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The Storage Market Continues to Defy Predictions

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Storage vendors have been forced to become more hardware neutral as the storage business becomes increasingly commoditized. In a strategic move that would have been unheard of two years ago, EMC has moved to an open-software model, with products that will run other companies's software, and vice versa. In addition, most hardware manufacturers are now trying to expand into the higher margin storage software industry sector.