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Jan 18 2006
Storage Jamboree – Crowded Market
Storage Jamboree | Computerworld Blogs:
"There are over fifty storage system vendors. Six have over a billion in revenue, Ten have over 100 million in revenue. And a bunch of the others are marching torwards 100 million. Where is the "Cisco" of storage?"
Lots of vendors, lots of competition – in theory, that makes for good pricing.
Really, for those of us on the other side of the fence, it makes for more confusion – a greater need for standardised vocabulary, more education, more non-marketing content that we can make sense of.