Author Archives: steven

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing. – W. Edwards Deming . In my college years working on my business degree I studied production and inventory control methods. A … Continue reading →

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Sun-Tzu I saw a headline today that made me think that NetApp is really starting to fear the second level storage companies who have a lower cost solution for reliable high availability … Continue reading →

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck NetApp has recently put on a push to engage the channel to help it ramp up NetApp’s anemic sales numbers. In the past, NetApp has used the … Continue reading →

What good can come out of an Options probe? Can a company where the Executives are focused on short term personal gain build products that have long term value?Backdating Fine May Set ModelBrocade Is the First to PayPenalty in Options … Continue reading →

NetApp’s stock is in the doldrums – I wonder how long it will be before they reduce staff just like Dell is doing? TECHNOLOGY ALERTfrom The Wall Street Journal.May 31, 2007Dell unveiled plans to reduce its work force by 10% … Continue reading →

Cyberwar fiction and reality. A lot of folks have been writing about the situation in Estonia. I think the graphic above pretty much sums up the situation. People are real concerned about the security of their data, but what happens … Continue reading →

Which way is NetApp going to sell more product through its resellers? Will threats increase sales more than sales incentives? Won’t sales incentives merely be passed through as lower prices to customers anyway? NetApp’s CEO said that he wants Resellers … Continue reading →

Another holiday weekend of catching up. Reading the reports of NetApp’s sales problems you would think that the storage industy was in a slump. But Zerowait’s service and support contracts for NetApp legacy equipment continue to grow. There are a … Continue reading →

Are NetApp sales slumping because of their customers perception of a steady decline in customer service and support or because of slumping overall slumping IT spending? SAN FRANCISCO, May 23 (Reuters) – Network Appliance Inc.’s (NTAP.O: Quote, Profile , Research) … Continue reading →

Is new NetApp equipment more of a maintenance and support hog than Isilon?According to this Wall Street Journal Article it might be. For some companies, buying tech gear from a start-up is a first. Geophysical mapping firm Arcis Corp., for … Continue reading →