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Economics explained through cows. My cousin Clive ,who lives in England, sent me a joke which I thought applied to the storage business perfectly. I only added one section at the end . I hope you enjoy it. SOCIALISM: You … Continue reading →

A purchase that makes sense. Typcially – the news from Silly Con Valley storage companies makes little sense but this one seems to have some logic behind it. If HDS pulls it off, I think in a few years NetApp … Continue reading →

Will Sun and ZFS take over the enterprise?Robin Harris at Storagemojo.com has been writing about these efforts for a couple of months now, and I have to give him credit for highlighting what is going on. Enterprise Storage will commoditize, … Continue reading →

No change in circumstances can repair a defect in character – Ralph Waldo Emerson Since opening our European operations we have seen a large increase in our requests for quote for our service and support of legacy NetApp equipment. There … Continue reading →

“If you can’t accept losing, you can’t win” Vince Lombardi Every quote we make does not turn into an order, and there are a variety of reasons for this. For a customer with legacy NetApp equipment that is looking to … Continue reading →

All the customers I spoke with on my trip across the country told me essentially the same thing. They love our NetApp service and support. While on my cross country trip our staff in our new European office was very … Continue reading →

Air Race Report Flew from San Jose into Reno on Friday. Ran into rime ice at 11000 feet and had to climb to 13000 to get out of the ice. Flew to the Mustang VOR and onto Runway 16L at … Continue reading →

Flew into San Jose yesterday. Perfect flight and landed on runway 29 and taxied over to San Jose Jet Center. Really great folks! Rented a car and started answering my phone as the calls were non stop. A bunch of … Continue reading →

Physical layer problems and solutions It turned out the electrical problems were caused by a loose wire on the main bus bar. I think that is layer 1 in the OSI model. But I got the plane fixed and by … Continue reading →

Problem solving On Friday I started my cross country trip from Delaware to California and then Reno for the Air races. On Friday night I flew IFR to NC21 and stayed with some old friends of mine. A perfectly delightful … Continue reading →