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Traveling

Last week I went to see some of our extended family of customers in the southeast. I visited customers in Charlotte, NC; Atlanta, GA; and St.Petersburg, FL. It is always great to get out of the office and meet with … Continue reading

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Another possibility for High Performance Storage

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are looking at an alternative to silicon SSD’s . It could create an interesting new niche market for high performance storage. “New Nanowire-Based Memory Could Beef Up Information Storageby Laura Mgrdichian, Nanotechnology / PhysicsA … Continue reading

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Crossing the Petabyte line

I remember in 1998 and 1999 when we were selling new NetApp F740’s and F760’s and it was a big deal to sell a system that went to 1 TB. It was not that long ago. This week we are … Continue reading

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Is the media talking about the same person

Last night I was reading an article in the Economist that was praising the CEO of VMware, Diane Green. I thought it was a particularly interesting article, This morning I read an article by Adam Lashinsky which had a distinctly … Continue reading

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Why upgrade, when 90% of data is untouched?

According to a study partly done by the good folks at NetApp, “most data in enterprise networks rarely gets accessed” If this is the case , why should a customer put these rarely accessed files on the newest storage array? … Continue reading

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NetApp Selling through CDW

Rumors have been circling for some time about an expansion of the NetApp / CDW partnership. And from what I am hearing it is now official and NetApp is unveiling a big marketing push to support CDW as a primary … Continue reading

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Financial lay-offs could be worst since tech bust

Zerowait has seen a major uptick in our business since the financial problems began for the banks. Many CTO’s and CFO’s recognize that although they are locked into NetApp’s proprietary solutions, they can extend the lifespan of their NetApp Equipment … Continue reading

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FreeBSD in NetApp

According to a Press release today FreeBSD is “providing key components ” of NetApp filers. FreeBSD technology can be found throughout the IT industry, providing key components of Apple’s OS X, network infrastructure from Juniper, Nokia, IronPort and other vendors, … Continue reading

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The politics of Enterprise Storage

Yesterday, I was talking to a friend of mine about which way he thought the big shots in Enterprise Storage companies would contribute to political campaigns. It is no wonder that billion dollar storage companies employees are willing to back … Continue reading

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Sometimes the competition calls us

A competitor called me up the other day and said some really nice things about our company and the loyalty of our customers. He wanted to know how we do it. I told him it was not easy. Looking back … Continue reading

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