Moving forward, Latinazo said that EMC plans to expand on its position as the premier provider for information infrastructure, a market that is expected to reach approximately $55 billion in the year 2006. The company is also targeting new segments such as gaming infrastructure, call centers, government, and transport.

Jon Murray, program manager of EMC South East Asia, said that the key drivers for growth this year would be compliance issues; security landscape; virtualization; integrated backup, recovery, and archive; and enterprise content management.

'The needs of the market are changing. The concern will no longer be about an information infrastructure's capacity, but its intelligence. Intelligent storage is the future. It means attaching meaningful context to information so that it tells the infrastructure what to do,' said Murray.