"Our technology and market leadership, large installed base, storage-networking expertise and the industry's broadest ecosystem of application partners are a powerful combination that will uniquely position Brocade to lead the next phase of the evolution on the storage-networking market," Reyes asserted.
To do that, G.E. will have to work with partners to license its holographic storage technology and expertise, and the company is already talking with major electronics and optical storage producers, said Bill Kernick, who leads G.E.'s technology sales unit.
And separately, it has, over decades, developed a different area of expertise: the storage of data that doesn't belong in a data center.
Unless you possess a certain level of expertise in storage devices, power electronics and motors, you won't control your own destiny.
He said CCS was also an opportunity for the UK, which has expertise and storage potential in its North Sea oil and gas industry: "The UK may even in future be earning money from CCS".
The two were a good match to work on StorSimple because Parikh had a strong track record in WAN acceleration and Pangal had expertise in storage.
Other limitations include cost of cadaver preparation and storage as well as expertise required for embalming cadavers.
Increasingly, such data sets are being maintained digitally, even in low-income areas, as the cost of electronic data storage decreases and technical expertise increases.
Some have suggested this expertise in online storage and streaming could be something Apple wants to use in iTunes.
The company competes with EMC as well as I.B.M. and other data storage companies, and 3Par's expertise in the high end has made it attractive.
