Brad Nisbet
Brad Nisbet
accelerate active address affordable archives business continued continuity data external growth market multiple storage support systems
The external disk storage systems market growth continued to accelerate through the year. Data growth was one driver, but the availability of affordable systems that support multiple tiers of storage to address data protection, business continuity requirements, and online, active archives also contributed.
additional advantage broad cannot enterprise expect expertise extremely focused leverage reason sell storage sun systems taking tape upside
The overriding upside to the acquisition for Sun is that they now have additional 'feet on the street' who are extremely well-equipped to sell enterprise storage solutions. Yes, they have focused on tape in the enterprise, but we have no reason to expect that these additional salespeople cannot leverage their expertise on the disk systems side, taking advantage of Sun's broad disk storage systems portfolio.
bottom fell growth nice seen since throughout
We've seen kind of blase growth since the bottom fell out in 2001; it's nice to see that throughout 2005 we were accelerating.