Monthly Archives: May 2006

Disaster recovery or disaster prevention? This week there is a conference in Tampa about preventing a catastrophic loss of data. Although the conference’s focus is based on FEMA types of events, every enterprise needs to be aware of the costs … Continue reading

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“Extraordinary Claims require extraordinary proof” Carl Sagan When it comes to reliability and uptime there is no doubt that NetApp has some of the most remarkably stable storage equipment in the marketplace. It is not unusual to have customers that … Continue reading

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Has NetApp peaked ? Server storage company Network Appliance Inc. announced Wednesday that its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter net income dropped 6.6 percent. Our company has seen a surge in our support business over the last year and as many … Continue reading

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He should have called Zerowait for his NetApp support! NetApp’s midrange storage quality up for debateBy Beth Pariseau, News Writer22 May 2006 | SearchStorage.com It may have been a blow to Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) that its traditional sweet spot, … Continue reading

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We are made wise not by recollection of the past, but by the responsibility for our future – George Bernard Shaw When choosing an enterprise storage device many organizations make their decisions based on what their sales person says and … Continue reading

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Fighting Vendor lock in with outstanding Performance, support and reliability Over the last week I heard many times about how much NetApp’s customers appreciate Zerowait’s service and support. They were tired of paying high prices for their service and support … Continue reading

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California trip I have been in California visiting some customers this week and a few of our customers are looking at or testing things with VMware and filers. Keeping virtual machine copies of your desktops and servers makes a lot … Continue reading

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License transferability Someone recently asked what they should write on their PO to get transferable licenses. Something like this should work: This Purchase order (agreement) includes the specific intent and the legal right to transfer software by purchaser to other … Continue reading

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Are you ever left wondering how to verify a vendor’s ROI claims? I saw this today on the register website –http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/09/netapp_cheapo_storage/NetApp guns for EMC and HPUndercuts rivalsBy Chris WilliamsPublished Tuesday 9th May 2006 10:30 GMT NetApp has extended its enterprise … Continue reading

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EMC seems to have NetApp’s customers in their sights The new Clariion products allow users to replace disk drives, power supplies, cooling fans and small form-factor pluggable optical transceivers on their own. A new Disk Replacement Utility wizard guides them … Continue reading

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