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A friend of mine wrote me the following “Storage is the last bastion of high margins for IT vendors that make proprietary products. Ethernet, fiber channel, wireless and even operating systems have become commodity products. Storage is a commodity and … Continue reading →

I have been traveling around the USA visiting customers for the last two weeks. It has been a long trip and I have heard from a lot of large storage customers that budgets remain constricted. Adding storage capacity that is … Continue reading →

My goodness the guys at Backblaze have gotten people talking about storage value. This morning I heard from one customer of ours who likes the BackBlaze price points who asked if we could provide an enterprise service and support model … Continue reading →

Did you ever notice that there is an inverse relationship between data archiving budgets and data archiving growth. Data that is accessed once on a blue moon is expensive to store on spinning media, and it is hard to keep … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal has an article today on the growing deficit and the possibilities of inflation that it will cause. If the Dollar’s value drops I would expect that the US cost of obtaining storage components from Asia will … Continue reading →

Last week I visited customers in NH, MA and NY. None of the customers were talking about any green shoots in their budgets. As a matter of fact, all the customers were looking for ways in which we could help … Continue reading →

Many folks in the data storage industry associate Zerowait with independent NetApp service and support. But many of our customers know that we do much more than just NetApp service and support. The picture is supposed to illustrate that Zerowait’s … Continue reading →

Energy and power costs are a big part of the decision process when it comes to locating data storage or a complete data center for a company. An MIT PHD student has just created an algorithm to help companies serve … Continue reading →

Zerowait is in the legacy service and support business. It is a niche business, that is expensive for OEM’s to handle, but it is important to the end users we support. Legacy systems are inevitable because networks are never completely … Continue reading →

Whenever NetApp acquisition rumors start I get customers and analysts calling to ask what I think of the news. Yesterday afternoon it seems another rumor was floated and folks wanted to know my thoughts. Tech Rumor of the Day: NetApp … Continue reading →