How big is the fibre channel-based storage area network market today?
It is huge and worth about $30 billion. India also is big. Take all the big Indian banks like ICICI and software companies like Satyam, Wipro or Infosys. They all have storage area networks. Everywhere, whether Australia, Middle East or Europe, storage area networks have been deployed. And how much does Brocade account for? Well, the market size for switches of the total market of $30 billion for storage area networks is about $3 billion. And Brocade is No.1 in this with a 60% share of the market. What are your plans now? Data protection is a huge market opportunity. We would like to become leaders in that. What about disaster management? Actually, when you manage a disaster, you protect the data. Protection of data is the effect of disaster recovery. Data continuity is the umbrella under which you have applications, disaster recovery, archival, and finally destruction of data after a mandated time. So, we want to be part of all these areas and thats why we call ourselves a data contin
