Global CEO and president of storage solutions vendor EMC, Joe Tucci, told ZDNet Australia that although his company won't be the one to provide personal storage offerings - instead preferring to focus on the large and SME spaces - there will soon be a significant market for miniaturised drives that are capable of storing the growing array of information facilitated by the new breed of handheld computers and PDA/mobile phone hybrids.
By combining a growing user hunger for mobile services with an equally veracious stolen mobile phone industry, a recipe for a strong personal storage market is created, according to Tucci.
-People want to access massive amounts of information wherever they are, so they're going to want that information held centrally," Tucci explained. -Memory technology is getting bigger too so in your PDA now you can store information on everybody you ever knew and have access to all kinds of services such as e-mail. You're holding that locally, but when you get a new e-mail, for instance, you're going to need to store the old information somewhere else. [EMC operates] in a central world but there are other companies working to give you the kinds of devices [that will facilitate personal storage]."
Cass Warneminde travelled to Boston as a guest of EMC
