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According to a press release this morning storage budgets are expected to decrease in 2009. It will be interesting to see what happens with acquisitions and maintenance budgets in 2009. Fortune 1000 Enterprise Organizations to See 14% Decrease in 2009 … Continue reading →

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on the forecast for the chip business next year, and it is pretty grim. Many semiconductor makers were suffering from plummeting prices and excess production capacity even before the recession’s impact began … Continue reading →

NetApp to close Haifa development center Shmulik Shelah9 Dec 08 14:39Network storage solutions provider NetApp Inc. (Nasdaq: NTAP) is set to close its Israeli development center in Haifa, which has 60 employees. The center is based on start-up Topio, which … Continue reading →

Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting article on how Sunoco’s CIO is trying to stretch his budget dollars. I have cut and pasted some parts of the article here. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: How is the economy affecting the … Continue reading →

Providing high quality service and support for NetApp equipment is a hard business. Even the folks at NetApp admit that it is hard. “There was nothing about this part of our business that was working,” says Rusty Walther, senior vice … Continue reading →

Today is a great time of the year to say thank you to all of Zerowait’s customers and friends. It is also a good time to look back and recognize how lucky I was personally to grow up in Delaware … Continue reading →

I am in Canada for a few days of visiting customers here. Just like so many of our customers, the Canadians know that NetApp makes great products, they call Zerowait because they need an affordable way to expand and maintain … Continue reading →

According to the Wall Street Journal, Sun Microsystems is planning a 15% cut in its workforce. Perhaps one of the major problems for Sun is that its sales force and margins are based on selling proprietary hardware. And like most … Continue reading →

One of my friends sent me this patent to see if it was something that our company would be interested in. After reading the abstract and summary it reinforced my belief that there are several applications in the world where … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal today has a short article on the Sun ZFS solution. We have some customers who have switched to the Sun Thumper solution and for their smaller storage applications they seem to like it. Other customers are … Continue reading →