Monthly Archives: July 2006

Warren Buffet speaks about abuse of Stock Options – but the whole article is worth reading“Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance,” Buffett wrote in the most recent annual letter to shareholders of … Continue reading →

“Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.” Mark TwainMore Trouble for Brocade NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) – Workers at technology company Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (BRCD.O: Quote, Profile, Research) altered hiring records and employed people … Continue reading →

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” Groucho Marx http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=85225Relentless IT security threats generated from viruses and worms, and legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA and PCI require … Continue reading →

Mike I’m going to take up your generous offer today. I realize that much of your audience may be NetApp customers, however they could benefit from the two resources that I’d like to share below. We’re offering this to bloggers … Continue reading →

But the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it…. Malcolm Forbes Success – Now watch as your market share declines! In the late 1990’s NetApp’s NAS technology was an education sale. Zerowait’s employees worked very hard to teach our customers … Continue reading →

A small problem at a vendor, can cause a big headache for NAS and SAN customers. When a critical part of your data infrastructure is broken and your customers are unable to get their crucial data, your business can suffer … Continue reading →

Highly Valued storage on a commodity storage platform? The other day I saw an email on The Toasters mailing list of NetApp users regarding the certification by Oracle of StoreVault – the new SMB aimed product by NetApp. I have … Continue reading →

Compliments for our Complementary support I just got off the phone with a customer who was telling me that our service and support was fantastic and he can’t understand why NetApp doesn’t see our legacy support as a complementary service … Continue reading →

The other day, one of our engineers and I flew into CYTZ – Toronto Island Airport to visit with some of our customers in Toronto. I told our engineer that landing at Toronto Island provides some great opportunities for some … Continue reading →

Ken Lay’s Golden Egg Over the last few years we have heard a lot of complaining about Ken Lay in the media. But the Computer Storage business should try to make him into a Saint. Before the collapse of Enron … Continue reading →