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Since IBM started reselling NetApp products a few years ago savvy customers have been playing the two companies sales organizations against each other. Now it seems analysts are noticing this is causing some consternation in the competitive channel organizations. This … Continue reading →

To say that many enterprise IT departments are cutting back on their IT expenditures would not be surprising to many of our customers. But it is interesting to notice that the Wall Street Journal has written an article on the … Continue reading →

An interesting note in today’s Byte and Switch caught my attention. Pacific Growth Equities analyst Kaushik Roy discussed a possible Fujitsu/Exanet deal in a report on NetApp last week: “We are concerned that NetApp’s second largest OEM customer Fujitsu Siemens … Continue reading →

What does virtualization mean anyway? “[Virtualization is] a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, applications, or end users interact with those resources. This includes making a single physical resource (such … Continue reading →

This morning one of our customers in Texas called me to tell me to thank our engineering staff for helping them solve a thorny issue with one of their clusters. Our staff worked on Friday, and over the weekend they … Continue reading →

New York State seems to be trying to drive more business away according to this Editorial in today’s Wall Street Journal. Return of the Web TaxWall Street Journal May 1, 2008; Page A16 New York Governor David Paterson is not … Continue reading →

If analysts could accurately predict the future there would be no risk in investing upon their advice. Therefore, I have to wonder if analysts are predicting the future in their writings, or if they are not. If they accurately predict … Continue reading →

Intel has slashed the prices of their processors, the question at hand is how will this affect new NetApp equipment. The current models of the FAS3000 series and FAS6000 series are using AMD processors, will NetApp switch to Intel now? … Continue reading →

Over the last week I have visited clients in Western PA and also spoke with quite a few on the phone about the costs of maintaining their storage infrastructure and the options for making their current storage last a lot … Continue reading →

Over the last week I have been traveling throughout the Southeast visiting customers and going to a meeting with the ASCDI in Key West. During the ASCDI convention there was a presentation by Michael Sacharski of Pacific Enterprise Capital which … Continue reading →