Recently Sun has moved aggressively into storage, but Kraemer sees storage leaders such as EMC (nasdaq: EMC - news - people) prospering at Sun's expense, as storage becomes an ever more important piece of the information technology puzzle.
And as IT resources, from computes to storage to networking, are being reframed as utilities to be consumed as an operational expense, we will see varied impact as new use cases become available to moreof an ever-growing society looking to take advantage of the benefits of efficient computing.
Self-storage now enjoys record-high occupancy rates of around 90% as people are more apt to keep the discretionary expense during the economic recovery.