However, the shift will never fully occur unless the parties involved are assured that online information is safe. Thus, there is great demand for software applications that ensure security. Moreover, their competencies include public key infrastructure, virtual private networks, antivirus technologies, encryption, and firewalls. The Internet has created unprecedented demand for storage networking. For example, e-commerce companies require trillions of bytes of storage capacity to manage the information created from customers and suppliers to provide better services and foster competitive advantages.
Software is the secret sauce of the storage sector.
Software applications will reduce the complexity and expense of managing storage networks, and promote better network performance. The storage software sector is poised to explode in the future as the adoption of storage networks accelerates. In the first half of this year, the future looked bright for many telecom carriers. Companies were spending billions on new networks, and were on their way toward offering bundles of communications services over high-speed lines. When an industry is subjected to the kind of negativity that telecom carriers are experiencing, it's likely that good companies have been punished along with the bad.