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Editor:- June 4, 2009 - if
you stop and think about how the credit crunch may affect the
data recovery market -
you will see a paradox emerging.
On the one hand - I expect that demand
for these services will increase - because users will extend the interval at
which they replace their systems - thereby taking them closer to the right hand
edge of the
bathtub curve.
On
the other hand - when a failure does occur - particularly in the SMB / SOHO
market - users may shop around more to find lower cost suppliers for these
services.
How will these contrary needs be resolved?
Data
recovery is a very labor intensive business. As we have already seen in many
industries - China has natural competitive advantages because of the lower
hourly cost for skilled technicians. This may lead to Chinese based companies
eventually displacing US and European service providers in non-sensitive / and
non-server markets where it's feasible to ship the disk(s) in a box for the
recovery to take place. |
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