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MAY 31 & JUNE 1 – Join us in Tampa! Jon Toigo’s group is putting on a Disaster Recovery Conference and we will be there! Although we like to advocate Disaster Prevention techniques, rather then waiting for a problem to … Continue reading →

It has been a very busy couple of days. We have started to get in NetApp FAS960’s and a lot of people want to upgrade from their 800 series units to the FAS960’s, and have been waiting for our stock … Continue reading →

Morphic Resonance Last night I phoned Jon Toigo because of the search storage article and we chatted about it at length. This morning I read his blog. It seems that the press and the competition is now starting to ask … Continue reading →

NetApp – we used to be a contender It is eerie to watch the decline of NetApp. Here is company that spends hundreds a millions of dollars to purchase Spinnaker, Alacritus, Decru and yet does not spend money on listening … Continue reading →

I was in Charlotte NC yesterday visiting with a fast growing racing technology company that we provide service and support to for their NetApp filers. Even this fast growing, fast paced business needs help in controlling their NetApp costs for … Continue reading →

This week we sent out an announcement on our ZHA Exception reporter which is a tool for helping customers to manage and optimize their NetApp infrastructures. It is subscription based, and reads through the autosupport logs that our customers filers … Continue reading →

Disaster prevention Summit – May 31 and June 1 Jon Toigo’s group is putting on a Summit that should be very useful to the end users in the industry that read this blog. I am working on putting together a … Continue reading →

Why buy a new NetApp unit? Does Jabil Circuit build a better box for NetApp than NEC did? We get calls on a daily basis from customers who are looking at an outrageous price quote from NetApp for some new … Continue reading →

EXPECT DOUBLE DISK FAILURES WITH ATA DRIVES – Dave Hitz – NetApp Founder After reading Daves’ blog you have to wonder if NetApp keeps any of their critical accounting data or sales data on ATA drives. Dave goes on to … Continue reading →

Reliable, Repeatable and Verifiable “You don’t understand how we calculate price/performance,” NetApp says. Over the last few months it has become quite apparent that the performance numbers provided by NetApp are not in any way verifiable. Jon Toigo’s request for … Continue reading →