{"id":651,"date":"2009-06-12T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=651"},"modified":"2009-06-12T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T15:10:00","slug":"a-very-good-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/12\/a-very-good-article\/","title":{"rendered":"A very good article"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often the trade press is filled with regurgitated press releases which don&#8217;t give  a very good analysis of the companies and strategies that are winning customers and markets.  But I just read a very good article that I would suggest you <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/06\/02\/why-both-emc-netapp-want-data-domain\/\">read<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">NetApp has been losing both mind and market share to the more aggressive EMC, which has partnered with Cisco. With Oracle having acquired Sun (and with it, Sun\u2019s storage business) and HP expected to start building its own storage systems, there are few takers for NetApp. As a result, the company\u2019s only option was to start buying up smaller but fast-growing players such as Data Domain.<\/span>  <span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">For the longest time the knock on NetApp was that it wasn\u2019t able to buy and digest companies, as best evidenced by its struggles with its Decru and Spinnaker acquisitions. Now it\u2019s being straight-up outbid by EMC, which is offering cash. EMC, sensing blood, wants to run NetApp out of town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our business is growing in the tough economy because individuals and the market are recognizing that there is value in maintaining their reliable  legacy equipment.  The battle for Data Domain may be a harbinger of things to come. But my crystal ball on this subject remains cloudy.<\/p>\n<p>But as budgets remain tight, I expect more companies to ask for lower cost service and support for their enterprise storage systems.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-2889134680667073812?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often the trade press is filled with regurgitated press releases which don&#8217;t give a very good analysis of the companies and strategies that are winning customers and markets. But I just read a very good article that I would suggest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/12\/a-very-good-article\/\">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\/651"}],"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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}