Mendocino is definitely a company to watch. With an established pedigree of enterprise storage domain expertise, and a distribution model that delivers application and data recovery solutions to enterprises through trusted supplier partners, Mendocino is well positioned to provide solutions that can meet the most stringent recovery requirements.

EMC is chomping at the bit waiting for this product to come out.

Exchange has been so painful. Restoring the database to look for just one message can be like re-creating the universe just to look for a blade of grass.

If that capability is not built into any [backup] product in the next 18 months, that vendor will suffer.

A Microsoft-based WAN Optimization and/or WAFS platform that offers native integration with native Microsoft security and management technologies is both unique and highly valued by enterprises that have embraced these technologies. Tacit Networks has the only WAN Optimization and WAFS solution we have seen that is able to offer this Microsoft integration to businesses.

It's a strategy that rarely ever works.