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Creating
a budget is hard work, but keeping to it can be harder. So to give you some
ideas on how to do that, here are some of the ways we helped our customers
stretch their storage budgets in 2017.Creating a budget is hard work, but keeping to
it can be harder. So to give you some ideas on how to do that, here are some of
the ways we helped our customers stretch their storage budgets in 2017
First, of course, was support for legacy
NetApp. We helped many of our NetApp customers with low-cost maintenance and
technical services for their 7-mode systems and helped others migrate to cDot. During 2017, we added new support customers in
our mining and exploration vertical market. These installations are often in
very remote locations (mines in Congo, Chile, Peru, etc.). This means providing
on-site spares kits, because of difficult logistics; further, it requires
increased telepresence support. To assist with this, we have developed several
diagnostic techniques to help our customers maintain their systems’ high
availability status even in these remote environments.
Second, we sold many off-lease transferable licensedNetApp systems to customers who loved the product but couldn’t afford New. The same goes for add-on NetApp storage
shelves for customers looking for affordable capacity upgrades. Our refurbished
NetApp hardware has shipped worldwide, saving customers money.
Finally, on the SimplStor side, our installed
base of SimplStor storage servers continues to expand, and we’ve seen a lot of
interest in our new Petabyte series (1.5PB in only 8U) for video and archive
environments and will soon deploy several large SimplStor EVS surveillance solutions--which include our storage, Dell switches, and Axis cameras and
software.
Our customers know that Zerowait’s staff is
available whenever they have a problem, and we have had many NetApp service and
support customers for over a decade. Zerowait’s philosophy is to provide our
customers with flexible service solutions and products that are easily adaptable
to their requirements, while helping them stretch their IT budgets
Today's storage customers require Scalability, Flexibility,
Reliability, and Affordability from their storage solutions. It takes a guide to find that perfect stretch
of water, and we work hard to guide our customers to the perfect storage
solution. Good Fishing!
If you are fishing for a new NetApp support provider or an alternative storage solution please give us a call, please feel
free to contact us with a time/date to
arrange a conference call with you and your team.
