GLG News by Network Security Solutions and Services Sellers

The different drivers for Enterprise and Consumer will remain stable and more dynamic on the consumer side. HDD vendors will grow constantly as data and units growth is exceeding growth by tech and price decline. New stars on storage to come up and might drive interesting aquisitions.

Soho / consumer NAS will show stable growth in high 2digits over the next years. While the competition environement has become more close over the last 2 years, this segment is still in the beginning. Iomega offers a well known brand and market awareness for the low end segment.

In depth partnership between Ciena and Hitachi Data Systems will suggest both companies are targeting the ISP / Telecommunication market and are expecting further changes in regulations how (long) critical data in the www has to be stored tomorrow.

1) Due diligence is expected and the news of tightening belts was predicted. 2) In the last quarter we have found all verticals are experiencing some level of conservative spending. 3) However, we have also seen increased spending with some vendors and/or specific vendor products and solutions. ...

I will agree, that a collapse is overkill. But I see a softening of transactions and more projects help up at CFO level and because companies can't hire, and retain talent efficiently. This talent is the hold up of implementing new technologies, none the least is datacenter challenges around power. ...

WAN optimization may not be considered a luxury when customers have no choice but to add it to their infrastructure when bandwidth options are limited and response times have eroded.  Adding more bandwidth or server power does not solve all latency and performance issues, and optimization...

Google's team edition of Google apps seems like an IT worst nightmare: all the company documents on a public server. But is it really that bad? What about having all your sales leads on a public server, wouldn't that be even worse? Oh wait isn't that what salesforce.com is all about? Completely outsourced...

Business continuance will now become a top of mind issue, especially in global outsourced solutions.

So if even a MySpace has bugs that exposes private data of their users to anyone on the web, then what about all the other web sites where we enter our private data? How do we know that the banking web site or the credit card web site doesn't have the same kinds of "bugs"? Consumers are trusting more...

Sun is buying MySQL for almost a billion dollars. This looks like a big gamble. Why are they doing this? Is MySQL worth that much?