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To: kendall harmon who wrote (29938)	7/2/2001 9:00:56 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 37746

Gary Bloom, CEO of VRTS The era of complete non-spending by IT managers is over. Now is a time of more predictable spending Y2K and the dotcom era caused huge spending among IT managers. Both are now gone The percentage of IT spending going to storage (VRTS' field) is higher than last year Companies are much more confident in spending now Visibility is good here, with the deal flow at VRTS continually improving and with companies talking more aggressively about deals