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James B. Rothnie, CTO, EMC Corp.: Page 6 of 9

Byte and Switch: What do you think it means?

Rothnie: Some people talk about management schemes and
others say it’s about putting a device in the middle of the network to fan
out the storage. All this confuses the market. We call it “networked
information storage,” which is about the blurring of NAS and SAN…

[Note: Goes off again.]

Byte and Switch: Right. That clears up the confusion then... So. What do you make of Hewlett-Packard Co.’s decision to
acquire StorageApps, which also is involved in virtualization? [See HP Acquires StorageApps.]

[Note: Rothnie appears to really hate this question.]