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I have been traveling over the last few weeks visiting customers around the Northwest. The story is the same pretty much everywhere… Budgets are tight, and our customers are looking for value in their storage support services. The tough economy … Continue reading →

2009 has been a tumultuous business year and many of our customers have cut back on new equipment purchases. Today in the Wall Street Journal there was an article with the following headline. “Business Bankruptcy Filings Increased 7% in October” … Continue reading →

Over the last several weeks we have been talking to customers about what they like and dislike about their storage providers. Listening to the stories of what they are told by their OEM salesman and engineers and comparing that to … Continue reading →

A lot of the trade press is talking about cloud computing and even the Economist has gotten the bug. That surprised me because the cloud is a fairly technical concept. “Granted, there are hundreds if not thousands of firms offering … Continue reading →

A lot of our customers and friends will be at the SC09 show in Portland this year. I have been invited to the show, and will be working with a few of our customers on how to mange and reduce … Continue reading →

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 →