Monthly Archives: April 2006

Why does an R200 Nearstore use 512 Sector drives? What is going on? Maybe the reason that Dave Hitz is advocating Dual Parity now is because NetApp is using less reliable drives and drive technology? A few years NetApp swtiched … Continue reading →

MAY 31 & JUNE 1 – Join us in Tampa! Jon Toigo’s group is putting on a Disaster Recovery Conference and we will be there! Although we like to advocate Disaster Prevention techniques, rather then waiting for a problem to … Continue reading →

It has been a very busy couple of days. We have started to get in NetApp FAS960’s and a lot of people want to upgrade from their 800 series units to the FAS960’s, and have been waiting for our stock … Continue reading →

Morphic Resonance Last night I phoned Jon Toigo because of the search storage article and we chatted about it at length. This morning I read his blog. It seems that the press and the competition is now starting to ask … Continue reading →

NetApp – we used to be a contender It is eerie to watch the decline of NetApp. Here is company that spends hundreds a millions of dollars to purchase Spinnaker, Alacritus, Decru and yet does not spend money on listening … Continue reading →

I was in Charlotte NC yesterday visiting with a fast growing racing technology company that we provide service and support to for their NetApp filers. Even this fast growing, fast paced business needs help in controlling their NetApp costs for … Continue reading →