Author Archives: Mike

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 →

SIMPLSTOR Z: Perfect Replacement Or Upgrade For Legacy NetApp Equipment SimplStor Z Storage Base Server with 100TB raw storage, OpenZFS filesystem installed on CentO/S Linux. Can be easily upgraded for capacity and performance. High Availability clustering available. Includes native encryption, deduplication, … Continue reading →

Do you need to reduce your storage acquisition and maintenance costs? Are you tired of the issues with NetApp’s proprietary software and operating system? Times have changed: Linux and OpenZFS are full featured and secure. Additionally, Zerowait will help you … Continue reading →

Storage Upgrades and Migrations: Easy as 1, 2, 3. Zerowait will keep your NetApp running until you decide the time is right for a complete storage upgrade. We offer 24×7 hardware support, expansion shelves and expert NetApp help on-call, even … Continue reading →