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ESJ has an interesting article that I suggest folks looking into cloud computing read. The author, Henry Newman, lays out quite a few issues with bandwidth and recovery time using a cloud storage provider. An excerpt: The bandwidth problem isn’t … Continue reading →

I thought this was an interesting article – By Nicole Kobie, 5 Oct 2009 at 12:28Confused man with his head in his hands Microsoft knows its licensing is a problem, but don’t expect it to get any simpler anytime soon, … Continue reading →

Today’s news confirmed what I heard during my recent trip across the country visiting with our customers. Budgets are tight, and investment in hardware and human resources is going to be slowed by the uncertainty of what the costs of … Continue reading →

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 →