Within the past year the mounting public pressure for companies to secure personal data and the corresponding increase in data protection regulation have forced organizations to re-evaluate the way data is handled. Our research shows that many more are deploying encryption as a protection mechanism.

If Linux works, it affects the whole software industry and that affects Microsoft the most, since they're the biggest fish in the sea.

This is the year that Linux gains critical mass. It'll be very important in big Internet commerce sites.

It's certainly a pretty hefty concern.

Oracle is doing a good job of addressing security in its products, but they haven't figured out how security fits into their internal processes and overall architecture.

Stealing tapes is not the most elegant, but one of the most effective attack factors. Many companies think about hacking in terms of getting root access to servers, but if they have weak physical security, someone can just walk out the door with a box of tapes.

It's a wide open market, ... Cisco will be in the game, but what's gone for them is the opportunity to have a dominant propriety solution.

Cartridges can sometimes be left in unmarked boxes on a loading dock next to somebody's eBay package. Often the most important data goes through the least sophisticated processes.

By the end of this year, you'll have a visible household name with an all-Linux architecture.