Where are you in terms of accomplishing your plan to consolidate HP's data centers into six facilities? We're in the process of identifying all the sites [for the new data centers]. We have some identified; we have options on real estate or buildings in the case of a number [of them]. By the end of March, we will have all six of them identified and announced.

Will they be geographically dispersed around the world? No. Where it's looking like right now is Houston, Austin and Atlanta.

You've talked about a "lights-out" data center. Are you talking about that in terms of these six data centers? Yes, I am.

Can you explain just what you mean by that? Literally, in order to run the data center, inside the data center, you only have personnel required for security, and not for IT operations. IT operations really end up being something that can happen anywhere in the world.

HP sees this as an opportunity to showcase its technology to potential customers. What kind of pressure does that put on you? It's certainly pressure to talk about things before they are finished. That's probably the biggest pressure. But on the other side, it actually will bring us a lot of support and help from the product and R&D communities [within HP] because they see it as being important.