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Dave Hitz of NetApp has a new blog! I wrote the following note on Friday to Dave welcoming him to the Blogosphere. TO : daveblog@netapp.com Hi Dave: Welcome to the blog world, your input and thoughts are going to be … Continue reading →

“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.” — Henry Ford Zerowait is building our reputation one satisfied customer at a time. Mike Linett A lot of Zerowait’s customers have been to our offices in Newark,DE … Continue reading →

“Your theory is crazy, but it’s not crazy enough to be true.” — Niels Bohr Landing a plane on a pick up truck might seem like a crazy idea. It certainly takes an enormous amount of skill and confidence for … Continue reading →

“Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.” — Alexander Hamilton The view from the cockpit of a twin engine airplane … Continue reading →

Boulder Dam or Hoover Dam? Its the same dam thing. Does it make a difference if you buy the NetApp version of the FAS270 filer or the IBM 3700 version? Same box, same software, same service and support. The only … Continue reading →

Stratregic Leadership in the storage industry. Today our engineers are doing an installation at a Data Center near New York City. The area between Washington DC and Boston represents about 25% of our NetApp service and support business. As the … Continue reading →

“When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.” — Armand Hammer Today our engineers are doing an installation of a transferable licensed F840 with a couple of TB of disks at a client of … Continue reading →

“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.” — Kurt Vonnegut Yesterday, I was visiting a large government customer in Washington DC., their NetApp … Continue reading →

“Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.” — George Orwell Our typical customer is looking for … Continue reading →

  “Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws.” — Douglas Adams When is the last time you heard a manager complain that everything is working … Continue reading →