Tucci: It was more than performance. The back-end drives we were using were expensive... We had a four-bus structure; they had a switch.
Byte and Switch: Isn't the new Direct Matrix Architecture really just smoke and mirrors to improve your own cost base, rather than the great leap forward in technology you are claiming?
Tucci: How do you explain the tests?
Byte and Switch: Err... those would be the internal EMC benchmarks?
Tucci: We patented a switched architecture. [Ed. note: Although EMC never released a version of the Symmetrix with a switched internal architecture.] There's no way you can get a switched architecture to run this fast.
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