Monthly Archives: September 2005

“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.” — Alexander Hamilton The view from the cockpit of a twin engine airplane … Continue reading →

Boulder Dam or Hoover Dam? Its the same dam thing. Does it make a difference if you buy the NetApp version of the FAS270 filer or the IBM 3700 version? Same box, same software, same service and support. The only … Continue reading →

Stratregic Leadership in the storage industry. Today our engineers are doing an installation at a Data Center near New York City. The area between Washington DC and Boston represents about 25% of our NetApp service and support business. As the … Continue reading →

“When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.” — Armand Hammer Today our engineers are doing an installation of a transferable licensed F840 with a couple of TB of disks at a client of … Continue reading →

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” — Kurt Vonnegut Yesterday, I was visiting a large government customer in Washington DC., their NetApp … Continue reading →

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” — George Orwell Our typical customer is looking for … Continue reading →

  “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.” — Douglas Adams When is the last time you heard a manager complain that everything is working … Continue reading →

As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability – the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns. Joseph E. Stiglitz In … Continue reading →

Strategy and Tactics- in a changing world “Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself … Continue reading →