For storage system providers, it is a tale of two markets. Customers in the United States are installing new systems to comply with rules required under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Their Asian counterparts, meanwhile, are primarily concerned with the need to drive costs down and reduce the complexity of their present systems.
But this could change, especially for Asian companies with global ambitions.
Corporations seeking to do business in the United States - and tap into the country's capital markets - will need to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley as well.
'To the extent that Asian companies have major US operations, they will have to deal with the US regulatory environment,' said John Thompson, the chief executive of Symantec.
Symantec agreed last December to a merger with Veritas, a provider of storage software.