Monthly Archives: January 2007

Genius is 1% inspiration & 99% perspiration– Edison The other night I was reading about the Wright brothers and I came upon this statement: Wilbur and Orville were sons of a church Bishop and a mother who viewed her fulltime … Continue reading →

Packaging is one of the most important parts of our business and we take pride in the quality of our packaging. Developing techniques and procedures to make certain that our equipment arrives at our customer sites in perfect condition takes … Continue reading →

NetApp’s Rich Clifton leaves me with more questions than answers from this interview. But it is worth reading and remembering that NetApp has a record of leaving its partners in the cold. So keep that in mind when you read … Continue reading →

You can’t make this up…. it seems that NetApp and another partner are not getting along. Is there a pattern here? When things were goodLowell, Mass. – November 21, 2005 — Acopia Networks, the innovator of Adaptive Resource Networking, today … Continue reading →

Will NetApp continue to be an American company in the future? A couple of months ago we learned that Ontap ,the NetApp software, is actually owned in the Netherlands for tax reasons. And now we are learning that NetApp’s global … Continue reading →

Another project begins! A couple of my engineers are Jeep nuts like me, and have been looking for a project Willys Jeep. I have had my eyes on this CJ3B since 1989. My friends took the engine and transmission out … Continue reading →

Chuck Hollis of EMC on NetApp marketing techniques. Click here or read below. NetApp: Bad Marketing vs. Good Marketing All is fair in love, war and marketing. Or is it? Do we, as vendors, have a responsibility to our customers … Continue reading →

What percentage of your corporate storage is Spam? The volume of spam rocketed in December to account for a record 94% of all Internet-sent e-mail during the month, a message security company said Wednesday. “This continued rise in spam levels … Continue reading →

Why does NetApp charge so much for their equipment? I get asked this all the time, and the answer is based on many factors but mostly it is because the market perceives a NetApp label to be worth more than … Continue reading →

Hitachi announces the arrival of 1TB drives. A 1TB hard drive for $399 is likely to be an instant hit among early adopters and video pros. That price translates to about 40 cents per gigabyte, or 0.04 cents per megabyte. … Continue reading →