Author Archives: Mike

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 →

Sydney, Australia  July 25, 2011 Fuel VFX has added Zerowait’s SimplStor NAS archive to its storage architecture. Using proprietary tiering software developed in house by Fuel VFX, volumes on the 4U, 68TB unit provide nearline access for scripts and a … Continue reading →

I was in Illinois last week visiting with several of our customers and while in Chicago I was parked next to the new Marilyn Monroe Statue.   There certainly were a lot of admirers of the statue. We do a lot … Continue reading →

Over the last few years Zerowait’s growth has been fueled by the recommendations and referrals of our customers. This week I was talking to a customer who first contacted us many years ago based on a referral. Like so many … Continue reading →

I was visiting customers in the New York and Boston areas last week and we were discussing their plans for their storage infrastructure in 2012.  We discussed the usual complaints about the high cost of proprietary hardware and software used … Continue reading →

We are getting ready for the SEG show in September in San Antonio. Last year’s show was really great and we met a lot of our customers there and also learned a lot about the  Oil and Gas business. The … Continue reading →

As many of our customers know I have been traveling in Australia and New Zealand visiting our customers here. Interest in our SimplStor storage products is strong among the media, entertainment, insurance and financial industries of Australia and New Zealand. … Continue reading →

Zerowait has been working with NetApp equipment since 1998, and over the years we have diagnosed three common causes for our customers’ headaches: First – NetApp’s post warranty support is very expensive. Second– NetApp uses expensive post warranty support to … Continue reading →

Over the years since we started selling NetApp equipment in 1998 we learned that the Sys Admins and the Network Admins loved their NetApp equipment. The problem for many of the storage folks was that purchasing new NetApp equipment required … Continue reading →