Author Archives: Mike

The Oracle Trade show is this week  in San Francisco and NetApp is a Premier sponsor of the show. I’ll bet the Oracle Press release is making for some interesting conversations with customers at the NetApp booth.  “Oracle’s Sun ZFS … Continue reading →

Over the last two weeks I was traveling around the USA visiting customers in NV, TX, AZ, and  CO.   It is a lot of fun to visit with customers and hear them tell me  how Zerowait has made their storage … Continue reading →

Delaware’s Governor Markell visited Zerowait’s HQ today to learn more about our NetApp Storage support , technology, and our fast growing SimplStor product line. We discussed the amount of international business we do and how we are growing our business … Continue reading →

I read an article today that BluArc was purchased by HDS. We have several customers in the Media and entertainment businesses that have some BluArc in their storage environments. “TOKYO | Thu Sep 8, 2011 1:30am EDT (Reuters) – Hitachi … Continue reading →

I saw an interesting article today written by Chris Mellor in which he speculates on why NetApp’s market share may be declining. Firstly, NetApp has slipped from second to third place in the rankings compared to the previous quarter. It … Continue reading →

They all use Zerowait’s SimplStor products for their fast growing data storage requirements.  Storage is growing across all business sectors in response to regulatory requirements and the data retention policies that continue to blossom. These companies all recognize the value … Continue reading →

There was an article in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal about NetApp and the problems they are having in the Federal space. “By ROLFE WINKLER Tech investors must be hoping the sector is merely suffering a case of the debt-ceiling sniffles. … Continue reading →

I’ve noted in recent posts the increasing interest in as a replacement/complement for expensive tape backup systems. At only $20,000 for a base 68TB system, SimplStor makes disk to disk backup a viable alternative to tape. Using SimplStor as a … Continue reading →

As a business owner I am acutely aware of how much it costs to run a business, and that it costs more to hire employees and provide them the benefits they deserve than it used to. Since a lot of … Continue reading →

For most of this week I was visiting clients in North Carolina.  Almost all of the clients I met have an expanding storage requirement but a shrinking budget. The chill of austerity has  finally hit storage budgets. Zerowait offers our … Continue reading →