferous exudate and occasional frank bleeding at the margins. Enucleation of the left eye for retinoblastoma had been performed on the patient at age 2, followed by chemotherapy.
Invasive retinoblastoma with metastasis.
Retinoblastoma is the most common intraocular malignancy affecting the pediatric population, with an incidence of 1 in 15,000 to 30,000 live births; approximately 200 new cases are reported in the United States each year. The diagnosis usually is made before 2 years of age, with 80% of cases diagnosed under 3 years of age.1,2,3 Both sexes are affected equally.4
Retinoblastoma is a primitive neuroendocrine tumor which originates in the nuclear layers of the retina and may push upon the retina, resulting in retinal detachment (endophytic type). It also may grow as a highly pedunculated mass on a short stalk, without retinal detachment (exophytic type).2 These tumors grow rapidly, and necrosis and calcification are common.3 Retinoblastomas are typically identified on computed tomography as intravitreous soft-tissue masses that enhance following the administration of intravenous contrast. Calcifications within an intravitreous soft-tissue mass are virtually pathognomonic of a retinoblastoma prior to age 3, and are seen in greater than 95% of cases.6 After age 3, calcifications are slightly less specific, as they may occasionally be seen in other entities simulating retinoblastoma such as retinal astrocytoma, toxocariasis, advanced Coats' disease with retinal necrosis and, rarely, advanced retinopathy of prematurity.1
Retinoblastoma is responsible for approximately 1% of all cancer deaths in children under 15 years of age.4 It is hereditary in 40% of cases, of which three-fourths arise as spontaneous mutations. When hereditary, retinoblastoma follows an autosomal dominant pattern, with 80% penetrance. The hereditary form occurs at an earlier age and is more likely to be bilateral.3 Bilateral disease occurs in 20 to 40% of all patients with retinoblastoma, and all patients with bilateral disease have the hereditary form regardless of family history.3 Associated pinealoma, or the so-called "trilateral retinoblastoma," occurs in 3% of those patients with bilateral ocular neoplasms.1,3 A deletion of the 13q14 segment in the long arm of chromosome 13 has been identified in some patients with retinoblastoma.5 Associated abnormalities include mental retardation, extra digits, imperforate anus, and failure to thrive.2
Initial detection is typically by ophthalmologic diagnosis of leukokoria (a white pupillary reflex), which is present in 60% of children with the disease. Strabismus is the second most common sign, followed by glaucoma, often with heterochromia (different colored irides).1,2,6 Less common features include a painful red eye, decreased vision, and orbital inflammation.1,3 In the developed world, an exophytic orbital mass is a rare presentation of retinoblastoma.
Metastatic disease appears, on average,12 months after initial diagnosis. Extracranial metastatic disease is rare in the United States.1,3 Intracranial metastatic lesions have been reported in virtually all patients dying of retinoblastoma and over 50% have distant organ metastasis.1,7 The tumor typically invades intracranially via the optic nerve into the subarachnoid space and central nervous system. It also can spread hematogeneously to distant sites following invasion of the optic vein. Prognosis is related to the stage of the orbital disease rather than the bilaterality.7 Mortality approaches 100% when there is extraocular extent of the tumor.2 Children who survive their retinoblastoma are at an increased risk for osteosarcoma and, less commonly, Ewing's sarcoma and peripheral neuroepithelioma. Secondary malignant neoplasms occur almost exclusively in patients with hereditary bilateral disease.5,8
Current options in the therapeutic armamentarium include enucleation, external beam radiation therapy, scleral plaque brachytherapy, cryotherapy, photocoagulation, and chemotherapy. Surgical enucleation remains the most commonly used treatment option.5 However, this is rarely performed for bilateral disease as it results in immediate blindness. Enucleation in a child under age 3 also results in a small disfigured orbit. Radiation therapy most often is used to treat the second eye in patients with bilateral disease.5 Chemotherapy generally is reserved for patients with extensive extraocular disease.3
1. Provenzale JM, Weber AL, Klintworth GK, McLendon RE: Radiologic-pathologic correlation: Bilateral retinoblastoma with coexistent pinealoblastoma. Am J Neuroradiol 16:157-165, 1995.
2. Abramson DH: Retinoblastoma: Diagnosis and Management. CA-A Cancer J Clin 32(3):130-140, 1982.
3. Cohen MD: Central nervous system tumors. In: Stamathis G (ed): Imaging of Children with Cancer, pp 305-307. St. Louis, Mosby Year Book, Inc., 1992.
4. Ralbert DM, Dryja TP: The eye. In: Contran RS, Kumar V, Robbins SL (eds): Robbin's Pathologic Basis of Disease, ed 4, pp 1462-1646. Philadelphia, WB Saunders 1989.
5. Shields JA, Shields CL: Current Management of Retinoblastoma. Mayo Clin Proc 69:50-56, 1994.
6. Lindahl S: Computed tomography of the retinoblastoma. Acta Radiologica Diagn 27:513-518, 1986.
7. MacKay CJ, Abramson DH, Ellsworth RM: Metastatic patterns of retinoblastoma. Arch Ophthalmol 102:391-396, 1984.
8. Helton KJ, Fletcher BD, Kun LE, et al: Bone tumors other than osteosarcoma after retinoblastoma. Cancer 71:2847-2853, 1993.
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Fraunhofer Institute on OOXML und ODF
The Fraunhofer Institute has published a whitepaper on the interoperability of Office Open XML (OOXML) and the Open Document Format (ODF). Microsoft had a hand in its development.
The first part of the Fraunhofer Institute whitepaper with the title "Document Interoperability: Open Document Format and Office Open XML" describes use cases in which ODF and OOXML would work well together. The second part analyzes both in terms of the demands the use cases make. In the introduction, the authors hope that their analysis "will be useful in understanding how the ODF and OOXML standards compare, and how their functionality can be mapped between the two formats." However, they do not compare implementations of the standards "which can cause additional kinds of interoperability problems."
The results are rather sobering. Whether the conversion from one document type to the other is successful depends on the complexity and functionality of the document as well as the "translatability level" of the tool used. A closed loop where, say, an ODF document is converted to OOXML and then back again is nigh impossible. The problems arise, according to the analysis, from the ambiguities of the standards and the extensions to the document formats, even if they conform to the standards. The success ultimately lies in the instruments used, which the standards often don't cover. The authors recommend developing validators for the purpose. All in all, the basic compatibility between ODF and OOXML remains largely undefined.
In its conclusion, the whitepaper addresses Open Source activities by identifying their strengths and successes: "There are still many unanswered questions in the field of document interoperability. However, current developments in the field of the standardization as well as interested communities in the Open Source environment are working on and providing solutions to solvable questions and providing clearer views on limitations."
The 90-page whitepaper is available as PDF after a short registration. The Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems (FOKUS) in Berlin is the author and publisher, with some acknowledgements to (and possible financial help from) Microsoft.
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Here are some essential truths as you seek the plans God has for your ministry.
Policies help build systems and processes that meet the demands of a growing church. But are we replacing an utter dependence on God with them?
In their return to Saddleback Church after the death of their son, Pastor Rick and Kay Warren share the very personal story of Matthew and his battle with mental illness. They explore the stages of loss that they are walking through with honesty and transparency, teaching us how to do the same in the tough and tragic times of our lives; reminding us that through it all, God is with us and loves us; and urging us to follow Paul's teaching in 2 Corinthians 1:4-6—to comfort others in their troubles as God comforts us.
It was 30 years ago that I began serving a small rural church in southern Indiana. I was so incredibly green then; I'm glad I didn't always realize it.
I loved those people in that church and, for some reason, they loved me too. I had to be one of the most inept pastors in history, but they just continued to show me grace and love me even more.
Three decades later, I reflect back on what I've learned in ministry. Some lessons came rather naturally; others were very painful.
Imagine a church breathing fresh winds of the Holy Spirit's presence and joy throughout its entire church family—winds generated by God's grace but rising specifically from His working among the teens and college-agers within that body.
For many pastors, this vision of the Spirit igniting a church's youth to affect the entire congregation is a "prophecy in waiting." And as with all prophecies, discernment is essential—to receive truth and to reject confusion or error. To do both, let me recommend two things you, the lead pastor, must sign off on.
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Ed Schaefer reviews the newest edition of Hacking: The Art of Exploitation.
Members of the Hacking world are known by the color of their hat – white for good, black for bad, and gray for those who aren't too sure. By writing Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, Jon Erickson proves his hat color is "mother of pearl." Don't let the title mislead you: Erickson isn't exploiting or vandalizing – he's instructing.
In 2004, I reviewed the book's first edition. In my reviews, I typically like to compare the differences between editions. Erickson beat me to it. At the publisher's web site, you can compare the first and second editions of the book; view excerpts from the Exploitation, Networking, and Countermeasures chapters; and download the book's source. Erickson also bundles the source in a CD included with the book, but more on that later.
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In my first review, I recommended this book for the programming chapter alone. I can no longer do that because the programming chapter is now an "Expanded introduction to fundamental programming concepts for beginners." But it's like no introduction I've ever seen. In one chapter, Erickson takes us from basic Control Structures to Function Pointers. Think of it as Kernighan and Ritchie in 100 pages.
Erickson covers other introductory topics in a hurry, such as his network sockets description in the Networking section (Chapter 4), and his "Crash Course in Signals" in the Countermeasures section (Chapter 6).
It's not that I don't like the author's introductions – I do. I just want to warn you that the introductions might be above the true beginner's head. This book is code intensive and if you don't have a programming background – preferably in Linux "C" – then this book may be of limited value. If you aren't into hacking Linux, or at least wanting to learn, then this book just might gather dust on your book shelf.
Should You Buy the Book?
Because the programming chapter is now an introduction, I now recommend this book for the Exploitations chapter alone. This chapter covers buffer and function overflows and the format string vulnerability. Buy the book and discover why strings should be formated like this:
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What's on the CD?
For readers with no access to a Linux box, Erickson bundles his source with a bootable Ubuntu Linux Live CD. The Live CD requires "an x86-based PC with at least 64MB of system memory and a BIOS that is configured to boot from a CD-ROM." I successfully booted the Live CD with both an IBM T43 laptop and a HP dv9000t laptop.
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The problem is that in my installation, I am already using a motorized screen. A screen that, by the way, cost about as much as this projector. I doubt that I have enough room in the soffit for a second motorized screen. This is a home, not a commercial venue. The existing screen is motorized because it drops in front of a bookcase (which also happens to contain the center speaker) so that the room isn't dominated by a giant screen when it's being used for 2-channel listening or reading or whatever. So, a fixed screen with a second motorized screen that drops in front is not an option.
As well, the current screen uses a masking system. For good masking performance, the masks need to be as close to the screen surface as possible. With two screens, one screen will suffer.
The entire theater is automated. Shades, lighting, screen drop, screen masking. Aspect ratio adjustments are automatic depending upon cues from the movie server. So, to this fully automated theater, I need to add a step to get up and walk over to the projector and tweak the focus ring depending upon type of content? With infrequent 3D viewing, that really honestly probably fine for me since my projector location is easy to access. It'd be a problem in some installations though (perhaps it's built into a soffit, for example, as several folks I know have theirs).
I'm not saying that there are better options at this price point. There aren't. The only 4K alternative I'm aware of that's even remotely close is the Sony VPL-VW1000ES, which is $24,999 MSRP, can't do 4K at anything more than 24p, and is not as bright.
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As I suggested above, Red could remove this objection by offering an option to use active glasses. That opens up all other screen surfaces and allows people who have a big investment in their existing rooms to exchange the projector without an expensive and disruptive replacement of the screen.
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