McCool: What's interesting in (Taser) and several examples like that is its adoption ... a middle market that we hadn't quite anticipated when we came out with the products. Companies like Taser see it as an opportunity to consolidate lots of smaller servers, which traditionally they had been buying, and replace those physical servers that are disparate and bring them together on a physical machine. Initially, we compared (UCS) to the large data-center opportunity, but it's having a tremendous value proposition in that midmarket, which never really went through this phase of consolidation. They're skipping the physical consolidation and then going right to virtual consolidation.

The other component is its relevance in service-provider data centers, where they're interested in hosting their own services to add value to their customer base or their customers' data centers. The multitenancy of the architecture has been really appealing.

And then the third component, I'd say, is that there is a class of enterprise customers who look at deploying the network-based technology and the UCS together to offer services within their enterprise. So they may be ones that had multiple data centers in different divisions or different functions and look at this as a way to emulate those multiple data centers, but consolidate them virtually. There have been more of those, also, than we suspected.