{"id":1002,"date":"2011-09-30T14:42:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2024-03-15T15:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T15:18:34","slug":"zerowait-turned-the-model-upside-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/30\/zerowait-turned-the-model-upside-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Zerowait turned  the model upside down."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two weeks I was traveling around the USA visiting customers in NV, TX, AZ, and\u00a0 CO.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a lot of fun to visit with customers and hear them tell me\u00a0 how Zerowait has made their storage management and maintenance tasks easier and more affordable.\u00a0 As regular readers know, Zerowait has specialized in the niche of<a title=\"ZEROWAIT FOR OUTSTANDING SUPPORT !\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerowait.com\/index.php\/netapp-sales-and-support\/netapp-support-zpa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> NetApp legacy support<\/a> for almost ten years\u00a0 and we have been working with <a title=\"Zerowait The affordable alternative\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerowait.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NetApp equipment since 1998.\u00a0 <\/a>Over the years we have built up a large and loyal customer base, and now our\u00a0 NetApp support customers are\u00a0 adding our <a title=\"SIMPLSTOR \" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerowait.com\/index.php\/simplstor\/simplstor-overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SimplStor <\/a>product line\u00a0 to their Storage infrastructure\u00a0 on an ever increasing basis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"Phoenx\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.accessiblevans.com\/images\/locations\/phoenix_az.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a> Last week I was meeting with a customer in the Phoenix, AZ area and he\u00a0 told me that their storage budget for 2012\u00a0 already includes Zerowait&#8217;s legacy support for their NetApp equipment and a <a title=\"TAPE IS DEAD!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerowait.com\/pdfs\/tape_is_dead.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SimplStor for tape replacement.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was in Denver, Colorado talking to a customer earlier this week\u00a0 and he said that &#8220;Zerowait has turned the storage model upside down.&#8221; We laughed about that comment and I asked him to explain why he said that. From our customer&#8217;s point of view Zerowait is a service company and the introduction of a hardware platform by a service company is unique. I doubt if it is unique, but it is unusual.<\/p>\n<p>SimplStor is the culmination\u00a0 of conversations with our customers who wanted a long term, reliable, storage solution that\u00a0 did not lock them into the<a title=\"Lock in cycle\" href=\"http:\/\/people.ischool.berkeley.edu\/~hal\/Papers\/mattioli\/mattioli.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> proprietary vendor&#8217;s upgrade cycle.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 By using high reliability proven commercially available components and best of breed open source software we created a storage platform that answers the needs of our international customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-SEG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1003\" title=\"Opening of 2011 SEG\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-SEG-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Before the rush at SEG\" width=\"180\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-SEG-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2011-SEG-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a>Whether I was talking to customers on an individual basis or in groups\u00a0 at the SEG show in San Antonio, our customers were enthusiastic about our company, services and products.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last two weeks I was traveling around the USA visiting customers in NV, TX, AZ, and\u00a0 CO.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a lot of fun to visit with customers and hear them tell me\u00a0 how Zerowait has made their storage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/30\/zerowait-turned-the-model-upside-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2826,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/2826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}