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Charles Stevens, Corporate VP, Enterprise Storage Division, Microsoft Corp.: Page 13 of 16

File and print customers care about never losing data. These aren't huge applications, but they have to work. Customers tell us, 'If I can go a whole year without touching that file and print server, that's what I want.' That's the kind of thing we're after.

Byte and Switch: What about InfiniBand?

Stevens: We don't see the industry attention as for iSCSI. It may turn around, but we're not huge believers in it, long term. We'll keep following it.

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