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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” — Andrew Carnegie Over the last few months we have watched as the titans of the storage industry have started to purchase … Continue reading →

I didn’t really say everything I said.” — Yogi Berra If Data Security is so important to data storage companies why are all their cabinets keyed alike? — Mike Linett 03/2005 Hitz: We’re small enough that we can double our … Continue reading →

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.” Ronald Reagan 7/11/05 DHS information security plans lacking, GAO says The Homeland Security Department has yet to … Continue reading →

Is NetApp charting a new course? If so, why? “The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.” — Mark Twain 03/03/2005 Hitz – we can double our … Continue reading →

‘Available Storage should be treated like Inventory. Either you have it, or you don’t.’ Mike Linett (2005) Pursuant to Jon Toigo’s request that I clarify my statements on managing storage, I wrote him the following: “Unused storage should be managed … Continue reading →

Jon Toigo (2005)” I also think it would be great if someone could find a way to relate actual active storage growth to real inactive storage growth. “Mike Linett (2005)We are working on it Jon!Jon Toigo posted this nice article … Continue reading →

Theodore Roosevelt “We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when anyone engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal.” Mike Linett … Continue reading →

Benjamin Franklin “Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.” Mike Linett (2005) “Zerowait can help keep your ship afloat!” Last week a large midwestern company called us up, because their NetApp hardware support was getting … Continue reading →

Stop, Don’t do it ! Don’t give up! Zerowait provides affordable NetApp hardware supportA new customer called us up yesterday, he was very upset by the NetApp support quote he had received. He was wondering if it made any sense … Continue reading →

Purchasing storage shouldn’t require poker skills. As many regular readers know we have been helping a NetApp customer negotiate his way through the NetApp Software support poker game. NetApp initially quoted him over $74,000.00 for his software support and the … Continue reading →