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They don’t call it Silly Con Valley for nothing… A certain Vendor in Silicon Valley – (Campbell , CA ) announces a VAR conference and they tell resellers that they will pay for hotel and airfare if we come. I … Continue reading →

Disruptive business model from Google coming soon. Google is now offering bulk storage services, that may be a lot cheaper than buying your hardware and managing it yourselves. Google can probably buy drives at deeper discounts than the largest array … Continue reading →

NetApp invests in Qlusters. I thought this is an interesting development because NetApp, HP, and IBM are all partners of this company that former Dell CEO Kevin Rollins is running. See here “Qlusters, the Linux-based clustering operating systems start-up, has … Continue reading →

Brocade’s former CEO is going to jail, he focused on personal short term profits, and not long term company value. And he is going to pay the price for it. I put together some random thoughts on this issue below. … Continue reading →

Why independent monitoring & review is so important. Over the last few weeks a couple of very large companies have embraced our ZHA Exception Reporter monitoring tool. There are a few reasons for this but the primary reason is that … Continue reading →

Customers are our best sales people Last month I was visiting with a customer in California, and he told me how much of a pleasure it is to work with Zerowait. We were having dinner at a very nice restaurant, … Continue reading →

Now one Appliance can Toast, Griddle and make your Coffee! Buy one today! Last month I was visiting with a customer who has a considerable investment in his NetApp storage infrastructure. Management of his storage is becoming cumbersome because it has … Continue reading →

“To err is human. To blame it on somebody else is even more human.” Arthur Bloch Yesterday one of my readers suggested I read the Blog of Dave Hitz. Dave is a founder of NetApp and has made a lot … Continue reading →

It looks like the folks at Sun are going to get serious about going after NetApp’s NAS position in the market. Over the last year it seems to me that NetApp is focusing on SAN installations more, which may create … Continue reading →

Jeff Browning explains NetApp Snapshots and the trade off’s in this blog entry very well. It is worth reading the whole blog, his explanations are better than anything I could write. Here are some short excerpts…“NetApp’s snapshots actually occurred as … Continue reading →