Byte and Switch: But moving intelligence to the edge changes the locus of control in the storage infrastructure, right?
Napolitano: I don't disagree, and in some ways it's not in Tucci's best interests for it to happen... The point is, it was a great business model for [EMC]. And they made a lot of money. And life was good. And they had a great solution. But what we see rolling forward is that people want that degree of freedom to pick their back-end storage subsystem.
Byte and Switch: So the idea is the Pirus technology will be used as a way to get into data centers where Sun storage doesn't currently play?
Napolitano: It's really multiple. That's one proposition which is our support of heterogeneous storage allows us to sell into accounts without necessarily having to sell our storage. That's true. But what we've found is people want to buy our storage, but they want to be able to keep their old stuff working. Storage is very different from networking components... People don't throw anything out.
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