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The Transportation Security Administration is missing secure data.The U.S. agency responsible for securing the nation’s airports says it can’t find an external hard drive packed with the personal records of about 100,000 current and former employees. Authorities at the Transportation … Continue reading →

Institutional Shareholder Services had some pretty strong words about Apple recently. Read what they said about Apple A resounding no-confidence vote “The Apple board’s handling of the entire options imbroglio does not inspire investor confidence. The window into current and … Continue reading →

Secrets & Privacy are all things of the past. Digg is publishing software keys. Google is cataloging our private lives, and the banks are losing our private data. The articles below point to the problems with protecting your data, and … Continue reading →

Sun is getting ready to fight NetApp. Watching the development of ZFS for the last few months this announcement was inevitable. Sun to fry NetApp with FISHSmells like NAS, dudeBy Ashlee Vance in Mountain View Sun Microsystems has a near-term … Continue reading →

“Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.” — Benjamin Franklin Over the last few weeks we have experienced a substantial increase in NetApp … Continue reading →

No Hassles. Rest easy. Call Zerowait! Last week I was at the ASCDI conference in Las Vegas and got a chance to hear how terrible it is to be a reseller of Sun Equipment. It seems that a majority of … Continue reading →

Great Companies combine Innovation with Customer Focus. I was having a conversation with a buddy of mine last night and we were comparing the NetApp of the mid to late 90’s to the NetApp of today. In the old days, … Continue reading →

Our technology and processes provide our customers with a competitive advantage! In order to provide our customers with better service than the OEM does we had to develop faster and better systems for service and support. At first these systems … Continue reading →

“first do no harm” – from the Hippocratic oath ( well, sort of). Don’t you wish that Enterprise storage vendors felt that way? It seems that many companies believe that storage vendors don’t care about the damage they cause their … Continue reading →

The tighter your grip, the fewer seeds of grain you can hold in your hand. Yesterday I was in NYC visiting with clients that were furious at NetApp’s escalating costs of maintenance, and also the pace of change on ESH’s … Continue reading →