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Laura Sanders, VP of IBM Tivoli Storage Software: Page 11 of 11

Sanders: My answer to this question is orthogonal. Nobody seems to care that I run storage management at Tivoli. Why do they care that Brian Truskowski [general manager for storage software in the IBM Systems Group] runs the virtualization software? The way we've established this may be logical over time, or it may not be. We put it there because the first instantiation is with the IBM hardware, and we want that layer to be accessed and manageable by any management system. Meanwhile, I need to be able to manage other people's virtualization layers. That's a logical instantiation of "we're open."

Byte and Switch: What areas are you looking at for acquisitions?

Sanders: Well, we don't really talk about our acquisition strategy, as you can imagine. But what I'm focused on in the portfolio is, how do we do what we need to do right now? Which is, managing growth while ensuring availability and reducing cost. We're not sitting in an industry where everything is fine back at the ranch. The customers are having to deal with some very real problems... and so my focus is on: How do I ensure the availability and optimization of the storage environment? But I don't wake up in the morning and say, "Who do I need to buy today?"

— Todd Spangler, US Editor, Byte and Switch