I take what Gartner has to say with a few grains of salt. Even so, it is best 
to keep abreast of the data protection industry and not be tied to any one 
narrow area of technology, from the standpoint of maintaining relevancy and 
employability. 

On Nov 6, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Yaron Zabary wrote:

>  I just found Gartner's "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based 
> Backup/Recovery" (which is suprisingly available at 
> http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/ca/vol4/article4/article4.html)
>  and was a bit troubled by the following statement:
> 
> "EMC continues to be challenged to more tightly integrate its portfolio, and 
> questions regarding the future of NetWorker continue to percolate."
> 
> 
> -- Yaron.
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