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An Article worth reading in Computerworld I have written about this issue many times before, but it seems that the Main Stream Tech Media is finally picking it up. Most savvy enterprise storage customers understand that to get a decent … Continue reading →

Real Integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did or not – Oprah Winfrey In the long run I think people figure out that certain companies have integrity and do the right thing … Continue reading →

Character is much easier kept, than recovered. – Thomas Paine Company reputations are gained and lost one customer at a time. Because our company deals with NetApp’s customers who have lost the faith, or can no longer afford the cost … Continue reading →

Getting together This weekend there was a fly in and chili feast at a local grass strip (MD1). A whole bunch of us flew in. As you can see there was a great variety of aircraft on the field. And … Continue reading →

” We simply can’t afford NetApp pricing and have moved in a different direction” This is what a former NetApp customer told me as they were trying to sell us their old NetApp system which they loved. And since his … Continue reading →

Customer comments On Monday, we had a customer call us up because they were having a NetApp problem in their New York City Data Center. They wanted us to take care of their problem for them because they are physically … Continue reading →

It is always interesting to see who hits the Zerowait websites and Blog. Lately NetApp ( nat-198.95.226.224..netapp.com ) has been stopping by a lot, and so has their attorneys Bowman and Brooke. (12.162.212.128) . The folks at Hitachi stop by … Continue reading →

Zerowait and many of our customers will be at the summit. At Zerowait we use load balancing and mirroring to protect ourselves from data loss. Although, we also use our Spectra Logic library for a weekly backup. You can’t be … Continue reading →

Finally — An answer of sorts from NetApp on the BCS & ZCS issue These answers below give a great perspective on the switch back to 512 sectors, from 520 sectors. And it is worth reading all the way through. … Continue reading →

The ZCS(512) & BCS(520) Saga continues Jon Toigo asked me to respond to a post on his blog . Hi Jon: I find PQ65’s comments very interesting, but I don’t understand the reasoning behind his comments. If BCS (520) is … Continue reading →