The district manager wanted to win the league, ... That's why I got into IT (information technology).

The growing complexity of our customers' environments has imposed an artificial ceiling on their growth potential,

The harsh reality of reduced budgets and the uncertainty of the economic and geopolitical climate are weighing heavily on business confidence, causing key projects and the corresponding IT spending to be delayed.

In 2005 we invested more than a billion dollars in research and development to make information lifecycle management really come alive for customers. During the year our platforms and our portfolio of software and services will continue to expand to address new markets and customer priorities.

Small and medium businesses are faced with the same challenges as our enterprise customers -- explosive information growth, the need to improve productivity and lower costs, and a requirement for simplicity.

The networking of storage is reshaping information technology around the increasingly strategic role of intelligent storage. Over the next few years, more than 80 percent of the world's storage systems will be directly connected to some type of network.

For any company to be truly great in this global world, with the pace of technological change, it's impossible to go it alone.

It is very difficult, with the pace of technological development, to go it alone.

There will be more information created in the next three years than the last 40 thousand combined.

As Americans, we are terrible eaters. People go to Europe and say the food is so terrific there. That's because people sit down at the table together -- it's a celebration. That's what it should be here.