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OPINION: Move Over, Blackberry: Page 3 of 3

Forget about backing up this data -- never will happen. Instead, IT staffs have to embrace and extend the iPod concept, and make these units the roaming offsite backups that they learned about in IT school (or the school of hard knocks) and figure it into their enterprise backup plans. It isn't so far-fetched. Maybe the more cynical among you will look upon this suggestion as a way that Strom can finally get his iPod, care of the corporate IT largess (as if). But we'll see more software to embrace the iPod that isn't music-related in the coming year for sure. Move over BlackBerry, this is today's new executive PDA.