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“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” Groucho Marx https://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=85225Relentless IT security threats generated from viruses and worms, and legislation such as Sarbanes-Oxley, GLBA, HIPAA and PCI require … Continue reading →

Mike I’m going to take up your generous offer today. I realize that much of your audience may be NetApp customers, however they could benefit from the two resources that I’d like to share below. We’re offering this to bloggers … Continue reading →

But the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it…. Malcolm Forbes Success – Now watch as your market share declines! In the late 1990’s NetApp’s NAS technology was an education sale. Zerowait’s employees worked very hard to teach our customers … Continue reading →

A small problem at a vendor, can cause a big headache for NAS and SAN customers. When a critical part of your data infrastructure is broken and your customers are unable to get their crucial data, your business can suffer … Continue reading →

Highly Valued storage on a commodity storage platform? The other day I saw an email on The Toasters mailing list of NetApp users regarding the certification by Oracle of StoreVault – the new SMB aimed product by NetApp. I have … Continue reading →

Compliments for our Complementary support I just got off the phone with a customer who was telling me that our service and support was fantastic and he can’t understand why NetApp doesn’t see our legacy support as a complementary service … Continue reading →

The other day, one of our engineers and I flew into CYTZ – Toronto Island Airport to visit with some of our customers in Toronto. I told our engineer that landing at Toronto Island provides some great opportunities for some … Continue reading →

Ken Lay’s Golden Egg Over the last few years we have heard a lot of complaining about Ken Lay in the media. But the Computer Storage business should try to make him into a Saint. Before the collapse of Enron … Continue reading →

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NetApp Storevault Lately it seems like everyone wants my comments on Storevault by NetApp. All I know about the product is what I have read in articles on the Internet and heard from other folks. About a month ago we … Continue reading →