But with off-site storage comes loss of physical control.

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Pumping ozone gas into four of its storage rooms reduced the loss from decay to below 2% in 2007.

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Given that storage software is a higher margin business as compared to storage hardware, NetApp will not want to risk any further loss of market share.

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We expect significant growth in external storage devices as network use increases, with resulting congestion, performance degradation and loss of availability.

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