Past QuickPoll Questions View Results Do you trust multi-vendor SANs? View Results Does your company lag behind on networking technology? View Results Is it difficult to achieve high availability in a Windows environment? View Results Have you adopted a "tiered storage" strategy? View Results Do you think your company's storage management would improve through the use of thin-client computing? View Results Do you wish you could replace your SAN? View Results Would your company benefit from capacity licensing? View Results Is your company actively pursuing a tiered storage architecture? View Results Is your company ready for object-based storage? View Results Does your organization need to better protect its remote data? View Results Do you think that managing NAS capacity should be a priority within your organization? View Results Do you believe Sun can stage a storage comeback? View Results Do you believe there is an immediate need for a SATA II and SAS standards conformance test bed? View Results Backing up data to an iPod is: View Results Are you interested in more education opportunities? View Results How well does your IT department get along with business users in your organization? View Results Does top management value storage technology in your organization? View Results Would you rather work with one vendor or many? View Results Can you do ILM with your available resources? View Results Would grid storage benefit your organization? View Results Would thin-client technology make your organization more memory-efficient? View Results How prepared is your company to recover lost data? View Results Could storage partitioning help your company? View Results Do you believe Windows is secure enough for your storage environment? View Results Would you change employers for a 10% raise? View Results Do vendors tell the truth about ILM? View Results Are you seriously interested in SMI-S? View Results How would you rate your backup software? View Results Is your organization using wireless technology in a significant fashion? View Results Is your company willing to spend money to save money? View Results Is your company flexible when it comes to forming long-term storage networking strategies? View Results Is the evoluion of Fibre Channel user-driven? View Results Do you think hospitals are technologically unsophisticated? View Results Would your organization benefit by deploying the utility computing model? View Results Does your company play vendors off each other in order to get better deals? View Results What is the likelihood that you will take courses through the SNIA’s new Education Continuum? View Results Is your boss competent? View Results Do you think regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley and HIPAA are too severe? View Results Do you believe that ILM is truly valuable or just vendor hype? View Results How would you rate current SRM tools: View Results Do you think back-end switching is a valuable technology? View Results How important are remote copy capabilities to your company? View Results Does your company need to consolidate its storage resources? View Results Would you like more contact with your peers? View Results Do you like working with APIs? View Results Is Jon William Toigo too critical of SANs? View Results In your organization, would you characterize storage as: View Results Is your storage budget higher this year than last? View Results Is iSCSI a flop? View Results Is your company currently planning an information lifecycle management architecture? View Results Do you foresee intelligent switches in your storage networking future? View Results Do you believe Fibre Channel vendors are making a sincere effort to make their products interoperable? View Results How much more competitive would your company be if your storage infrastructure were more interoperable? View Results Have you taken steps to integrate your mainframe and open systems storage management functions? View Results Do you believe that vendors are sincerely interested in helping your company succeed? View Results In your storage shop, is Linux ready for prime time? View Results Is long-haul replication a viable alternative for your company? View Results How would you rate the consultants and third-party software vendors you have worked with? View Results Do you think metered storage is a good idea? View Results Are you comfortable building multi-vendor storage networks? View Results Is your company interested in Windows-powered NAS? View Results Is your company interested in using ATA drives for storage data that was previously maintained on tape? View Results How important is virtualization to you? View Results How well protected is your desktop data? View Results Does your company's top IT officer understand the value of storage automation? View Results Will your company deploy an IP SAN within the next year? View Results Are you in control of your vendors? View Results Would you buy storage networking products from a small vendor? View Results Does your company plan to spend money on a SAN during the coming year? View Results Can you envision tape as a form of primary storage for your company? View Results Is storage the most important technology to your company's top IT officer? View Results As a percentage of your company's IT budget, is your storage budget increasing, decreasing or staying the same? View Results How would you evaluate morale in your IT shop? View Results How important is automated provisioning to you? View Results Do established storage networking vendors care more about themselves or their customers? View Results Do you believe that SAN interoperability problems are slowing the adoption of SANs? View Results Do you believe that SAN interoperability problems are slowing the adoption of SANs? View Results Do you believe networked storage will become a profit center within the next two years? View Results Is storage networking technologically ahead of or behind the times? View Results Do you believe that storage networking industry analysts are truly objective in their public utterances? View Results Do you believe that current SRM technology is useful to your company? View Results Does your company do a good job of deleting obsolete and unnecessary data? View Results Do you view IP SANs as a favorable cost alternative to Fibre Channel? View Results Do you believe that the inability of vendors to integrate networking capabilities is holding back the overall progress of storage networking? View Results Do you believe that storage networking vendors are sincerely trying to work together? View Results Are SAN costs and complexity stopping your company from implementing SANs? View Results Do you believe enterprise SANs are secure? View Results Do you believe that any storage networking vendor can provide one-stop shopping for a complete solution? View Results Do you believe the CIM/WBEM initiative will lead to positive results for your company? View Results Would a departmental SAN or SANs be good for your company? View Results Do you believe that disk-based storage will become less expensive than — and preferable to — tape during the next five years? View Results How open is your company to innovative storage management solutions? View Results Is your storage networking budget strictly based on a ‘do more with less’ strategy? View Results Now that Microsoft has announced its long-term storage strategy, do you expect the company to become a major player in the storage networking market? View Results How Long Does it take to build a SAN? View Results Does your company plan to make any major storage networking technology purchases in the next 12 months? View Results Do vendors do a good job of explaining their products to you? View Results Do you believe that storage service providers can ensure high levels of availability, performance and data security? View Results Are users really committed to standards? View Results Is your company interested in automated storage provisioning? View Results Does your organization have its own homespun version of virtualization? View Results Is virtualization pie-in-the-sky? View Results Do you believe the new Storage Performance Council will develop meaningful standards? View Results How would you rate the current quality of SAN management software? View Results Do you believe data archiving can provide you with substantial benefits? View Results Which of the following areas represents the biggest barrier to the deployment of storage systems throughout your company? View Results Do you believe iSCSI is a serious threat to Fibre Channel? View Results Do you believe that large user companies will increasingly trust their data to storage service providers? View Results Do you consider your primary vendors and service providers to be strategic business partners? View Results Do you believe that your manager deserves to be in his/her position? View Results Do you believe that the current storage industry is where the networking industry was 15 years ago? View Results Is your company interested in moving storage over wide-area networks? View Results Do you believe storage networking users will benefit from the formulation of the SNIA's Supported Solutions Forum? View Results Do you believe NAS has a promising future? View Results Are you clear on the definition of "virtual storage"? View Results Do you believe SANs are secure? View Results What is the best storage networking technology solution? 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