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Trust but Verify week part 3 Hey NetApp – what does Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) mean to you? Please define….. Read the complete interview that the excerpts below are from. the Australian (Interviewer) Over time do you see NetApp … Continue reading →

Trust but Verify week part 2 Partnerships for the common good are great for everyone involved, but long term partnerships require trust and verification. NetApp has a history of making statements supporting strategic relationships with manufacturing and reseller partners. However, … Continue reading →

Trust but Verify week – Part 1 Last week while driving between appointments I got some time to think about a statement by NetApp which seems to raise a lot of questions. “With revenues up 36% over Q3 of last … Continue reading →

I spent the last few days in Dallas and Austin. It was great getting together with our customers and hearing how much they like our customer service and engineering support for their filers. Almost every customer was interested in the … Continue reading →

Last week we learned that NetApp’s executives consider IBM sales efforts incremental. If that is the case , then I suspect after looking up IBM sales numbers, that IBM management must consider their rebranded NetApp sales insignificant to their bottom … Continue reading →

This could be significant. After all the speculation, Dell has announced it will start selling computers with pre-installed Linux distributions instead of Microsoft Windows.

NetApp says that IBM’s branded sales are just incremental. Tom Mendoza, president of NetApp, said that improving sales through IBM is not affecting NetApp’s solution providers. “IBM is very focused on what I call white space, which is where we … Continue reading →

It is always nice when we get a letter like this… Hi Mike, Thank you for your letter following up on the order we placed. I am impressed by the quality of customer service that your company has provided, and … Continue reading →

One of our customers read the Google study in the previous post and sent along this link and the conclusion is fascinating. I certainly hope that all our customers will read this . You can download it here Disk failures … Continue reading →

Google releases significant research paper on Disk Failure. Download it here   I wonder why NetApp has not done this research, or if they have why didn’t they release it? Perhaps they can do a follow up study on FC … Continue reading →