Over the last few months we have seen an increase in interest in our NetApp support services, and the interest has turned into a lot of new customers and orders. Based on the conversations that our staff has had with our new customers I think there is a combination of reasons for the increase in our business.
First, NetApp is giving their customers End of Life (EOL) notifications on a lot of equipment. For many enterprises upgrading to new 64 bit equipment is not currently an option in their budget plans.
Second, there is fear in the boardrooms of many organizations that we are in an era reminiscent of the 1970’s stagflation. One of my friends sent me this link this morning which describes the concerns in his company’s executive office well:
“With inflation rising and GDP forecasts continuing to be revised downward, fears of stagflation have crept back into the economy, with the economy hovering in a dangerous position between two possible outcomes: recovery or crash.
Stagflation is a sort of market purgatory, while we wait for one of two possibilities. Either the economy will recover and we’ll have inflation, or the economy will continue to stagnate, and we’ll end up with deflation.
While we will eventually work our way out of stagflation, inflation is hard to maintain if the global economy goes into a slowdown or decline. When the economy does begin to recover, it will bring inflation.
With QE2, Fed Chairman Bernanke has opened Pandora’s box, and once you open the box, it’s hard to control. When the banks start lending again, it will unleash the reserves that the Fed has pumped into the economy and there will be big inflation.”
Whether your company is trying to maintain legacy NetApp equipment, or trying to reduce expenditures due to economic fears, Zerowait has affordable solutions for NetApp service and support. Additionally, our SimplStor is a complementary archive storage alternative which starts at just $20,000.00 for 68 TB.
