How about on the server side. What did you end up with there?

We are a UCS shop, but I'll tell you that was a really interesting bake-off. We were an HP shop. We had strong HP loyalty.

What swayed you the other way?

I'd say two things. There's the technology stack. is very dense in terms of memory footprint which helps for virtualization, so we saw a lift from that. But frankly it was the effort Cisco put in. They put a lot of engineering time against it to ask us what our applications did, what kind of CPU power we needed, what kind of memory footprint we had, and took the time to engineer it so we didn't have to overbuy.

Our primary U.S. data center is down in Nashville, and we put a lot of density in there because we realized it's not about the amount of square footage you have, it's how you use the footage. And we asked, how high can we stack? UCS can stack pretty high if you do it correctly, so we can get quite a few blades in each cabinet. Cisco spent I don't know how many hours going through the architecture on that stuff and helping us figure out the right solution.