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Our Australian business is now over a year old, and is growing strongly. I am working with our team here for a couple of weeks, and visiting with several customers in the Oil and Gas business, FX business, and financial … Continue reading →

Several of our customers have been asking us questions about the viability and future of public cloud storage based on the recent government shutdown of MegaUpload. The concern is that, due to the malfeasance of another customer on a shared cyberlocker … Continue reading →

1) Your CapEx budget for Network Storage infrastructure. 2) Your OpEx budget for Operation expenses like service and support. 3) Zerowait’s international service and support business for NetApp hardware. Well, that was pretty easy. Zerowait’s service and support business is … Continue reading →

Usually our business gets slower through December and January, but the last couple of months have been a whirlwind of new orders from our established customers and many new customers. According to our customers our business is increasing for many … Continue reading →

The uncertainty surrounding the enterprise disk marketplace seems to be causing EMC to mention that it has a disk shortage and there will be a price increase.  Dave Raffo in  his blog has the following interesting information: EMC vice chairman … Continue reading →

Yesterday afternoon I had a long conversation with a customer of ours in California that told me that they were looking at some new  NetApp storage equipment, but were told by their Salesperson that the floods in Thailand have rippled … Continue reading →

2011 Is shaping up to be the best year ever for Zerowait’s independent NetApp support business. We have already surpassed last year’s sales of our Zerowait Parts Assurance contracts on NetApp equipment from our offices in the USA, UK, and … Continue reading →

Over the years I have advocated that organizations embrace a Disaster Prevention model instead of a Disaster Recovery model. Using server load balancers and some multiple MX records it is relatively easy to create a high availability web presence.  Creating … Continue reading →

This week I was at the Supercomputer show in Seattle visiting with our customers and friends. I ran into people Zerowait has been doing business with all over the show floor and it was hard to walk down an aisle … Continue reading →

The path to a successful storage archive solution should not start with a Root Cause Analysis.   Looking back and pointing fingers is often the easiest path to take, but reviewing your storage strategy and current infrastructure may reveal a very … Continue reading →