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  Safely Purchasing Second-Hand Storage Gear A few customers of ours called us or sent us links over over the last few days to point out this article which features Zerowait. I like the article a lot! The article goes … Continue reading →

Transferable licenses Over the holiday weekend we received several emails requesting quotes on our systems with transferable licenses. When sending us a request please try to include the shelf type you want and the LRC or ESH combination for the … Continue reading →

Is this a verifiable claim? NetApp also claims that its RAID-DP technology is “4,000 times more reliable” compared to conventional RAID-1 systems, in terms of safeguarding disks against failure. How did NetApp come up with this figure? The News reporter … Continue reading →

Transferable Licenses This subject comes up almost daily. NetApp provides transferable licensing. Zerowait stocks systems with transferable NFS,CIFS,Cluster and Snap mirror. If a NetApp Salesman tells you that there is no such thing as a transferable license Call Zerowait. 888.811.0808 … Continue reading →

Dave Hitz discounts from NetApp. Dave Hitz, cofounder and head of engineering at NetApp. “We have a single software system, and we can cut our prices to gain market share,” he says. Tuesday was an interesting day. It seems that … Continue reading →

“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin Over a week in the office I probably speak to an average of 20 different customers. And every week our engineers probably speak to the same number of customers. I … Continue reading →

Last week a customer called us up in a panic. They needed 28 DS 14 36GB drives in a hurry and wanted to know if we had them. We checked our inventory found we had plenty in stock and said … Continue reading →

Disaster Recovery or Disaster Prevention There was a great article in search storage on the ten reasons DR plans fail recently, I suggest that you read it if you are concerned about your business continuity after a data loss event. … Continue reading →

Email Compliance Conversation I received a call from a customer who was worried about regulatory compliance for his email. He had looked into a solution and was suffering sticker shock from the price quote he received. I asked him how … Continue reading →

On Sunday, I had lunch with Zerowait’s first customer. We still do work for them and we had to get together to discuss a project we are working on for them. We have been working with this customer for 16 … Continue reading →