Byte and Switch: Why is Intel investing in a company like RASilient System? [See Rasilient Rustles Up Cash.]
Wall: That ties into what we're talking about. We're looking to plant seed funding into the market to develop these low-cost platforms using these new technology. You take RASilient: They're looking to deliver a low-cost storage platform based on iSCSI and Serial ATA, and so we're providing them with seed funding to help them accomplish that. We also made an investment in Wasabi Systems Inc. They have a real-time operating system based on NetBSD and are looking at some iSCSI target capabilities. We've also invested in DataCore Software Corp.; they're doing storage virtualization. [See Intel Takes Stake in Wasabi.]
Byte and Switch: So you're looking at these technologies initially anyway as targeting a low-end market because you think that's where the traction is?
Wall: It's volume. It's been Intel's operating model for a long time. The volume economics kicks in, and we can afford to continue to churn out more silicon, better, cheaper, and faster, and then that volume spawns innovation from companies that perhaps could not even think about it in the past, and I just mentioned three small companies that are trying to innovate and get some traction. Then it just keeps feeding itself.
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