NEXT: How Much Software Can You Stick In a Switch?
Byte and Switch: What's your take on the shift from the intelligence being in the storage array to residing in a switch on the network?
Tucci: First of all, it will never be either/or... but you're much better off with the technology working closer to the controller... Why would you want RAID there when you can do RAID so efficiently here? How much software functionality do you think you can stick in a switch? Let me ask you a question. Why did [Sun CEO Scott] McNealy's and [Oracle CEO Larry] Ellison's Network Computer never really take off?
Byte and Switch: Latency?
Tucci: No, that's not true at all. I think it's because the price of the PC collapsed so much, that what was the difference? A network PC has some intelligence in it, this and that, for $400, but you can get a full-blown PC for $600. Storage technology is so sophisticated and so intricate, and the prices are coming down all the time... We aren't going to wake up one day and find all this intelligence in the switch. That's insane. There will be some on the server, some in the network switch which is one piece of the networking layer and some on the array.
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