Why storage startups are hosed (and why "FC versus iSCSI" is a pointless debate)
Byte and Switch: One of the few positive notes to come out
of EMCs second-quarter results this month was that your network storage
products division grew 56 percent over the year-ago quarter. Everything else
seemed to bomb [see EMC Hammered]. How important is this sector to
EMC?
Rothnie: Very. More than 80 percent of information storage will be
networked within a few years, so its obviously going to be very important.
Byte and Switch: Currently EMC has a couple of NAS boxes
one at the high-end, and one for the mid-range market. What other
technologies will EMC need to address this seismic shift towards networked
storage?
Rothnie: Actually we have an entire product family that
addresses the SAN market, from switches via McData Corp. [an EMC spinoff] and
OEM deals with all the leading software and HBA vendors...
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