I’m taking a world-wide approach on cloud. What I’m seeing is there’s significant disparity between certain geographic locations (e.g., US, Japan, certain parts of Europe) and the bandwidth they get vs what the rest of the world gets in relation to internet bandwidth (and cost). So yes, there may be a higher percentage in certain regions, but as an overall percentage I’m willing to stick to 10% at best in that regard.

On the Avamar front, the capacity offering you mentioned is a good point. Like so much of backup and recovery, there’s not so much one right way as multiple right ways, and a couple of “best options” for any one environment.

Cheers,

Preston.

I will give your thoughts a good think, but some initial reactions:

- I think more people will move to the cloud than we give credit for (my long running survey says about 50% of businesses would move to the cloud). I think in the SMB space there is no good reason why it shouldn’t be closer to 80% or more.

- I also disagree with the notion that 35 TB cartridges make tape any more competitive from a TCO point of view than disk. You need a lot of tape heads to feed those cartridges, vs. just one disk array. And that disk usually gets 30x (with dedup) so a 35 TB Avamar store could easily hold 1-2 PB of data.

But you have lots of interesting points Preston. I am not dismissing what you say at all.

Scott