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Over the last several weeks a friend of mine has been working his way through a recommendation from his hardware vendor as to whether he should upgrade his storage hardware and software. He is being cautious because he has done … Continue reading →

Over the last few months we have seen an increase in interest in our NetApp support services, and the interest has turned into a lot of new customers and orders. Based on the conversations that our staff has had with … Continue reading →

As many of our clients know we occasionally hold training classes for them on issues relating to Filers and storage issues. Above is a class picture of the class that finished today. Our clients asked great questions and we received … Continue reading →

    Sydney Opera House top picture, Auckland Harbor bottom picture I flew back from Sydney on Thursday, and I have been trying to catch up from the trip since I returned. There certainly are a lot of customers in … Continue reading →

As many of our customers know I have been traveling in Australia and New Zealand visiting our customers here. Interest in our SimplStor storage products is strong among the media, entertainment, insurance and financial industries of Australia and New Zealand. … Continue reading →

Zerowait has been working with NetApp equipment since 1998, and over the years we have diagnosed three common causes for our customers’ headaches: First – NetApp’s post warranty support is very expensive. Second– NetApp uses expensive post warranty support to … Continue reading →

Over the years since we started selling NetApp equipment in 1998 we learned that the Sys Admins and the Network Admins loved their NetApp equipment. The problem for many of the storage folks was that purchasing new NetApp equipment required … Continue reading →

Zerowait’s service and support business has been growing at a brisk pace since the beginning of the year and we attribute that to the hesitance of corporations to invest in capital budget equipment like storage arrays. It seems that our … Continue reading →

The linkages between oil prices and our little niche of enterprise storage may seem obscure, but in a global marketplace a small disruption or price fluctuation can cause unexpected anomalies in the supply chain of energy, production and information storage. … Continue reading →

We live in a global marketplace and the interruption of supply in Japan can have an effect on the global storage market. How long will it take before the distribution channels and factory inventories get used up is anybody’s guess. … Continue reading →