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Cisco Still a Kid in Storage: Page 2 of 2

But nobody’s counting Cisco out in the long-term storage game, either.

“Cisco came into storage networking thinking just because they are Cisco, they can instantly become a storage monster,” says Arun Taneja, founder of the Taneja Group. “Yet some of their people on the storage side didn’t even know storage terminology. They’re still going through a transition. They don’t have the reputation on the storage side yet. But they’ll get it right eventually, I’m convinced of that.”

That’s the way Cisco sees it, too.

“He [Chambers] was saying, ‘Hey, we’re the new guys in storage -- it’s going to take a little time to get there,’ ” says Cisco spokesman John Noh. “Generally, the company as a whole is optimistic about the traction we will be getting in the coming quarters.”

— Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch