Author Archives: Mike

Our neighbor in Texas, Monty Hilliard, invited us to join his family at the North Texas Fairand Rodeo, where his children would be showing their pigs. Today, July and I went to watch our friends Ashlee and Robbie Hillard compete. … Continue reading →

I don’t think anyone has a crystal ball that will provide a road map of how to navigate the roadblocks being erected so suddenly and seemingly everywhere. War, economic sanctions, and other efforts will likely hinder the free trade of … Continue reading →

  Help is at hand! It used to be easy to simply upgrade or migrate to a newer NetApp solution when the time came. Now, however, supply chain interruptions have made it horrendously difficult. Not only are OEM’s determined to … Continue reading →

One thing three decades in IT gives you is perspective. Over that time our industry has swung like a pendulum, into and out of dozens of computing trends. With the waning of COVID-19 over the next few months, I predict … Continue reading →

Happy Holidays! Zerowait is known world-wide for our expert 3rd party NetApp support. Keeping legacy filers going is what we do. At the same time, we recognize that for some customers, an open-source, non-proprietary solution might be better. For those customers … Continue reading →

Recently, some of our NetApp ONTAP users asked for our help in solving the hassle of snapmirror version incompatibilities. What they wanted was to easily move their different versions of ONTAP data between their different filers. By leveraging SimplStor Z’s native capabilities … Continue reading →

Cloud billing is notoriously treacherous and purposely incomprehensible. How many times have you received an egregious bill for your cloud services and thought – wait, what? API calls, PUTs and GETs, oh my. With the introduction of our new SimplStor … Continue reading →

Do you need to keep your legacy NetApp running beyond OEM-mandated End-of-Life? Zerowait has expert engineering, global spares, and support plans to meet every budget. We will keep your NetApp filer running like new until you are ready to replace it. Do … Continue reading →