They've bought into a technology that has yet to explode.
Brian Babineau
When a big incumbent like Microsoft gets into the data protection game with a generally available product, the vendors that have had solutions in that space for a number of years are throwing their hats in the ring,.. Most of the data protection and backup software companies are announcing something next week that has Microsoft integration capabilities.
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We've seen a ton of archiving companies developing data-protection technologies during the last six months,.. We've seen a lot of search engine companies looking at ways to access this information too.
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An aide to Elliot Spitzer (New York's attorney general) told me that for law enforcement, having access to e-mail is like eavesdropping. They've never had that before.
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We've got 80 percent of them saying don't know much about it, but 50 percent of those saying if Microsoft had disk-based backup product, they would use it. You can see the depth of branding and marketing muscle Microsoft can drag along with their product.
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They all have applicability to larger organizations like CA, and they can fill big product portfolio gaps [for vendors that] want to play in the data protection and information management markets
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And these are all companies that can potentially add value immediately because they have good installed bases, smart employees and good technology as well as market drivers behind them.
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They are unique in their approach.
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People are just starting to get their toes wet in this technology. They haven't deployed it full-fledged across the entire application infrastructure.
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I think customers are a bit confused over the difference between a lot of snapshots and continuous data protection.
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