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California trip I have been in California visiting some customers this week and a few of our customers are looking at or testing things with VMware and filers. Keeping virtual machine copies of your desktops and servers makes a lot … Continue reading →

License transferability Someone recently asked what they should write on their PO to get transferable licenses. Something like this should work: This Purchase order (agreement) includes the specific intent and the legal right to transfer software by purchaser to other … Continue reading →

Are you ever left wondering how to verify a vendor’s ROI claims? I saw this today on the register website –https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/09/netapp_cheapo_storage/NetApp guns for EMC and HPUndercuts rivalsBy Chris WilliamsPublished Tuesday 9th May 2006 10:30 GMT NetApp has extended its enterprise … Continue reading →

EMC seems to have NetApp’s customers in their sights The new Clariion products allow users to replace disk drives, power supplies, cooling fans and small form-factor pluggable optical transceivers on their own. A new Disk Replacement Utility wizard guides them … Continue reading →

NetApp releases new filer Upgrading to the new kit should also be straightforward, according to Hargreaves. “Customers can upgrade an existing system by replacing the controller,” he said. “The upgrade does not involve changes to the data.” Hargreaves also argued … Continue reading →

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 →