Author Archives: Mike

The Opportunities are Endless.

Over the last couple of months I have been in Australia, New Zealand, and all around the USA meeting with customers and business partners. Keeping connected with our customers is how we stay focused on providing the NetApp and SimplStor … Continue reading

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What I would do as NetApp CEO

The first rule of a successful business is to listen to your customers and give them what they want. NetApp has a great product and a loyal customer base. However, it seems that NetApp has become a self-absorbed company that … Continue reading

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Similarities between the DMV and your OEM Support?

We have houses in two states. We therefore have cars in two states. However, we can only be a resident of one of those states. This month one or our cars came due for registration renewal, so we turned to … Continue reading

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The Reality of QoS and SLA’s on Legacy Filers

Many NetApp customers around the world have both new and legacy systems and are trying to maintain high availability in a mixed storage infrastructure of different vintages, with different OnTap and firmware versions. In most cases the newer equipment is … Continue reading

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Big Oil – Big Data – Big Savings

During the boom of the last few years the oil and gas business bought a lot of storage equipment.  Zerowait has several oil and gas clients that use our NetApp ZPA legacy support, and some have supplemented their NetApp storage … Continue reading

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Peak Performance

The end of the year is a time for reflection on this year’s events and planning for next year’s business opportunities. Our customers faced a lot of challenges this year and so did we as the economy changed, the internet … Continue reading

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Breaking: U.S. Government Funding Bill Delays IANA Transition

http://www.internetcommerce.org/breaking-u-s-government-funding-bill-delays-iana-transition/ On the evening of Tuesday, September 9th, Congressional leaders unveiled a 1,603 page, $1.01 trillion FY 2015 appropriations bill to fund the U.S. government through the end of September 2015. One provision of the omnibus bill would delay the … Continue reading

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Customer Conversations and Product Development

I will start this blog by mentioning that I travel a lot; as a business owner I believe that it is important to visit our customers, and as our business has grown internationally this requires me to travel a lot … Continue reading

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Work Arounds

Over the last few months we have been rebuilding our network infrastructure which has been evolving with our business over the last 25 years. The last major upgrade we did was in 2002 and since then there have been a … Continue reading

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The sun is setting on a free and open internet.

Zerowait has grown into an international company due to the internet and our customers communicate with us from all parts of the globe. We use VPN’s, on line meetings, messaging   and VOIP  with our customers no matter where they … Continue reading

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