Author Archives: Mike

  Feeling trapped? Zerowait is on your side! Hello, To primitive societies, technology seems to be magic. Even modern types fall for illusions. In fact, Harry Houdini became famous in the early 20th century using complex mechanisms to fool his … Continue reading →

How We Solved our Disaster Recovery Problem Using Standard Tools and a Bit of Creativity Written by: Chris Mire, Engineering Manager At Zerowait, we have been wrestling with our Disaster Recovery implementation for many years. We had looked at the … Continue reading →

Who can explain the mysteries of corporate mergers and product support? Not our NetApp Filer customers who purchased Isilon equipment for non-critical storage needs because it was priced below their NetApp equipment. We have heard from many of them that … Continue reading →

Are the mysteries of NetApp pricing and policies holding your business back? Over the last 20 years we have helped hundreds of NetApp customers around the world decipher the secrets to affordable NetApp solutions. Every customer has different requirements and … Continue reading →

  Our automotive racing customers need to rely on their Pit Crew to win races, and they depend on Zerowait to make certain that their storage systems can keep them in the lead. Our customers are winners, and they need … Continue reading →

 Zerowait – Our 20th Year Providing NetApp Service and Support. Is your data storage reliable and will it handle the storage growth you expect this year? Are you looking at alternatives to deal with the expected growth? What about data … Continue reading →

Is your data storage infrastructure growing in volume and complexity at a faster rate than your storage budget is?  While some of your data storage requires storage from  this year’s winner in the magic quadrant, there is probably a large … Continue reading →

Over the last few months I have been traveling around the USA and visiting with many of our international customers. Our customers seem to be concerned about three main issues: storage security on cloud providers, how to manage their growing … Continue reading →

In discussing with our customers their NetApp and archival storage needs, quite a few have brought up the bloatware that big systems vendors and software vendors are pushing. They want to know why vendors won’t unbundle their software packages and … Continue reading →

Creating a budget is hard work, but keeping to it can be harder. So to give you some ideas on how to do that, here are some of the ways we helped our customers stretch their storage budgets in 2017.Creating … Continue reading →