Author Archives: steven

Our technology and processes provide our customers with a competitive advantage! In order to provide our customers with better service than the OEM does we had to develop faster and better systems for service and support. At first these systems … Continue reading →

“first do no harm” – from the Hippocratic oath ( well, sort of). Don’t you wish that Enterprise storage vendors felt that way? It seems that many companies believe that storage vendors don’t care about the damage they cause their … Continue reading →

The tighter your grip, the fewer seeds of grain you can hold in your hand. Yesterday I was in NYC visiting with clients that were furious at NetApp’s escalating costs of maintenance, and also the pace of change on ESH’s … Continue reading →

Unintended consequences of disk to disk back up. Recently a number of our clients have been told that they can’t get any more power into their data centers. After asking some questions, I found that a number of them have … Continue reading →

NetApp and HP are after the same market segment. The SMB market.Hewlett-Packard has a major crush on the small and medium-sized business market and has announced a new model in its All-in-One Storage line and shuffled some executives to help … Continue reading →

Has IBM tired of dancing with NetApp? I have always thought it strange that IBM would be a reseller of NetApp equipment, making very marginal rates of return for its stockholders. It just makes more business sense for IBM to … Continue reading →

Every company goes through its ups and downs, according to this report it looks like NetApp SAN solutions may be in for a rough ride. Only time will tell.“It appears that NetApp’s move into the SAN market is meeting some … Continue reading →

Does $50,000.00 a TB sound expensive to you? NetApp’s newest software costs that much.ReplicatorX is available now for $50,000 per Tbyte of replicated data. Let’s do some simple math on a typical small NetApp system which has 10TB on it … Continue reading →

If you think the Enterprise Storage business is nuts, just try to figure out Congress. From Economist: Dubai Aerospace agreed to buy two aircraft-maintenance companies in North America, one in Canada, the other in Arizona, from Carlyle Group for $1.8 … Continue reading →

The strange world of enterprise storage Something weird is going on here,” said Arun Taneja, founder and analyst with the Taneja Group, who said he’d been working with NeoPath since the company’s inception and had not been aware of the … Continue reading →