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Growing in a shrinking market

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

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Courting Data Domain

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

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NetApp and Data Domain

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

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Impressions from the EMC World show

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

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EMC world day one

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

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EMC WORLD Next week

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

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Are Dot Hill’s shipments hurting Xyratex sales

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

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A sense of humor

Many times a day we get to laugh with our customers over something that happens or an interesting turn of a phrase in a piece of marketing material or in press release. Sometimes people send us an email with a … Continue reading

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Affordable Long Term High Availability.

Over the last few months our business has been holding up well, we have seen an uptick in business over the same quarter last year and we have picked up quite a number of new customers. Many of the new … Continue reading

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D/R Planning in the Clouds

What is your D/R plan when part of your business critical data is in the cloud and the fiber lines are cut? How do you make a smooth landing and keep your critical business data running if you don’t have … Continue reading

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