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Is Zerowait a Solution Provider?

Of course we are, but we don’t fit the standard model. Zerowait provides creative solutions to customers’ storage requirements every day. For example our Legacy NetApp service contracts provides customers who are looking to redeploy their superseded NetApp equipment into … Continue reading

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Another week of travel

This week I visited customers in the Southeast. It is always great to stop by and see our customers and see how they are coping with the economic environment. Most of the customers I saw are expanding their use of … Continue reading

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Vendor TCO estimates might not be realistic

I was not surprised to read this article on Byte and Switch today. I have long thought that performance and Benchmark numbers were suspect in the storage and networking world. Highlights of the article: * Driven by a general sense … Continue reading

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Green Shoots or Dead Roots?

Over the holiday weekend I got together with a bunch of my friends who own businesses or are executives in companies. We had a chance to talk about what they see in their businesses and there was not a lot … Continue reading

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Analysts project storage growth

According to an article by Chris Mellor : The Enterprise Strategy Group is forcasting a sixfold growth in file archive capacity, from a little over 10,000PB in 2008 to 62,000PB in 2012 This seems to one of the few bright … Continue reading

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Isilon

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

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Traveling

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

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A very good article

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

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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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