Monthly Archives: October 2007

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. – Thomas Sowell You can’t make … Continue reading

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Moore’s Law meets Physics and Economics at the same time.. Over the last few months many customers of ours have noticed that upgrading their filers to the newest systems seems to provide little performance dividend, and therefore keeping older systems … Continue reading

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What is Apple up to? One of our readers sent this… “Apple has seeded version 1.1 of ZFS (Zettabyte File System) for Mac OS X to Developers this week. The preview updates a previous build released on June 26, 2007. … Continue reading

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“Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford Sun has announced that it is going to vigorously go after the storage market now, and I think it’s new ZFS product is a great way to do … Continue reading

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Can NetApp Compete with Western Digital and Iomega on the Small Business and Medium Business market? Data Storage News24 September 2007Speed boost for external storageBy Chris Mellor, Techworld “Western Digital and Iomega have introduced better external storage products for small … Continue reading

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There may be affordable solutions coming for transporting storage mirrors and archives over longer distances.From the Wall street Journal “”We can no longer rely on last-generation technology, which has essentially remained unchanged for 40 years, to power Internet performance,” says … Continue reading

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Conventional Wisdom is often wrong, but sometimes it is related to NetApp storage. In this week’s Economist is an article called Advanced biofuels Ethanol, schmethanol .. “Everyone seems to think that ethanol is a good way to make cars greener. … Continue reading

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