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The need to control and secure a continuing explosion of data across the corporate world is forcing IT managers to constantly be on the lookout for new equipment that can handle perpetually evolving requirements.

EMC may be set to close a US$76 million purchase of the Mozy online backup product from Berkeley Data Systems, according to a report on the TechCrunch blog.

EMC President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Joe Tucci on Monday predicted that the storage market will undergo significant changes in 2006 due to the prevalence of emerging technologies and growth potential in new customer segments.

Companies looking to strengthen their data backup and recovery methods will have some new options as products arrive with enhanced disk and tape capabilities and improved functionality.

From the corporate boardroom to the enterprise data center, the 50 men and women on this list exercise power within the network industry to one degree or another. Some have the clout to sway the world's technology decisions, while others command attention within vertical industries, particular market segments or simply -- though not inconsequentially -- within their own organizational domains. We have ranked each of our 2004 power-brokers based on such stature, as well as on the person's visibility and the ways in which the person functions as a role model. To see how these 50 fit together, we've aligned them by category as well, from the titans to the standards-setters.

EMC announced Tuesday that it has purchased Dantz Development in a multimillion-dollar deal that the storage vendor hopes will better position it to sell data backup technology in the small-to-medium-size-business market.

Open source spells doom for Oracle, DB2 . . . Sybase and other general-purpose databases, predicts Tim O’Reilly. “MySQL might do to databases what Apache did for Web serving,” says the president of technical book publisher and conference organiser O’Reilly & Associates. Apache, he claims, has forced Microsoft to make its IIS Web server software “effectively free in bundles”. David Axmark, co-founder and “open sorcerer” at MySQL, the developers of the open-source database, cautions that you won’t see Larry Ellison approving free deals for Oracle9i in the near future, if ever. Still, he says, “MySQL has already forced prices down in databases.” And the price pressure will pick up steam with the release of MySQL Enterprise in two years.

Your Mac's hard drive may be a regular behemoth compared to what you had even a few years ago, but then again, your files have gotten bigger too. Your archive of Adobe Photoshop projects, video from your DV camcorder, and your collection of favorite MP3s can eat up gigabytes of space, creating hardships for even the most monstrous of drives.

Dantz Development Corp. Retrospect has long enjoyed an excellent reputation among Macintosh users, and beginning with Retrospect Backup Server 5.0, Windows users can benefit from this solid, well-designed workstation backup product. System managers will find a lot to like about Retrospect -- it's fast, easy to use, reliable, and very affordable. It also makes desktop backups and restores simple to do, which is what managing a network is all about.