Reality Research finds that among end-user companies that use or plan to use SANs, half are using SANs and half plan to do so within 12 months. Most of those planning to deploy SANs are targeting launch dates between April and September 2001. Most of those planning to deploy NAS are targeting launch dates between July 2001 and July 2002. The margin of error on 400 responses is 4.9 percent at a 95 percent confidence interval. Sponsorship benefits include sponsor-specific data collection, consultation with Reality on the scope of the study and customized data segmentation of quantitative findings.
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