Monthly Archives: March 2008

Managing in a tightening environment

I visited some customers in New Jersey last week. One customer asked me how I thought the economy would change the storage environment. I told him that overall people were not going to start suddenly to delete emails and Powerpoints … Continue reading

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The Zerowait Logo

Since NetApp came out with their new blue staple look, I have gotten a few requests from people asking how I came up with the Zerowait name and our logo. I had already named the company Zerowait, because I did … Continue reading

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Analysts and your strategic storage investment

Uncertainty in the economy is driving many companies to review their costs. Some are focusing on their high cost storage infrastructures, because when things go into recession many companies need to understand why their costs are so high, and where … Continue reading

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Zerowait’s Filer tuning

Recently there has been an uptick in our tuning business, many customers call us and ask our engineers to tune their filers to get better disk utilization, increase their storage capacity or tweak their filers to get more speed or … Continue reading

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Network Appliance has new logo

First they shuffle the players in their executive suite, now they come out with a new Logo. I wonder when they will change their corporate philosophy? I certainly hope this re branding works better than the New Coke did. Quite … Continue reading

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Dothill, Xyratex, NetApp & Your money

Recently Xyratex has lost its unique position of being the sole provider of disk shelves to NetApp. This is because the newest SAS shelves are coming from Dothill . If I were in Xyratex’s position, I would be very worried … Continue reading

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