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What do the best known companies in Oil, Power Tools, & Disk Drives have in common?

They all use Zerowait’s SimplStor products for their fast growing data storage requirements.  Storage is growing across all business sectors in response to regulatory requirements and the data retention policies that continue to blossom. These companies all recognize the value … Continue reading

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Zerowait’s Federal Business is up!

There was an article in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal about NetApp and the problems they are having in the Federal space. “By ROLFE WINKLER Tech investors must be hoping the sector is merely suffering a case of the debt-ceiling sniffles. … Continue reading

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Can you justify your tape costs anymore?

I’ve noted in recent posts the increasing interest in as a replacement/complement for expensive tape backup systems. At only $20,000 for a base 68TB system, SimplStor makes disk to disk backup a viable alternative to tape. Using SimplStor as a … Continue reading

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The cost of doing business

As a business owner I am acutely aware of how much it costs to run a business, and that it costs more to hire employees and provide them the benefits they deserve than it used to. Since a lot of … Continue reading

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Storage solutions for the budget crunch

For most of this week I was visiting clients in North Carolina.  Almost all of the clients I met have an expanding storage requirement but a shrinking budget. The chill of austerity has  finally hit storage budgets. Zerowait offers our … Continue reading

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Zerowait SimplStor installed in Australian Visual FX firm

Sydney, Australia  July 25, 2011 Fuel VFX has added Zerowait’s SimplStor NAS archive to its storage architecture. Using proprietary tiering software developed in house by Fuel VFX, volumes on the 4U, 68TB unit provide nearline access for scripts and a … Continue reading

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A week in Illinois

I was in Illinois last week visiting with several of our customers and while in Chicago I was parked next to the new Marilyn Monroe Statue.   There certainly were a lot of admirers of the statue. We do a lot … Continue reading

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Solving tomorrow’s problems

Over the last few years Zerowait’s growth has been fueled by the recommendations and referrals of our customers. This week I was talking to a customer who first contacted us many years ago based on a referral. Like so many … Continue reading

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Alternatives for NetApp legacy support and archival tape costs

I was visiting customers in the New York and Boston areas last week and we were discussing their plans for their storage infrastructure in 2012.  We discussed the usual complaints about the high cost of proprietary hardware and software used … Continue reading

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Get ready for SEG 2011!

We are getting ready for the SEG show in September in San Antonio. Last year’s show was really great and we met a lot of our customers there and also learned a lot about the  Oil and Gas business. The … Continue reading

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