As we talk to customers, we find that more and more of them are talking about utilizing continuous data protection as a tool to alleviate the danger of site-wide incidents affecting their ability to stay in business. I am delighted to have this opportunity to discuss the impact of integrating CDP and replication technologies.

It's premature to start talking about the Fed being done. There's still too much (consumer) demand out there before they can call it quits.

What we're seeing now is a pretty brisk uptake in customer adoption.

Towards the end of 2006 and into 2007, you're going to start to see integrated ILM and CDP solutions, where CDP literally feeds the ILM infrastructure. Everything flowing through a CDP stack makes it really easy to apply policies to the data without impacting the online data flow. And that's where I think you really start to see the power of this. Not just in the instantaneous recovery or the DR components of it, but the long-term ILM integration.

The majors are all taking positions. You'll see announcements from all the major storage vendors in early 2006. By the end of 2006, there'll be firefights all over the place, because all of the major OEMs will be competing aggressively against each other for this business, because it's new, it's exciting, it's high value-add. There'll be quite a firestorm by the end of the year.

We weren't talking on defense, and we weren't making shots. We were running, but we making the pass one dribble too late.