Author Archives: steven

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill – Wilbur Wright Just as Orville and Wilbur found out, if you study the fundementals you will learn that the common knowledge is often misleading or just … Continue reading →

Holiday NetApp Transferable license specials: FAS980’s with NFSFAS940’s available with NFS / CIFS and ClusterR150’s with NFS / CIFSR100’s with NFS / CIFS Many of our customers like to keep their environments as homogeneous as possible so we also have … Continue reading →

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.”Henry Ford * Beginning – Zerowait started introducing customers to NetApp’s products in 1998 when we signed our reseller agreement. Our understanding of High Availability infrastructures made it … Continue reading →

When Partners Compete Customers win! From Toasters the mailing list of NetApp’s users – a way to get better pricing on NetApp equipment. Make IBM & NetApp compete with each other!We just went with a few IBM boxes here. We … Continue reading →

And now for something completely different. My buddy Greg’s amphicar has been swimming!

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll A couple of times a week I will get a call or be talking to a prospective customer who has a massive problem in … Continue reading →

“Competition creates better products, alliances create better companies.” Brian Graham With Topio, NetApp and its partners get two key benefits, starting with low-cost disaster recovery, according to Rogers. “This will be quite popular with our customers. Now our NearStore solution … Continue reading →

Sticker Shock: The FAS3070 starts at roughly $115,000 for a system with 1 TB of capacity and is available now. According to NetApp, its closest competitor is EMC Corp.’s CX3-80. I think most people would agree that the closest competitor … Continue reading →

Another SNW trade show is over and in the record books. On Friday, I flew home after the SNW show my first leg was from ISM to LBT, I filed IFR and after take off I was vectored through Orlando’s … Continue reading →

SNW in Orlando On Tuesday I flew from Delaware to Kissimee,FL for the SNW show. It was a perfect flight down the east coast at 8000 feet. Yesterday, I went to the show and met with a lot of folks. … Continue reading →