Seen that? - NetApp supply chain woes frustrate users

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NetApp supply chain woes frustrate users at On Storage

NetApp supply chain woes frustrate users: [A] wall street analyst, who preferred not to be named, said he'd heard that one customer was so tired of waiting for systems from NetApp that the company switched to EMC Corp. A shortage of the larger SATA drives for the FAS3000 range of systems has kept NetApp customers waiting for delivery for up to 5 weeks, while customers were waiting as long as 8 weeks [...] Read More


Netapp Largest Storage Vendor? at On Storage

Network Appliance, Inc. - DaveBlog : : : : :: Last quarter was a great milestone for NetApp. We just passed EMC in terabytes shipped, to become the largest networked storage vendor. (I define networked storage as SAN, NAS and iSCSI for everything except mainframes.) It's interesting to watch these numbers, and see who's on the up and who's slumping by comparison.... even if all the numbers are inherently biased by [...] Read More


NetApp SpinServer user walks away at On Storage

NetApp SpinServer user walks away: Ouch - painful, yet not-uncommon story. This guy buys a huge array from a startup - startup gets bought by vendor - guy has problems with array - vendor doesn't want to know - guy vows never to buy from the vendor again. Worse, he tells the world about it. Campbell was so soured by his experience that he's reluctant to look at anything from NetApp, including the upcoming [...] Read More


NetApp supply chain woes frustrate users at Supplychainer

Supply chain issues during December left many Network Appliance Inc. (NetApp) users waiting up to eight weeks for systems, according to Wall Street analyst reports. It's unclear at this stage whether NetApp has fixed the problems or not. A shortage of high-capacity SATA drives for the NetApp FAS 3000 midrange systems kept users waiting four to five weeks, while lead times for the Nearstore R200 were as long as eight [...] Read More


General Motors woes seen causing supply chain cull at Supplychainer

According to Reuters, Struggling carmaker General Motors is putting fresh pressure on its vast network of suppliers, which was trimmed by 500 firms in 2005, prompting fears of further U.S., European auto supplier bankruptcies. The price squeeze could benefit East Asian firms as the world's biggest carmaker said one way its suppliers of auto parts could cut costs was to source from low-cost countries. Without a turnaround in fortunes, GM may itself [...] Read More