Byte and Switch: Are you evaluating the Cisco Systems Inc. [Nasdaq: CSCO] Fibre Channel switches? Is that something Dell would resell?
Gass: We would collaborate with EMC on something like that. However, we're not going to discuss things we're working on. We are currently working with the current qualified switch providers from EMC. The usual suspects there are Brocade Communications Systems Inc. [Nasdaq: BRCD] and McData Corp. [Nasdaq: MCDTA].
NEXT: IP SANs on Hold
Byte and Switch: What are your general impressions of IP storage and iSCSI?
Rhonda Gass: I think the market in general has developed slower than the entire industry may have thought a year ago. The standards are finally being ratified. I think we're going to be seeing some advancements there. But I think a contributor to the slowness was the general economic environment. We're starting to see that come around.
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