If its marriage, Arsenal is a polygamist, because it also has partnerships with AT&T Corp. (NYSE: T), AboveNet Inc., and NTT/Verio Inc. (see AT&T Lures Storage Users and AboveNet Intros Storage Service). Arsenal CEO Frank Brick bases his forecast that his company will grow 75 percent to 100 percent over the next three years largely on his relationship with carriers. He says the key to breaking any intertia for disaster recovery and compliance is through carrier services.
Besides offering Arsenals backup-and-restore service, AT&T this month launched an email archive service targeted at organizations looking to comply with federal regulations (see EMC Helps AT&T Archive Email). AT&T uses KVS Inc.
Enterprise Vault software and EMC Corp. (NYSE: EMC)
Centera storage, along with its own Global Enterprise Management System, for its archiving. It houses data in 21 data centers spread across four continents. Customers view their data through a Web portal.
In February, AboveNet allied with European data center services provider IXEurope to boost storage services on its London metro network.
Carriers didnt just start getting into storage. AT&T launched a disaster recovery service using gear from Computer Network Technology Corp. (CNT) (Nasdaq: CMNT) and EMC last May, then added compliance services in September (see AT&T Takes on Disaster Recovery and AT&T Lures Storage Users). Nortel Networks Corp. (NYSE/Toronto: NT)
and EMC formed a business continuity service partnership last October; and Nortel and Sprint Corp. (NYSE: FON) were partners on a metro SAN service launched in September (see EMC, Nortel Tie Optical Knot and Sprint Speeds Into Metro).
The trend appears to be on an upward curve. Gartner/Dataquest
says the managed storage services market will hit $3.7 billion by 2006, and the research firm calls it the second fastest growing segment of the storage services market.
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