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Does Emulex have an official anything that saves capital and networking - be available
view on all of the talk/thoughts equipment and provides in a virtualised pool that can
Q &
re network convergence? flexible options for businesses be dynamically allocated to
Definitely. During our recent will make fundamental sense meet specific service level
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30th anniversary celebration for the industry to adopt. agreements.
on Feb 18th, we announced
our next major focus will be And the vendor/channel We have made significant
on converged networking community? investments in virtualisation
solutions. In the value-added reseller at the VPort-level, intelligent
(VAR) community, there are networking services through
We view these as core clearly people who are our OneCommand™ manage
JIM McCL
technologies for our business reselling SalesForce.com, using ment framework and data
going forward. Converged Amazon S3, Google Apps and encryption and protection
networking is at the perfect Microsoft Great Plains online in-flight and at-rest thorough
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confluence of events and services, so I do believe that our new secure Fibre Channel
market conditions to be the the channel community is HBA technology. These value
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next big thing for data centres. ready for cloud computing. propositions all support cloud
computing and place us in a
It has the right cost savings, In many ways, this segment strong position for further
the right business value and probably embraces new growth in this market.
the right competitive story for technologies like this more
the current focus on quickly than many of the Any other trends/ technologies
operational efficiency. OEMs. For VARs, better margins that we need to keep an eye
and service opportunities go on – other than the obvious
As if all of the above isn’t hand-in-hand with selling credit crunch?!
enough to keep everyone on new technologies to early We see five big trends to
its toes, along comes Cloud adopters. watch over the next couple of
Computing – are end users years.
ready yet? Does Emulex have any specific
The big question for most value propositions with First, there are new
people is how do you define reference to Cloud Computing? advancements coming for
cloud computing? Typically, We have a number of key server deployments. We have
cloud computing has been value propositions related to already transitioned from rack
characterised as a dynamically cloud computing. First, cloud servers to server blades. We
allocated virtual pool of computing is defined as being are now seeing deployments of
services that an IT department virtualised and ubiquitous, servers that are not individual
or service provider can deliver and nothing is more chassis of blades, but rather
for a customer to provide a ubiquitous than IP. With our entire racks or shipping
given application with a given newly announced OneConnect™ containers used as networking
level of service. Universal Converged Network pods. As we see deployments
Adapters (UCNAs), we are able continue to change on the
However, definitions aside, the to use network convergence server side, we will see a
short answer is yes, some end to provide connectivity and parallel change in how I/O and
users are ready for cloud support for the universal networking is deployed.
computing, but like all new access requirements of cloud
technologies, cloud computing computing. Second, we see the evolution
will be adopted in stages of server centric networks. This
and it will continue to Cloud computing also is the disaggregation of I/O
grow over the next four to five represents the natural evolution into a shared, top-of-rack
years. With budget and cost of virtualisation. It requires all resource inside the rack using
issues being a top concern, resources - servers, storage technologies such as Enhanced
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