Jamie Gruener

Storage networking remains one of the key elements that enterprises will deploy in the next several years in support of application deployments as well as storage and server consolidation, and as part of the larger shift to network storage. But the ongoing economic climate will curtail many enterprises' plans to deploy these networks in the second half of 2002 and first half of 2003, slowing the growth of the storage networking market for the next several years to one of guarded momentum.