E-business is raising the profile of storage technology in the minds of IT managers, and storage technologies continue to provide ever-greater capacity and faster throughput to meet the growing demand. Unfortunately, incompatibility between vendors' products is still a problem in areas such as storage area networks, which means packaged solutions from a single supplier are still considered the safest option.
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After a year on the job, Sun's CEO says the company is relevant again but still has problems to fix. In this interview, he admits losing sight of the developer community towards the end of the 1990s, and making what he described as a very bad decision about the company's commitment to Solaris.
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Making predictions about the storage market isn't difficult. Suggest that capacities will go up and costs will go down and you shouldn't go too far wrong.
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