Author Archives: steven

NetApp invests in Qlusters. I thought this is an interesting development because NetApp, HP, and IBM are all partners of this company that former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins is running. See here “Qlusters, the Linux-based clustering operating systems start-up, has … Continue reading →

Brocade’s former CEO is going to jail, he focused on personal short term profits, and not long term company value. And he is going to pay the price for it. I put together some random thoughts on this issue below. … Continue reading →

Why independent monitoring & review is so important. Over the last few weeks a couple of very large companies have embraced our ZHA Exception Reporter monitoring tool. There are a few reasons for this but the primary reason is that … Continue reading →

Customers are our best sales people Last month I was visiting with a customer in California, and he told me how much of a pleasure it is to work with Zerowait. We were having dinner at a very nice restaurant, … Continue reading →

Now one Appliance can Toast, Griddle and make your Coffee! Buy one today! Last month I was visiting with a customer who has a considerable investment in his NetApp storage infrastructure. Management of his storage is becoming cumbersome because it has … Continue reading →

“To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human.” Arthur Bloch Yesterday one of my readers suggested I read the Blog of Dave Hitz. Dave is a founder of NetApp and has made a lot … Continue reading →

It looks like the folks at Sun are going to get serious about going after NetApp’s NAS position in the market. Over the last year it seems to me that NetApp is focusing on SAN installations more, which may create … Continue reading →

Jeff Browning explains NetApp Snapshots and the trade off’s in this blog entry very well. It is worth reading the whole blog, his explanations are better than anything I could write. Here are some short excerpts…“NetApp’s snapshots actually occurred as … Continue reading →

Over the last few months there has been a significant increase in the interest in Load Balancing as a solution customers are looking at to provide high availability to their internal users and external websites. Coincidentally, the folks at Barracuda … Continue reading →

Round Numbers are Always False – Samuel Johnson Lately I have seen a lot of babble about Green Data Centers. Cristóbal Conde, says…“According to some reports, the energy consumption of server systems doubled between 2000 and 2005. Companies now spend … Continue reading →