No. 4: Storage Vendors Rethink Small
Just about everybody unveiled products for small and midrange companies in 2004, but few reported significant sales to SMBs. If SMB sales dont pick up in 2005, storage marketing folks will have a lot of explaining to do to their bosses. We see the SMB trend continuing, but with some refinements to the "small is beautiful" message.
No. 3: ILM in the Money
EMC is leading the drum-banging about ILM these days, joined by all of its competitors and most of the small hardware and software vendors. Indeed, being in the market means pitching your storage networking gear as ILM -- cheap disk, fixed content storage, and software designed to move information across media as it ages. Never mind that half the pieces are still missing. ILM talk will intensify in 2005:
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