Author Archives: Mike

We listened to our customers: Many of our customers knew that we had deployed over 10PB in Surveillance storage over the last couple of years, and they asked if we could integrate the SimplStor storage platform with IP cameras, POE … Continue reading →

Over the last couple of weeks I have been visiting customers in Texas and Oklahoma and one customer of ours who went to NetApp to renew support on a FAS32XX filer with minimal storage was apoplectic when he saw the price … Continue reading →

Many of our customers are still trying to answer this question and I have had quite a few of our customers send me links to the WikiBon report http://wikibon.com/assessing-the-cost-of-netapp-ontap-migrations-in-oracle-environments/ This report, written by David Floyer, does a very good job … Continue reading →

Zerowait Corporation is pleased to welcome Tom Heubner as VP of Sales in EMEA. Tom will be working out of our Manchester offices and is available to talk to you about all your requirements for support, service and upgrades of … Continue reading →

Over the last few weeks I have been traveling throughout Australia and New Zealand visiting our customers, many of whom are in the Movie, Gaming and VFX business sectors. I’ll see some of them again next week in Las Vegas … Continue reading →

Let’s start here:  Your NetApp hardware is working fine (as usual), but your NetApp sales rep is proposing a 400% increase in support costs anyway.  And, of course, the alternate proposal is an upgrade to a new cDot system, which … Continue reading →

A lot of our customers are being forced to reduce their storage budgets because of the poor/uncertain profit picture caused by globally volatile finance and markets. Although their budgets are being squeezed their requirements for high availability and additional storage … Continue reading →

“Those that know don’t speak, those that speak don’t know” is an expression I hear often from engineers when we are discussing their legacy network and storage infrastructure. The New Year came in with a bunch of economic surprises and … Continue reading →

2015 was another interesting year in which Zerowait worked with our customers to help them overcome their data storage issues. The majority of our business remains the service and support of NetApp equipment around the world, and we added many … Continue reading →

Have you ever noticed that when you focus on the details of an issue that you often loose focus on the big picture, and when you focus on the big picture you end up not getting the whole story? We … Continue reading →