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“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” George Orwell .If you think your data is important and a corporate asset, defending your network is as important as the security of your storage. However the … Continue reading →

Recognizing Vendor Lock in and how to avoid it. Whether you supply information technology, or merely use it, you will benefit from understanding, classifying and measuring switching costs. The “friction-free” economy is a fiction; look for more lock-in, not less, … Continue reading →

Data Points that may mean something: 1) One of our NetApp support customers wrote me this week that he can get a FAS3020 head with 3 years support from NetApp for $30,000.00 with ISCSI and NFS licenses. I found that … Continue reading →

Holographic storage is it the future of storage? The Economist has an article on it this week that is worth reading. Computing: After years of development, holographic data-storage systems are finally ready to go on sale Gillian Blease THE digital … Continue reading →

NetApp’s Warmenhoven is taking an interest in a former customer who has chosen an HP EVA solution, here is the email exchange from Toasters the mailing list for NetApp filer users. From: Warmenhoven, Dan (Dan.Warmenhoven@netapp.com)Date: Tue Jun 12 2007 – … Continue reading →

How long can IBM stay in a low profit business sector? . NetApp is very proud of its reseller relationship with IBM. And many of our customers have been able to get better deals by getting quotes on identical equipment … Continue reading →

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. George Bernard Shaw…. I was surprised to see that VarBusiness has learned to read NetApp’s history of treatment of the channel and are willing to discuss it in an article. … Continue reading →

If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you are doing. – W. Edwards Deming . In my college years working on my business degree I studied production and inventory control methods. A … Continue reading →

Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer. Sun-Tzu I saw a headline today that made me think that NetApp is really starting to fear the second level storage companies who have a lower cost solution for reliable high availability … Continue reading →

If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck NetApp has recently put on a push to engage the channel to help it ramp up NetApp’s anemic sales numbers. In the past, NetApp has used the … Continue reading →