bangalore storage is a huge market in india with organisations churning out mindboggling chunks of critical data everyday seeing the huge opportunities to store this data here global storage companies like emc network appliances storagetek and storage software companies like veritas are coming here to set up operations the result a crowded market place on storage front however everyone is sure about grabbing the maximum slice of the storage pie t srinivasan country manager emc the worlds largest storage vendor with 9 billion sales speaks about the need for separate storage solutions in india what is the current storage scenario in india it is only in the past one year there has been a growing awareness of enterprise storage india has been a very servercentric marketplace till now with companies like sun microsystems ibm and compaq handling data storage it is only now that storage as a separate entity is being formedd what is the market size of storage in india the size of the indian market place is estimated by idc at about 1300 tb for year 2001 however much of this would be internal storage but right now when we talk of percentages the figures would look ridiculously low because we are starting right from scratch but you see in the asia pacific the growth is around 100 per cent right now separate storage solutions had been deployed about 34 years back and i am sure that this will be the trend here too right now hard data is not available just estimates are given only at the end of this year we can get some facts and for us at emc what is more important is the value of our offerings lie in the software that enables enterprise storage rather than just the hardware what is the current trend you notice here the finance and telecom industries will take the lead in such implementation because their whole business is being informationled this will be closely followed by corporates and government departments who have implemented erpscmcrm and other mission critical applications why should storage be a separate decision from servers servers are meant to do computingprocessing if companies use servers for filesharing backuprestore etc they will not derive appropriate return on investments also most companies have different servers for different applications eg one for erp one for billing another for customer relationship management crm among others and if these are servers from different vendors as they typically tend to be then islands of information get formed though the idea is to consolidate enterprise storage helps companies in protecting sharing and managing their corporate information in a manner such that they have information available 24 x 7 x forever what are the major differences between san and nas and how does emc combine both technologies storage area network san and network attached storage nas are technologies to implement enterprise storage in large enterprises there is a need for both these technologies to coexist the choice of the technology