Derek Leslie

It's become the new 10 gig, right?

People are going from...

you know, figuring out what's next.

I think I've just seen people who have, again, chosen to just skip 48 all they're all together.

Cause maybe it was too much too expensive to proprietary, um, or settling on, on 25 gig and the switch vendors.

Um, you'll see the major ones are following suit and that's the real indicator.

I think.

Yeah, 40 gig, in my view, is no longer necessary right now that there are the cheap 100 gig and 25 gig options.

As I talk to all of our switch vendors and partners, they're exactly that.

There's just not the huge price delta.

I mean, if you originally, a couple years ago, if you wanted to go after 40 gig or if we pitched 40 gig as a storage company, the total cost of ownership ripping out your existing switching infrastructure is a little too high.

So they were really steering away from that.

So this is a much easier, no-brainer acquisition.

Customers that don't even want to think about 25 gig, they just don't have to.

They can continue to use their 10 gig infrastructure, and that'll be fully supported, and it's not an additional set of SKUs or something different that we have to support.

But that's another thing.

No customer, as they're moving towards their next generation data center, wants to be the special customer or the only one running in a certain config.

So the fact that we're helping the entire broad set of our customer base standardize is really helpful, even from a networking perspective.

We are choosing to target from a hypervisor perspective on what we're deploying at first and automatically setting up for them to be VMware.

So we're starting out with VMware 6.0 of a fast follow of 6.5.