Monthly Archives: August 2009

An affordable archive

Did you ever notice that there is an inverse relationship between data archiving budgets and data archiving growth. Data that is accessed once on a blue moon is expensive to store on spinning media, and it is hard to keep … Continue reading

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Deficits, Dollars and Storage

The Wall Street Journal has an article today on the growing deficit and the possibilities of inflation that it will cause. If the Dollar’s value drops I would expect that the US cost of obtaining storage components from Asia will … Continue reading

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Visiting the Northeast

Last week I visited customers in NH, MA and NY. None of the customers were talking about any green shoots in their budgets. As a matter of fact, all the customers were looking for ways in which we could help … Continue reading

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Perception

Many folks in the data storage industry associate Zerowait with independent NetApp service and support. But many of our customers know that we do much more than just NetApp service and support. The picture is supposed to illustrate that Zerowait’s … Continue reading

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Moving data to the lowest cost location

Energy and power costs are a big part of the decision process when it comes to locating data storage or a complete data center for a company. An MIT PHD student has just created an algorithm to help companies serve … Continue reading

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The need for legacy support

Zerowait is in the legacy service and support business. It is a niche business, that is expensive for OEM’s to handle, but it is important to the end users we support. Legacy systems are inevitable because networks are never completely … Continue reading

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Is NetApp going to be acquired?

Whenever NetApp acquisition rumors start I get customers and analysts calling to ask what I think of the news. Yesterday afternoon it seems another rumor was floated and folks wanted to know my thoughts. Tech Rumor of the Day: NetApp … Continue reading

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In Sourcing Zerowait

Over the last few weeks I have heard from a number of companies that they are cutting back on staff. They want to know if Zerowait can assist them with their storage network management on an ongoing basis. And the … Continue reading

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