Monthly Archives: March 2006

This week we sent out an announcement on our ZHA Exception reporter which is a tool for helping customers to manage and optimize their NetApp infrastructures. It is subscription based, and reads through the autosupport logs that our customers filers … Continue reading

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Disaster prevention Summit – May 31 and June 1 Jon Toigo’s group is putting on a Summit that should be very useful to the end users in the industry that read this blog. I am working on putting together a … Continue reading

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Why buy a new NetApp unit? Does Jabil Circuit build a better box for NetApp than NEC did? We get calls on a daily basis from customers who are looking at an outrageous price quote from NetApp for some new … Continue reading

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EXPECT DOUBLE DISK FAILURES WITH ATA DRIVES – Dave Hitz – NetApp Founder After reading Daves’ blog you have to wonder if NetApp keeps any of their critical accounting data or sales data on ATA drives. Dave goes on to … Continue reading

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Reliable, Repeatable and Verifiable “You don’t understand how we calculate price/performance,” NetApp says. Over the last few months it has become quite apparent that the performance numbers provided by NetApp are not in any way verifiable. Jon Toigo’s request for … Continue reading

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Data Migrations Earlier this week, one of my engineers and I went to see a customer in Virginia that is getting ready to migrate their NetApp data to new data center. They wanted to know what our recommendations were and … Continue reading

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End of year sales at NetApp. We have been getting calls from lots of folks saying that their NetApp sales folks are getting particularly aggressive lately. You can thank the end of year for that and add in that most … Continue reading

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The Future of Storage: This week’s economist has a fascinating article on the future of Disk Storage. If the article is correct enterprise companies who are considering their strategic storage initiatives should look at a 4 -5 year life for … Continue reading

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Is remote hosted storage ready for your tier one storage requirements? Amazon seems to think so.“This is intended to be very flexible to support any application a developer might build,” says Adam Selipsky, Amazon’s vice president of product management, adding … Continue reading

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Website hits It is really amazing where our hits come from on our Websites www.zerowait.com and www.thezerowaitstore.com . About 50% of our hits come from the USA and usually between 5% and 10% are from the San Francisco bay area, … Continue reading

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