Monthly Archives: July 2009

What is next?

Over the last couple of months as I have watched EMC and NetApp’s bidding war unfold for Data Domain it seemed to me that many folks have forgotten what got NetApp to where they are today. Dave Hitz and his … Continue reading

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Is Zerowait a Solution Provider?

Of course we are, but we don’t fit the standard model. Zerowait provides creative solutions to customers’ storage requirements every day. For example our Legacy NetApp service contracts provides customers who are looking to redeploy their superseded NetApp equipment into … Continue reading

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Another week of travel

This week I visited customers in the Southeast. It is always great to stop by and see our customers and see how they are coping with the economic environment. Most of the customers I saw are expanding their use of … Continue reading

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Vendor TCO estimates might not be realistic

I was not surprised to read this article on Byte and Switch today. I have long thought that performance and Benchmark numbers were suspect in the storage and networking world. Highlights of the article: * Driven by a general sense … Continue reading

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Green Shoots or Dead Roots?

Over the holiday weekend I got together with a bunch of my friends who own businesses or are executives in companies. We had a chance to talk about what they see in their businesses and there was not a lot … Continue reading

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Analysts project storage growth

According to an article by Chris Mellor : The Enterprise Strategy Group is forcasting a sixfold growth in file archive capacity, from a little over 10,000PB in 2008 to 62,000PB in 2012 This seems to one of the few bright … Continue reading

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