Monthly Archives: June 2007

NetApp’s Warmenhoven is taking an interest in a former customer who has chosen an HP EVA solution, here is the email exchange from Toasters the mailing list for NetApp filer users. From: Warmenhoven, Dan (Dan.Warmenhoven@netapp.com)Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 – … Continue reading →

How long can IBM stay in a low profit business sector? . NetApp is very proud of its reseller relationship with IBM. And many of our customers have been able to get better deals by getting quotes on identical equipment … Continue reading →

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. George Bernard Shaw…. I was surprised to see that VarBusiness has learned to read NetApp’s history of treatment of the channel and are willing to discuss it in an article. … Continue reading →

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing. – W. Edwards Deming . In my college years working on my business degree I studied production and inventory control methods. A … Continue reading →

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Sun-Tzu I saw a headline today that made me think that NetApp is really starting to fear the second level storage companies who have a lower cost solution for reliable high availability … Continue reading →

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck NetApp has recently put on a push to engage the channel to help it ramp up NetApp’s anemic sales numbers. In the past, NetApp has used the … Continue reading →

What good can come out of an Options probe? Can a company where the Executives are focused on short term personal gain build products that have long term value?Backdating Fine May Set ModelBrocade Is the First to PayPenalty in Options … Continue reading →