{"id":230,"date":"2006-01-30T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-30T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2006-01-30T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-30T09:39:00","slug":"230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/30\/230\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> &#8220;All vendor demos are boring. It&#8217;s the law, I think &#8220;<\/span> Scott Adams<\/p>\n<p>That certainly is the truth, some of the powerpoint presentations I have listened too were worse then getting my wisdom teeth out. Why is it that sales and marketing folks take so long to tell  you about their Gartner magic quadrant reports and their value propositions?<\/p>\n<p> Why can&#8217;t they just provide easily verifiable features, benefits, costs and  life cycle figures for their  equipment, software or support?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> At Zerowait we know that you are busy,  so here is our marketing pitch:<\/span><br \/>At Zerowait we provide  affordable service, support and upgrades for NetApp equipment. We provide our customers with hardware support contracts varying in length between 1 and 3 years. Our  hardware support costs are typically between 50% and 60%  of the  OEM&#8217;s cost for support.<\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Here is our sales pitch:<\/span><br \/>  We are recognized as the leader in third party service and support, if you send us your filer&#8217;s weekly logs  we  can provide you a service and support  quote for your NetApp equipment. Additionally,  we can provide you with a sample of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zpiphany.com\/\">Exception Reporter<\/a> service which will may help you increase  the performance and storage utilization.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> That was easy!<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-113858177150277196?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;All vendor demos are boring. It&#8217;s the law, I think &#8220; Scott Adams That certainly is the truth, some of the powerpoint presentations I have listened too were worse then getting my wisdom teeth out. Why is it that sales &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2006\/01\/30\/230\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}