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Data Migrations Earlier this week, one of my engineers and I went to see a customer in Virginia that is getting ready to migrate their NetApp data to new data center. They wanted to know what our recommendations were and … Continue reading →

End of year sales at NetApp. We have been getting calls from lots of folks saying that their NetApp sales folks are getting particularly aggressive lately. You can thank the end of year for that and add in that most … Continue reading →

The Future of Storage: This week’s economist has a fascinating article on the future of Disk Storage. If the article is correct enterprise companies who are considering their strategic storage initiatives should look at a 4 -5 year life for … Continue reading →

Is remote hosted storage ready for your tier one storage requirements? Amazon seems to think so.“This is intended to be very flexible to support any application a developer might build,” says Adam Selipsky, Amazon’s vice president of product management, adding … Continue reading →

Website hits It is really amazing where our hits come from on our Websites www.zerowait.com and www.thezerowaitstore.com . About 50% of our hits come from the USA and usually between 5% and 10% are from the San Francisco bay area, … Continue reading →

How many technology companies have been able to manage four big projects at once successfully? Currently it looks like NetApp is trying to manage two operating systems, a sales distribution relationship with IBM, the integration of the Decru security business … Continue reading →

How is the NetApp & IBM deal working out? According to Steve Duplessie – Everything is going to be just fine. But looking at the wonderful relationship that NetApp had with Dell’s rebranding of the F700 series and the lovefest … Continue reading →

Going to Boston Next week I have to travel to Boston to meet with several customers about their NetApp hardware support. I always like going to Boston, because our customers in the area are all so close together that I … Continue reading →

Can NetApp and Kazeon Verify their claims? “Our collaboration with NetApp offers the ultimate solution for enterprises looking to gain complete visibility and instant recovery of online backup data,” said Michael Marchi, VP of Solution Marketing at Kazeon. “By quickly … Continue reading →

More Bad Press for NetApp “It was a dead product once NetApp got hold of it, and we knew that,” he said. But he was unprepared for NetApp’s lack of support for the product, which was still under maintenance and … Continue reading →