We’ve got 80 percent of them saying don’t know much about it, but 50 percent of those saying if Microsoft had disk-based backup product, they would use it. You can see the depth of branding...

Users need to make data available to both new and old applications, especially while migrating to a new environment. Archiving in XML is a good way to do that.

They’ve bought into a technology that has yet to explode.

People are just starting to get their toes wet in this technology. They haven’t deployed it full-fledged across the entire application infrastructure.

They are unique in their approach.

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And these are all companies that can potentially add value immediately because they have good installed bases, smart employees and good technology as well as market drivers behind them.

The good news is that the scientists and the research centers love taking risks for the next new thing. The problem is that as a stand-alone market, it’s not a huge opportunity.

When a big incumbent like Microsoft gets into the data protection game with a generally available product, the vendors that have had solutions in that space for a number of years are throwing their hats...

An aide to Elliot Spitzer (New York’s attorney general) told me that for law enforcement, having access to e-mail is like eavesdropping. They’ve never had that before.

They all have applicability to larger organizations like CA, and they can fill big product portfolio gaps [for vendors that] want to play in the data protection and information management markets,

The strategy is much clearer than it has been in the past.

We’ve seen a ton of archiving companies developing data-protection technologies during the last six months, … We’ve seen a lot of search engine companies looking at ways to access this information too.

Because of this, organizations are deploying tiered storage and sophisticated software tools to efficiently manage their data and resources. Policy-based movement of data throughout its lifecycle and off-site archiving can help companies improve performance while...

I think customers are a bit confused over the difference between a lot of snapshots and continuous data protection.