Author Archives: steven

A small problem at a vendor, can cause a big headache for NAS and SAN customers. When a critical part of your data infrastructure is broken and your customers are unable to get their crucial data, your business can suffer … Continue reading →

Highly Valued storage on a commodity storage platform? The other day I saw an email on The Toasters mailing list of NetApp users regarding the certification by Oracle of StoreVault – the new SMB aimed product by NetApp. I have … Continue reading →

Compliments for our Complementary support I just got off the phone with a customer who was telling me that our service and support was fantastic and he can’t understand why NetApp doesn’t see our legacy support as a complementary service … Continue reading →

The other day, one of our engineers and I flew into CYTZ – Toronto Island Airport to visit with some of our customers in Toronto. I told our engineer that landing at Toronto Island provides some great opportunities for some … Continue reading →

Ken Lay’s Golden Egg Over the last few years we have heard a lot of complaining about Ken Lay in the media. But the Computer Storage business should try to make him into a Saint. Before the collapse of Enron … Continue reading →

NetApp Storevault Lately it seems like everyone wants my comments on Storevault by NetApp. All I know about the product is what I have read in articles on the Internet and heard from other folks. About a month ago we … Continue reading →

Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has some interesting views on the Internet, VOIP and Email, that will give us all confidence in our legislative branch’s understanding of technology. Enjoy this over the holiday… Your Own Personal Internet The Senate Commerce … Continue reading →

StorageWiki – A very cool resource I like the idea of a Free NAS solution, especially for the SMB market. Buy some cheap drives, put free software on a cheap server, and invest the money for corporate growth! I know … Continue reading →

The coming Data Explosion – will there be a need for short term Caching? I have been reading a lot more about the coming of RFID. It seems everyone agrees that this will cause a data explosion with manufacturing, distribution … Continue reading →

Zerowait High AvailabilityOver the last 17 years in business our company has earned a reputation for High Availability in Networking and Storage design. There have been many technology changes in the marketplace and the equipment that we use to build … Continue reading →