Monthly Archives: November 2008

Happy Thanksgiving

Today is a great time of the year to say thank you to all of Zerowait’s customers and friends. It is also a good time to look back and recognize how lucky I was personally to grow up in Delaware … Continue reading

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Canada

I am in Canada for a few days of visiting customers here. Just like so many of our customers, the Canadians know that NetApp makes great products, they call Zerowait because they need an affordable way to expand and maintain … Continue reading

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A setting Sun?

According to the Wall Street Journal, Sun Microsystems is planning a 15% cut in its workforce. Perhaps one of the major problems for Sun is that its sales force and margins are based on selling proprietary hardware. And like most … Continue reading

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A new type of network appliance

One of my friends sent me this patent to see if it was something that our company would be interested in. After reading the abstract and summary it reinforced my belief that there are several applications in the world where … Continue reading

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Sun’s Amber Road ZFS solution

The Wall Street Journal today has a short article on the Sun ZFS solution. We have some customers who have switched to the Sun Thumper solution and for their smaller storage applications they seem to like it. Other customers are … Continue reading

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An interesting data point

John Chambers of Cisco is forecasting a decline in sales. Sales will decline as much as 10 percent in the second quarter, which ends in January, Chambers said yesterday on a conference call. In August, he predicted a gain of … Continue reading

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Cloud computing can be stormy

Cloud Computing seems to be the ‘hot’ term now. But it seems like it might turn into another way for vendor’s to lock customers into their services. Service providers won’t admit this, but once they’ve got your data, they’ll try … Continue reading

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