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The Small Business perspective and a Goliath’s Last night I was reading the Wall Street Journal of June 6th 2006, and on page B5 there is an article by Gwendolyn Bounds about how an independent radio station in Philadelphia maintains … Continue reading →

Strategic and tactical thinking about your storage infrastructure. When you consider your enterprise storage strategic plan do you consider a ROI of three years, or five years? What does your vendor consider the term of their strategic alliance to be? … Continue reading →

NetApp & IBM agreements We get a lot of calls from customers who are trying to figure out how to get the best deal on NetApp equipment and we advise them to shop around. The agreement between NetApp and IBM … Continue reading →

During last week’s Disaster recovery Summit in Tampa I was surprised to see so few storage vendors and storage resellers. I would have expected to see a whole bunch of Storage resellers at the conference, since recovering data is such … Continue reading →

The 2006 Disaster recovery Summit is history now and it was the best conference I have ever attended. And here is why:1) Attendees were really interested in the topics.2) End user experiences were clear,enlightening and well presented.3) Vendors were not … Continue reading →

Disaster recovery or disaster prevention? This week there is a conference in Tampa about preventing a catastrophic loss of data. Although the conference’s focus is based on FEMA types of events, every enterprise needs to be aware of the costs … Continue reading →

“Extraordinary Claims require extraordinary proof” Carl Sagan When it comes to reliability and uptime there is no doubt that NetApp has some of the most remarkably stable storage equipment in the marketplace. It is not unusual to have customers that … Continue reading →

Has NetApp peaked ? Server storage company Network Appliance Inc. announced Wednesday that its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter net income dropped 6.6 percent. Our company has seen a surge in our support business over the last year and as many … Continue reading →

He should have called Zerowait for his NetApp support! NetApp’s midrange storage quality up for debateBy Beth Pariseau, News Writer22 May 2006 | SearchStorage.com It may have been a blow to Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) that its traditional sweet spot, … Continue reading →

We are made wise not by recollection of the past, but by the responsibility for our future – George Bernard Shaw When choosing an enterprise storage device many organizations make their decisions based on what their sales person says and … Continue reading →