It's good that HP feels it doesn't have to invent everything as it means they can get to market quickly with new products, ... But they should also be careful they don't end up with a Chinese menu of products to resell as that adds cost and overhead.

We expect WAN file services, network accelerators and remote vaulting to all get bigger in 2006.

The Macintosh storage market has been largely ignored by the major storage players. [Applied Micro Circuits'] entry into the Macintosh storage market will be welcomed by Mac users who require enterprise-like functionality with greater storage performance and capacity for applications such as digital video capture, post-production and graphics.

It's like a big shredder. For every three (cubic) yards you put in, you get one back out.

It's great if you can't afford a dedicated system administrator and you don't need to do much customization. It's not going to be for everyone as it doesn't support all platforms and doesn't provide file-level changes.

Ultimately, we need to shift from a reactive to a proactive and event-based data protection, something that CDP helps to start to facilitate.