NEXT: Up the Storage Stack
Byte and Switch: You're talking about a broader utility computing model. That seems to fit in with your recent acquisition of ProvisionSoft, which in addition to storage automation offers server-provisioning capabilities as well. [See Storability Mops Up ProvisionSoft.] Are you guys planning on moving up the stack?
Leisman: We didn't purchase ProvisionSoft so much for the storage or server provisioning as much as for the underlying automation technologies. They have this policy engine, right? And it allows you to do server provisioning or any kind of workflow you want to do. The jewel to us was this automation capability. We can use that for lots of things. So we have server provisioning. We didn't buy it for that. But we're going to see what's going on, and see what the customers want.
Byte and Switch: And that could include server provisioning?
Leisman: It's technology that we have. It's in our product today. So I'm sure some of our customers are going to want to use it. But that's not what we're leading with, by any means.
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