Author Archives: steven

Tom Mendoza is highlighted in the Wall Street Journal today in a very good piece. I met Tom twice at two succeeding NetApp Reseller conferences, the first time was in the Hayes conference center in San Jose and the second … Continue reading →

Over the years Zerowait has had many customer conferences at different locations around the country. For a few years we had our conferences in Key west every May, and these conferences were a big hit. This year we are having … Continue reading →

Every day we work hard to make certain that our customers are satisfied, and it is great when we get feedback like this. *****************************************Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:26 PM You guys are great! Thanks again! E *****************************************

Summer is starting and with higher energy prices there might be some incentives for raising the thermostats in your Data Centers. However, one thing we have noticed over the years of supporting hard drives in the field is that higher … Continue reading →

There is an announcement today that NetApp plans to increase its direct sales force. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based NetApp (Nasdaq: NTAP), a data storage company that employs roughly 700 in the Triangle, plans on boosting its sales force by hundreds of workers … Continue reading →

Last week I was in New England visiting some of our customers . It was a great trip and it looks like we will picking up some more business from our clients. All the folks I met with are trying … Continue reading →

Since IBM started reselling NetApp products a few years ago savvy customers have been playing the two companies sales organizations against each other. Now it seems analysts are noticing this is causing some consternation in the competitive channel organizations. This … Continue reading →

To say that many enterprise IT departments are cutting back on their IT expenditures would not be surprising to many of our customers. But it is interesting to notice that the Wall Street Journal has written an article on the … Continue reading →

An interesting note in today’s Byte and Switch caught my attention. Pacific Growth Equities analyst Kaushik Roy discussed a possible Fujitsu/Exanet deal in a report on NetApp last week: “We are concerned that NetApp’s second largest OEM customer Fujitsu Siemens … Continue reading →

What does virtualization mean anyway? “[Virtualization is] a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources. This includes making a single physical resource (such … Continue reading →