{"id":941,"date":"2011-07-24T11:21:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=941"},"modified":"2011-07-24T11:21:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T15:21:17","slug":"a-week-in-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/24\/a-week-in-illinois\/","title":{"rendered":"A week in Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Monroe-Statue.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-942\" title=\"Monroe Statue in Chicago\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Monroe-Statue-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Monroe-Statue-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Monroe-Statue-765x1024.jpg 765w, https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Monroe-Statue.jpg 1936w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a>I was in Illinois last week visiting with several of our customers and while in Chicago I was parked next to the new Marilyn Monroe Statue.\u00a0\u00a0 There certainly were a lot of admirers of the statue.<\/p>\n<p>We do a lot of NetApp support business in and around Chicago,\u00a0 and I got to\u00a0 visit with a lot of customers in just a few days.\u00a0 Many of our customers are looking for <a title=\"Zerowait  is the answer!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerowait.com\/index.php\/netapp-sales-and-support\/netapp-support-zpa\" target=\"_blank\">alternatives to NetApp <\/a>because they don&#8217;t have the budgets\u00a0\u00a0 anymore to afford the upgrade path that NetApp&#8217;s sales folks are suggesting to them.<\/p>\n<p>With budgets tight, many customers don&#8217;t want to upgrade to NetApp&#8217;s 64 bit storage solutions but want to maintain their 32 bit storage.\u00a0 Their storage equipment is highly reliable and with Zerowait&#8217;s support it remains much more affordable to maintain their legacy NetApp systems than to upgrade and replace them.<\/p>\n<p>I also had several good meetings with customers about our <a title=\"SimplStor - The affordable alternative to tape\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zerowait.com\/index.php\/simplstor\" target=\"_blank\">SimplStor storage products.<\/a> I heard the same type of issues that I heard in Boston a couple of weeks ago about the costs of keeping LTO tape libraries running. Several of the customers I talked to like our SimplStor solutions and think it is the right answer for the times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Illinois last week visiting with several of our customers and while in Chicago I was parked next to the new Marilyn Monroe Statue.\u00a0\u00a0 There certainly were a lot of admirers of the statue. We do a lot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/24\/a-week-in-illinois\/\">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\/941"}],"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=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}