Columnists' corner: The coming year, no doubt, will be a big one for Redmond. Think Crossbow ("that's next-gen Windows Mobile for those who don't like goofy code-names"), Longhorn, Small Business Server 2007, virtualization. "There'll be a lot more, obviously, but these are the ones I'm thinking about," explains Oliver Rist in Microsoft, version 2007.
Storage: One of the hottest topics of this past year was data deduplication and "it should stay so in 2007," according to Mario Apicella in this week's installment of Storage Insider. "No wonder so many vendors are dancing to the data-deduplication tune: No other technology comes even close to cutting down the amount of required storage," he writes. That's not say that Mr. Apicella has no concerns about the technology, though.
Posted by Tom Sullivan on December 28, 2006 10:29 AM
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