Storagetek sells mostly tape drives in the Philippines although it has been a long-time original equipment manufacturing (OEM) partner of Sun for some of the latters' storage hardware. After the merger, Siow is hoping more users in the Philippines will buy disk-based hardware that support heterogeneous systems while being able to serve from mid- to high-market segments.

Asked about his perception of the local market, Siow said, "Users (in the Philippines) are becoming more mature. The rationale behind every purchase of new solutions is not just to have a solution in place but if it helps generate revenue, directly or indirectly."

Sun is also gradually rebranding its entire storage strategy into the Storagetek brand. "It will be a product line similar to Solaris and Java," described Siow.