{"id":594,"date":"2008-09-26T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=594"},"modified":"2008-09-26T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T13:45:00","slug":"another-netapp-eol-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/26\/another-netapp-eol-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Another NetApp EOL announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NetApp seems to be getting ready to try to force some more customers to upgrade when they don&#8217;t have to. In tough economic times many companies are trying to extend the life of their storage and infrastructure assets, but that does not fit in with NetApp&#8217;s game plan. They sell boxes, and they need to sell more, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelregister.co.uk\/2008\/09\/26\/netapp_pam_to_get_ssd\/\">upgrades are being sold<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">&#8221; The 3020, a smaller and older array than the 3140, will be end-of-lifed soon though, reducing the number of models in the FAS range by one and, we could read it this way, creating a space in the range for a new mid-range model.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zerowait understands that many customers are having a hard time currently, and we are working with them to try to keep their  storage running at a cost they can afford.  NetApp takes a different view of customers that are having trouble because of the financial<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/magazine\/content\/08_39\/b4101044083232.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index+-+temp_news+%2B+analysis\"> shakeout.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">Daniel J. Warmenhoven, CEO of data storage company NetApp (<\/span><a style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\" href=\"http:\/\/investing.businessweek.com\/research\/stocks\/snapshot\/snapshot.asp?symbol=NTAP\">NTAP<\/a><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">) (formerly Network Appliance), counts himself lucky that neither Lehman nor AIG was a big customer (though Lehman did take the company public). He says tech spending is holding up so far\u2014in part because it lowers operating costs. &#8220;The analysts are always &#8216;woe is me,&#8217; because their industry is getting hammered,&#8221; says Warmenhoven. &#8220;Well, go cry in your own beer. Don&#8217;t ruin mine.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We look forward to helping the folks at AIG and Lehman, or the companies that acquire their storage assets, and we know that we can  support their NetApp infrastructures at a cost they can afford for many years to come.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-5802115319883590170?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetApp seems to be getting ready to try to force some more customers to upgrade when they don&#8217;t have to. In tough economic times many companies are trying to extend the life of their storage and infrastructure assets, but that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2008\/09\/26\/another-netapp-eol-announcement\/\">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\/594"}],"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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}