Author Archives: steven

Recently, I was visiting a NetApp customer with over 50 F760’s which they would like us to support. As NetApp cancels their support options for their customers with the F760 model of equipment we are expanding our service and support … Continue reading →

NetApp finally Publishes Verifiable results!Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with anything technical or related to their Filers Of course their test data is still held hostage and unverifiable.

My trip to Dallas During my trip to Dallas I visited with a few customers and business associates. Ken Barth at Tek Tools suggested that I take my customers to dinner at Del Friscos for dinner, Wow! The food was … Continue reading →

Controversy, crap and confusion – Alan Simpson I was listening to an interview with Alan Simpson this weekend , and this was his quote about the Washington scene. What struck me is how similar it is to the bunk that … Continue reading →

During the snow storm I had to use my 1948 Willy’s to go down my driveway. My Willy’s worked perfectly and it reminded me that appropriate technology never goes out of style. The same is true for your legacy NetApp … Continue reading →

I flew Southwest Airlines to Tampa this week on Sunday. As you may know Southwest is a big NetApp customer. And on Sunday they were having trouble getting planes in and out of the Mid Atlantic States. As I was … Continue reading →

Tampa Clearwater & homeI have been in Florida the last couple of days attending a conference and then visiting customers and also I had lunch with the Jon Toigo and his staff. It has been a rewarding couple of days. … Continue reading →

The future of storage requires a lot of parts from the past, without them your data could be lost. Everyone likes to talk about what the future of storage is going to be like, but very few of the reporters … Continue reading →

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up – Rex Stout NetApp is at it again, I wonder where we can find the verification to this 50% savings they are talking … Continue reading →

Alliances This week I got a call and an email from some folks that are thinking of taking out their NetApp R200’s and NetApp FAS3050’s to replace them with IBM NAS5500’s . I mentioned to the customer that the NAS5500 … Continue reading →