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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 →

When customers pay a premium price for enterprise class storage systems they have a right to expect reliability and high availability for theirs storage dollars. Therefore, it is troubling to many data center managers when they see that Sun is … Continue reading →

Today starts the new quarter for Zerowait and we expect our family of customers to continue to expand. Our first quarter exceeded our growth expectations. Apparently more companies are instituting their austerity programs and IT budgets are tightening. Savvy customers … Continue reading →

I visited some customers in New Jersey last week. One customer asked me how I thought the economy would change the storage environment. I told him that overall people were not going to start suddenly to delete emails and Powerpoints … Continue reading →

Since NetApp came out with their new blue staple look, I have gotten a few requests from people asking how I came up with the Zerowait name and our logo. I had already named the company Zerowait, because I did … Continue reading →

Uncertainty in the economy is driving many companies to review their costs. Some are focusing on their high cost storage infrastructures, because when things go into recession many companies need to understand why their costs are so high, and where … Continue reading →

Recently there has been an uptick in our tuning business, many customers call us and ask our engineers to tune their filers to get better disk utilization, increase their storage capacity or tweak their filers to get more speed or … Continue reading →

First they shuffle the players in their executive suite, now they come out with a new Logo. I wonder when they will change their corporate philosophy? I certainly hope this re branding works better than the New Coke did. Quite … Continue reading →