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Sun Purchases StorageTek: Possible Implications Many of our customers are both Sun and StorageTek customers so this acquisition has our interest. Zerowait is concerned about how to help our customers maintain their legacy infrastructures to enable them to get the … Continue reading →

Here is some good news to start your weekend right! In a Forbes article about Pillar Data Systems, you can read, David Hitz, cofounder and head of engineering at NetApp, agrees that low-end storage technologies will move up the performance … Continue reading →

Our thanks to someone at NetApp! Mike doesn’t like to admit this, but not everyone knows about Zerowait, YET. So those who don’t are likely to call NetApp first when they need parts or service. We got a call this … Continue reading →

NetApp’s Grid computing Vision – We don’t get it , and we have been following their changes in direction for years. – I think they are lost. If you can find the road map from these quotes and news stories … Continue reading →

Here I go again, reading between the lines of another NetApp press release. In the latest Press Release, NetApp Unveils Midrange NAS Array, you will see that “Glenn Harper, director of data strategy at New York-based Cendant, said the company … Continue reading →

The weekend is upon us! Here in the U.S. it is a holiday weekend, I don’t know where you are, but we are expecting a very nice weekend, not too hot and not too cold with plenty of sunshine. A … Continue reading →

The phones at Zerowait have been ringing off the hook about transferable licenses for NetApp filers. Ever since Jon Toigo and Mike Linett posted blogs about transferable licenses, people want to know what the real answer is. Many people believe … Continue reading →

Transferable licenses – Yes, Zerowait has them – CIFS, NFS, Cluster & Snapmirror! I am asked this question daily, but because of Jon Toigo’s article in searchstorage we have gotten a flurry of calls today. NetApp does provide transferable licenses. … Continue reading →

“Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.” — Theodore Roosevelt Caveat vendorMay 19th 2005 | NEW YORK>From The Economist print edition A Florida court wallops one of Wall Street’s top investment banks COULD the headlines get any worse … Continue reading →

There was a new press release posted on CRN yesterday, Updated NetApp Line Supports Mixed Drives. On the surface it sounds very nice, and it could be just what you need. However, I am always one to read between the … Continue reading →