Byte and Switch: What is Dell's thinking on the trend of disk-based backup systems? [See Avamar Kicks It to Disk, EVault Intros Software, StorageTek to Punch Into Disk Backup, EMC Has Eyes for Huge Archives, NetApp's Backup Plan, and Quantum Slips Disks Into Backup.]
Gass: We see that as a very real trend. There's a lot of interesting things going on with the advent of Serial ATA and the price paradigms they're going to bring to the industry. They also bring performance, potentially, to decrease the backup window and to really be able to make hierarchical storage management come to bear.
Byte and Switch: Will we see cost per megabyte of storage continue to drop? Or has that stabilized?
Gass: I think it will continue to come down... But the way we approach this is through a total cost-of-ownership proposition. Networked storage is going to allow us to approach total cost of ownership and return on investment in a way that's going to drive your overall cost-per-megabyte down. It's not going to be raw capacity price, per se, but the way you bring the various technologies to bear on a particular problem that's going to give you better TCO and ROI.
Byte and Switch: One last question: Are you going to get Steven the Dell Dude to start selling SANs?
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