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What is Sun doing to broaden its hardware portfolio in the storage and networking areas?

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What is Sun doing to broaden its hardware portfolio in the storage and networking areas?

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Zander: We come at it from a three-tier computing model: Dedicated application devices, app servers, and the backend with big database servers. And we’re firing on all three fronts. So Solaris and clustering are at the backend, and in the middle are some of our midrange servers together with some of the middleware from Sun ONE. At the front is Cobalt, the Netras, and the [Sun Fire] V880s, with some of the dedicated applications and dedicated functionality to go after the edge devices. As far as storage goes, storage has always been a software play. We’ve always thought about it as EMC and big boxes that get decomposed and get unproprietized, that software moves to the Internet, and that virtualization and storage over IP is the way to go. That’s why we picked up [storage companies] High Ground and LSC. We’ve got an announcement coming in the next 60 days equivalent to Sun ONE. We’re not going to call it Storage ONE, but it’s going to be software architecture and products based around r

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