Finallythere-- re csco,, kinda scarey. We live by the rule 'buy low, sell high' and then there is chambers. csco sits on about $40 B cash. He had no problem buying competitors when they were tremendously overvalued. Now that some others are 1/2 price or less he has no balls,, brains have become questionable. Guess he wants to wait so he can pay 2 - 10 times more later!
The storage area will grow. Many companys feel the need to store more & more. One day they will realize exactly what needs stored and at what retention periods. Doubtful that will come soon but storing the the last paperclip purchase for 5 decades does not seem like a REQUIRED file.There are soon to be billions of files like that being stored -- just one more record. Lets see-- I have 80 gig,, how many jokes sent by friends are needed to be stored for my grandchildren's grandchildren?