To sign with a new server partner is just not realistic at this point, considering the relationships they have in place today -- not to say I wouldn't want to.

Most users I've talked with consider the TagmaStore array and its virtualization technology solid. But how many are actually using it to pool heterogeneous storage vs. using just internal disk on the array itself? A quarter to a third of them. We've sold 1,700 systems, so that's a material number of users, I'd argue. One of the things we're finding people are using virtualization for a lot is data migration. Where it's more difficult to migrate other people's technologies, they'll use our engine for data migration -- even on other people's [arrays]. But we do have people running in production with IBM, EMC and others that batch to the [TagmaStore] controller.

Would you ever port your virtualization software to a network device, like Cisco's MDS switch? Not at the moment. We intentionally brought our midrange product out, the NSC55, to bring it down a level. But we haven't, at this point, looked at porting to somebody else's technology. That doesn't mean we won't. But that's not in our current plans.

Booming almost as quickly as midrange storage are low-end systems for enterprises with many branches. Do you plan any products for that market in the next three to six months? That's an area that goes back to our channel discussion, where we need to have a good, viable, low-cost product to go into that market. And I think you'll see something from us in that six-month time frame. We see that as the key market we want to attack over time. That's where we need the distribution as well as the product. Having one without the other doesn't help you a whole lot. As HDS, we're really not set up to effectively enter that market, because our sales model isn't geared to that.

HP, Sun, IBM and Dell all have their own servers to help drive storage sales, but would you ever consider partnering with a Dell, like EMC did, to help with distribution? Well, we could if they'd be interested. We are partnered with HP and Sun today in the enterprise. We do know how to do that. Today, we've not found a server partner of that stature.