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Chuck Hollis of EMC on NetApp marketing techniques. Click here or read below. NetApp: Bad Marketing vs. Good Marketing All is fair in love, war and marketing. Or is it? Do we, as vendors, have a responsibility to our customers … Continue reading →

What percentage of your corporate storage is Spam? The volume of spam rocketed in December to account for a record 94% of all Internet-sent e-mail during the month, a message security company said Wednesday. “This continued rise in spam levels … Continue reading →

Why does NetApp charge so much for their equipment? I get asked this all the time, and the answer is based on many factors but mostly it is because the market perceives a NetApp label to be worth more than … Continue reading →

Hitachi announces the arrival of 1TB drives. A 1TB hard drive for $399 is likely to be an instant hit among early adopters and video pros. That price translates to about 40 cents per gigabyte, or 0.04 cents per megabyte. … Continue reading →

Has California Seceded from the United States and joined the European Union? RoHS Regulations Adopted and DVD Players with LCD’s Covered On December 29, 2006 the California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) approved California regulations implementing RoHS, and adding DVD … Continue reading →

Security, Storage, and Delaware’s Senator Carper Earlier this year Senator Carper was the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs. Perhaps he now will become the committee chairman. Senator Carper has been focusing on Data … Continue reading →

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. – Gandhi 1) It was only a few years ago that people were telling us that it was impossible to develop a third party … Continue reading →

The more things change the more they stay the same Recently while at the SNW show in Orlando, I heard that NetApp was switching its shelf supplier from Xyratex to Dot Hill. When NetApp shifted its purchasing from Eurologic to … Continue reading →

Silicon Valley where Politics and Venture Capital Mix It is always interesting to see who is contributing to Congressional representatives and see if it influences their votes. Silicon Valley’s representive seems to be a favorite of the Venture Capital firms. … Continue reading →

How long do you want your data archive to be readable? One of our friends just told us that NetApp will not allow their R100’s to run anything above Version 7.1 of Ontap. Is this true? Can NetApp’s Nearstore line … Continue reading →