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Rich Napolitano, VP of Sun's Data Services Platform Group: Page 4 of 14

Napolitano: That's correct.

Byte and Switch: And what's the advantage of doing that?

Napolitano: Basically you can bring higher-end data services to the array. So you bring virtualization capabilities, snapshot, replication services, dynamic multipathing, etc., to a large-scale array... This is in Sun's product line, the [StorEdge] 6900 series.

Byte and Switch: Why not implement those services in software?

Napolitano: For a couple of reasons. You really want to have a lot of scaleable computation, and an array isn't really designed to do that. So if you look at our architecture, what you see is all of our ports have a lot of CPU associated with them. So we can really scale our performance with the connectivity.