With the renewed focus on the lucrative SMB market, however, isnt there a risk that vendors could "dilute" their enterprise products, potentially pulling resources away from higher-end technologies?
"Thats a good question, admits King, but he adds that vendors such as EMC and IBM are shrewdly letting their partners do much of the SMB leg-work. Its unlikely that SMBs will contact EMC directly its more likely that a reseller or channel partner will take the lead in selling the storage.
If the current trends continue, we may not even be talking about "SMB" and "enterprise-class" storage in a few years time, referring instead, to just plain old "storage."
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