Byte and Switch: Are enterprise customers spending more? How do you see that situation?
Stevens: It varies. Customers are challenged by the fact that there's massive growth in data and having to protect data and do compliance regulation. You have an explosion of email and data, and that's going to continue for ten years. The cost of managing this data is much higher than it was previously, sometimes six times the hardware, software, and people cost.
We're looking at what role we can play to reduce costs, and there are several ways. In the area of hardware, we believe a lot of new serial ATA and nearline storage will come into play. Tape is not going to go away, but in most cases, it will be replaced by fast, low-cost disk storage.
These disk developments will change the whole paradigm of storage, will dramatically bring down the cost of arrays and we think we can bring storage management costs down, too, with better software, better management integration. That will bring down the cost of managing data.
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