I'm under a nondisclosure agreement, but I can say that we will see a very different kind of storage device from Sun that wraps sheet metal around Galaxy, Solaris, QFS and storage bricks. In fact, the strongest part of this new box is its server component. We'll see it later this year.

John Webster is senior analyst and founder of research firm Data Mobility Group LLC. He is also the author of numerous articles and white papers on a wide range of topics and is the co-author of the book Inescapable Data: Harnessing the Power of Convergence (IBM Press, 2005). John can be reached at jwebster@datamobilitygroup.com.