Byte & Switch sat down with McCluney in New York this week to talk virtualization, 10-Gbit/s Ethernet, and further acquisitions.Next Page Interview
Byte & Switch: You recently announced your intention to refocus Emulex on host server products, embedded storage, and networking. What does the roadmap look like?
McCluney: We're looking at other technologies like virtualization, security, and encryption, that we will put across our entire product set.
We have the [virtualization] capabilities now through [our] Aarohi [acquisition]. Were going to take that and embed the same technologies into our I/O products, as well as working with OEMs to provide simple appliances that [users] can use to drive virtualization. They will be little servers that will have our chips embedded in them and low-cost storage processors to port your software of choice to.
On security, we're working with standards committees and the server and storage OEMs to make sure the technologies we're building into our next-generation chips meet their data protection requirements. This is for both data at rest and on the move.
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