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Today the Fed cut its rates as the Politicians in Washington react to the growing credit securitization problems. There are plenty of people pointing fingers at each other, but the reality is that folks need to look to themselves now … Continue reading →

Imagine what it is like to be a NetApp executive these days. IBM, one of your best business partners, has just purchased another company and seems to be readying to directly compete with you. Your company initiated a legal battle … Continue reading →

2008 is shaping up to be an unusual year. It has been many years since our economy has faced the problems caused by a credit crunch and uncertain monetary policy simultaneously. When combined, these issues may reveal some unintended consequences … Continue reading →

Over the last few years Zerowait has recommended that customers consider either redeploying their storage infrastructures or redriving their hard-drive carriers rather than just replacing them wholesale with new, larger drives and disk shelves. Our point of view was treated … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago a NetApp power user who was considering giving his NetApp infrastructure to the grim reaper called us with his problem. NetApp refused to sell the customer 72 GB drives which they needed to provide their Oracle … Continue reading →

Outrage is building in NetApp’s reseller channel as NetApp continues to redefine resellers’ best accounts in an effort to build their own representatives’ sales figures. NetApp acts towards resellers as if they are a missionary sales force working to generate … Continue reading →

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Loyalty is priceless and Is neither sold nor bought. Alas, how few who seem to know Its value as they ought.” Thornton W. Burgess Over many years in business (18), and many transactions (thousands), with many customers (hundreds), Zerowait has … Continue reading →

Imagine if you were a small company with a limited budget that had to build a big storage and archiving application to provide Storage As a Service (SAaS) . Being a small company without layers of hierarchy allows you to … Continue reading →

A few months ago I hosted a dinner party for about ten of our customers in Los Angeles. During the dinner our customers compared war stories of infrastructure problems they had encountered and discussed various strategies for negotiating with vendors … Continue reading →