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Over the last couple of weeks I was visiting customers internationally and I was surprised at how many customers are trying out www.isilon.com . The reason they are trying Isilon is price, or at least that is what I was … Continue reading →

Over the last couple of weeks I have been traveling to visit customers in many locations. Can you guess where I was last week from the picture? Our domestic and international customers are looking at how to squeeze more out … Continue reading →

Often the trade press is filled with regurgitated press releases which don’t give a very good analysis of the companies and strategies that are winning customers and markets. But I just read a very good article that I would suggest … Continue reading →

According to many analysts the enterprise storage market has been shrinking and NetApp and EMC are slugging it out for market share. The NAS (network attached storage) market declined 6.7 percent year over year, led by EMC with 39.0 percent … Continue reading →

Data Domain may be the most popular company in the Storage niche in the last few days. In hard economic times it pays for customers to want to save money by increasing their storage efficiency and de-duplication makes a lot … Continue reading →

Over the last week many people have asked my opinion of this acquisition. I was not surprised that NetApp purchased Data Domain, I know quite a few former NetApp folks who work there, and it will be interesting to see … Continue reading →

The EMC World show was great. From a trade show marketing point of view it was probably one of the best shows we have ever attended. The attendees understood the storage industry and were looking for answers to their storage … Continue reading →

The first day of the show at EMC world was really great. Our trade show booth was busy the whole time, and there were a lot of folks that really were happy to see us there. We saw quite a … Continue reading →

Next week Zerowait will be exhibiting at EMC World in Orlando at booth 149. It is going to be a great trade show and we are looking forward to seeing many of our customers and friends there. Even in the … Continue reading →

Many years ago NetApp purchased their disk arrays from a company called Eurologic. These arrays known as the NetApp FC7, FC8 and FC9 were quite reliable and Eurologic was working on a new set of arrays when Xyratex came out … Continue reading →