Monthly Archives: June 2006

StorageWiki – A very cool resource I like the idea of a Free NAS solution, especially for the SMB market. Buy some cheap drives, put free software on a cheap server, and invest the money for corporate growth! I know … Continue reading

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The coming Data Explosion – will there be a need for short term Caching? I have been reading a lot more about the coming of RFID. It seems everyone agrees that this will cause a data explosion with manufacturing, distribution … Continue reading

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Zerowait High AvailabilityOver the last 17 years in business our company has earned a reputation for High Availability in Networking and Storage design. There have been many technology changes in the marketplace and the equipment that we use to build … Continue reading

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Pittsburgh, Spinnaker and roads not taken. I have to go to Pittsburgh today to visit some customers. I used to go to Pittsburgh quite often before NetApp purchased Spinnaker networks. A few years ago Zerowait helped Spinnaker with its early … Continue reading

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Myopia and SMB Storage I went to the local eye doctor last week to get my new eyeglasses. The eye Doctor knows that Zerowait has something to do with computers and storage and he started peppering me with questions. First … Continue reading

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Large Margin Technology Robin Harris at Stragemojo.com uses the term Enhanced Margin technology to describe the mark up’s that storage vendors make on reselling their commodity based hardware. But perhaps we should call it Venture Capital Margin Technology (VCMT) , … Continue reading

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Pearls of wisdom from Storage MojoLast night I got a chance to speak to Robin Haris and I asked permission to cross post his blog entries on mine. We had a great discussion and I encourage folks to watch his … Continue reading

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When NetApp purchased Spinnaker I was startled, as I could not understand the reason behind the purchase. Spinnaker, like Panasas, could have been a viable company, but they were both late to the marketplace, and could not get the market … Continue reading

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The Disk Cleaning & Sanitization issue: Recently a growing number of customers have been asking us to help them SANITIZE their disks after they retire their storage equipment. We do this with our proprietary solution for a daily on site … Continue reading

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The Small Business perspective and a Goliath’s Last night I was reading the Wall Street Journal of June 6th 2006, and on page B5 there is an article by Gwendolyn Bounds about how an independent radio station in Philadelphia maintains … Continue reading

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