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James B. Rothnie, CTO, EMC Corp.: Page 2 of 9

Well.
If we had a Top Ten list of the Movers and Shakers in Storage Networking, he’d
be on it. But we don’t. So he isn't.

So it was with a sense of eager anticipation that we sat down to interview this
Sultan of Storage. Unfortunately, the excitement didn’t seem to infect
Rothnie, who spent much of the interview huffing and puffing and, frankly,
getting a bit shirty. What follows, then, is an expurgated transcript of his exchange
with Byte and Switch.

Click ahead to read his views on:

EMC’s vision of “networked information storage” (zzzzzzzz)

His dislike of the term “virtualization” (and why HP’s acquisition of StorageApps “doesn’t make sense”)