28 Quotes by Steve Duplessie

They're like the perfect Harvard MBA case study: All of their charts go up and to the right. We went right after him, and he killed us -- and I say that with the utmost respect.

They're all filthy rich, but they stay because they truly enjoy the challenge and each other's company. That's a testament to Dan, and the fact that he is smarter than his ego is big.

It's a smart move by Brocade to provide solutions for managing data files in a way that provides access across an entire organization.

It's attractive because you can start really small and get really, really big, ... It's easy, and smart -- the physical design looks pretty intelligent. As you're scaling up, as opposed to doing a forklift upgrade, you can just modularly add in capacity. You won't need a crane to add things in.

The new DMX-3 makes it easier to manage storage inside the box than outside the box. If you ask anybody managing a disk environment what they want, it's a single box that contains all the tiers of storage and has a single point of management for anything.

So, all in all, I applaud the effort. If he can gather up enough user support, he could snowball it into something the vendor world is forced to deal with, but unless that happens it will probably be like wrangling cats.

IP Storage is red hot. IT pros are realizing that the same benefits they get from their Fiber Channel SANs can and should be extended throughout the entire enterprise -- and that means IP.

In the past, SRM was trying to bite off too big a chunk for most to swallow, ... It was too expensive and did so many things that no one could really use it.

Gear has to be idiot-proof to be successful in the midrange, as they don't want to have a zillion IT gurus if all they do is sell paint or donuts,