Author Archives: steven

NetApp VP says NetApp is working to reduce storage costs. Are they reducing their costs of hardware support? NoAre they extending the life of your legacy equipment ? No They are going to sell another piece of hardware & software … Continue reading →

Traveling home from San Francisco today! It has been a productive week in the bay area, we saw 12 clients and caught up with old friends at the brewery in Burlingame. I have to leave in a few minutes to … Continue reading →

The industry consolidates a little bit more. BOSTON (Reuters) – Data storage equipment maker Brocade Communications Systems Inc. said on Tuesday that it would buy McData Corp. for $4.61 per share, or $713 million. That’s a 48 percent premium to … Continue reading →

The main stream computer magazines are asking the same questions we have raised in this blog. The NetApp StoreVault offering is the same beast. Sure, you can get a 1 TB unit that does snapshots for under $5K, but looking … Continue reading →

NetApp’s Cosmic Failures A regular reader who recognizes that our team is very savvy about NetApp called me and asked if I knew about NetApp’s Cosmic Failures. I thought he meant Cosmic Features. But as I learned, he meant failures. … Continue reading →

Warren Buffet speaks about abuse of Stock Options – but the whole article is worth reading“Too often, executive compensation in the U.S. is ridiculously out of line with performance,” Buffett wrote in the most recent annual letter to shareholders of … Continue reading →

“Man is the only animal that blushes – or needs to.” Mark TwainMore Trouble for Brocade NEW YORK, July 20 (Reuters) – Workers at technology company Brocade Communications Systems Inc. (BRCD.O: Quote, Profile, Research) altered hiring records and employed people … Continue reading →

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” Groucho Marx http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=85225Relentless IT security threats generated from viruses and worms, and legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA and PCI require … Continue reading →

Mike I’m going to take up your generous offer today. I realize that much of your audience may be NetApp customers, however they could benefit from the two resources that I’d like to share below. We’re offering this to bloggers … Continue reading →

But the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it…. Malcolm Forbes Success – Now watch as your market share declines! In the late 1990’s NetApp’s NAS technology was an education sale. Zerowait’s employees worked very hard to teach our customers … Continue reading →