Monthly Archives: July 2007

“To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human.” Arthur Bloch Yesterday one of my readers suggested I read the Blog of Dave Hitz. Dave is a founder of NetApp and has made a lot … Continue reading

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It looks like the folks at Sun are going to get serious about going after NetApp’s NAS position in the market. Over the last year it seems to me that NetApp is focusing on SAN installations more, which may create … Continue reading

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Jeff Browning explains NetApp Snapshots and the trade off’s in this blog entry very well. It is worth reading the whole blog, his explanations are better than anything I could write. Here are some short excerpts…“NetApp’s snapshots actually occurred as … Continue reading

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Over the last few months there has been a significant increase in the interest in Load Balancing as a solution customers are looking at to provide high availability to their internal users and external websites. Coincidentally, the folks at Barracuda … Continue reading

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Round Numbers are Always False – Samuel Johnson Lately I have seen a lot of babble about Green Data Centers. Cristóbal Conde, says…“According to some reports, the energy consumption of server systems doubled between 2000 and 2005. Companies now spend … Continue reading

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Are load balancers disruptive to NetApp software licensing fees? One of our customers has been asking questions about whether they should take the plunge into NetApp metro clusters. And at first glance the technology looks pretty interesting. But then we … Continue reading

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When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.– Mark Twain’s Autobiography I found this article interesting, in light of recent articles about NetApp’s problems with its channel partners. Warmenhoven declined to … Continue reading

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The truth about NetApp partnerships leaks out… incrementally An article in CRN seems like deje vu to Zerowait who also had deals with JPL that NetApp decided we couldn’t handle once we had established the account and had already sold … Continue reading

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When Jeff Browning was at NetApp we always paid close attention to what he said. Now he is at EMC, which is interesting. When Jeff speaks, it is still a good idea to pay attention: Jeff has recently started a … Continue reading

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Fun with transportation You might think from watching the FED EX and UPS commercials on TV, or from reading their brochures that transportation and shipping is easy and once everything is in the system it goes perfectly. With GPS in … Continue reading

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