Monthly Archives: October 2005

 Your legacy NetApp equipment is not a historic relic from a bygone era. But I wonder how many NetApp filers will be running over 100 years from their manufacturing date? I can assure you that there are thousands of NetApp … Continue reading →

We probably have a NetApp customer near you already! We feel it is important to visit our customers, and so I have to travel a lot, and so do our engineers. Our customers expect us to live up to our … Continue reading →

Synchronizing time It seems like such a simple concept. But when you have storage networks that span a wide area, things can get pretty complicated pretty quickly. When you are trying to move data between networks that are not synchronized, … Continue reading →

Watching an expert sand casting a mold recently, I was reminded of the time and expertise it takes to properly configure a Storage Network. So many of the storage installations we work with are set up with the general configurations … Continue reading →

More Data More Beer Last week Dave Hitz blogged about a NetApp customer that pointed out that without their Data there woluld be no beer flowing. And that would be bad . You can read his blog here.Zerowait is around … Continue reading →

“Many persons have an idea that one cannot be in business and lead an upright life, whereas the truth is that no one succeeds in business to any great extent, who misleads or misrepresents” John Wanamaker Zerowait has built a … Continue reading →

Uninterrupted Email on a budget – saving your tax dollars! A couple of years ago we started working with the folks at NASA on a storage solution for their email. It was a pleasure working with the folks at NASA … Continue reading →

Competitive pricing for NetApp support The other day I was talking to a NetApp customer and I asked what I thought was a very simple question. ‘Have you ever gotten a competitive price quote on any of your NetApp equipment.’ … Continue reading →

I was shooting pool in Latrobe, PA recently with a friend and customer and we got to talking about the relative costs of computer storage for his company. This has been an on going discussion for many months and in … Continue reading →

Where are you going with your storage architecture? What is your destination? Are you looking just to solve today’s storage problems or do you have a 3 to 5 year strategic storage plan? Most of the customers we deal with … Continue reading →