Dell storage GM on EMC, Microsoft, road maps

12.12.2005

Even so, aren't they really entering into EMC's realm with those new capabilities and isn't that a point of conflict between two major partners of yours? My job is not world peace. What I'm trying to do is deliver to Dell's customers. Periodically, one of my partners is not in love with another partner -- Linux, Microsoft, Intel, AMD. But the bottom line is my job is to help customers sort their way through all the technology by helping them make good decisions in picking the right products. There's probably not a better fault-tolerant solution than PowerPath from EMC, but [Microsoft's multipath I/O server operating system] is a pretty good solution and it's coming along. If MPIO gets as good as PowerPath, I really don't care which one of them win. Neither one of them are my design, but both of them are my products. This is the beauty of my leveraged model. I partner with you as long as you have the best product out there.

No loyalty to EMC? We have loyalty to the customer. If you're our technology provider and you fail to provide technology, loyalty doesn't go that far.