Monthly Archives: November 2005

NetApp Storage Costs Can you look at the cost of your NetApp storage in isolation? By its very definition Network Attached Storage needs to have a Network for it to work. How do you include network costs in your cost … Continue reading →

“We’re not junk, we’re not scrap, and we won’t be treated that way!” — From the movie ROBOTS. As most of our readers know, we do a tremendous business in NetApp replacement parts. There are a lot of reasons for … Continue reading →

Over the holiday weekend I spoke to a few friends about their operational costs of storage. These guys work at a major bank with offices & Data Centers all over the world. They know that Zerowait provides service and support … Continue reading →

Thanksgiving holiday Zerowait will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. We want to wish all of our customers and their families the happiest of holidays. I also want to thank my employees for their hard work and dedication to this … Continue reading →

“I love Thanksgiving. It’s the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.” Arnold Schwarzenegger

Can anyone verify this statement by NetApp’s CEO in Byte and switch? Dan Warmenhoven, CEO of Network Appliance. “NetApp provides customers with the best storage utilization rates in the industry, allowing them to decrease their total cost of ownership and … Continue reading →

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of … Continue reading →

Dateline California I have been in California the last few days visiting with NetApp service and support customers of ours. The first thing I notice when I come to California is that gas is about .50 a gallon more than … Continue reading →

What do you do when your critical NetApp data slips off the information super highway. Step one is always to get things back up and running again, so traffic is not backed up to all of your clients and other … Continue reading →

Hanging by a wire Sometimes things just don’t go as planned. But someone has to take responsibility and someone has to solve the problem, for a big problem the solution takes a team. Often we are asked to solve problem … Continue reading →