 Stu Miniman with wikibon.org, here with SiliconANGLE TVs live continuous coverage, wall-to-wall coverage from EMC World 2012 in Las Vegas. Joining me is David Foyer, CTO of Wikibon, and we're going to do a segment diving in with one of the IT practitioners here at the show. Always love to have the people with their hands on the equipment, being able to share their experiences and give advice to their peers as to what's going on. And joining us for this segment is David Gutschau from Rosetta Stone. He's a storage engineer. David, welcome to the queue. Thank you. So first, could you tell us a little bit about, you know, what is your role at Rosetta Stone and, you know, a little bit about your IT environment? Sure. The storage engineer and backup administrator for Rosetta Stone, in charge of our global storage environment, includes file shares, block storage, all of our backup equipment. We're in the process of building out a whole global backup environment. So currently we've got multiple VM, excuse me, EMC arrays in our environment. We've got some CX4, 960s, the NS960, the new VNX5700, and just kind of building out as we go. Okay, so virtualization is a pretty sizable part of your environment? Yes, it is. Could you give us a little bit of an idea of the scale, what's the size of your VM farm and the compute that goes with it? Yes, certainly. Our VM farm is based off of the Cisco UCS chassis and we're sitting right now at about five to 600 VMs and we're about 75% virtualized at this point. Great, and how long have you been on this journey to virtualization? The last three years. Okay. So it's taken us a while. When I started there, it was a very small environment and we weren't sure how we were going to go and it became more and more important to us and the ease of use and the ability to do the things we could do with it, it has just grown and grown and grown. So it's been very successful for us. So I know Rosetta Stone because my son is using Rosetta Stone to learn Korean. Sir. Well, that's what he's meant to be doing, but you know, he's 15, right? So there's a lot of pictures, a lot of video, a lot of files in that. You're responsible for all of those internationally, is that right? Yes, sir. And all the other stuff as well. Yes. The product itself is meant to be very dynamic and immersive. So in doing that, the way it works is you're showing a lot of pictures and a lot of sound bites and things like that as you go along and it helps you learn the language, the way you learn your original language. We all, when we're all babies, we all learn by hearing what's going on around us and seeing the way things work and our product is designed to imitate that function. And so we've got hundreds of millions of files of images and sound clips and things like that that are all stored on our file shares and on our storage. And it's just, it's a large amount of data to keep track of and protect. Right, absolutely. And EMC has helped us to accomplish that. Oh, great. So one of the things that I was interested in is that I think you've got a VCE. Could you tell the story about how that came about? It's a slightly unusual one. Sure. We were, when the Vblock was first announced, we were in the process of buying a new CX-4960 array and also building out our UCS farm. And at the time, we weren't sure exactly how the Vblock was going to work out for people and how it looked. So we actually purchased all the parts ourselves, the CX-4960, the Nexus networking gear and the UCS gear and kind of put it all together for ourselves and build up with the help of the vendors. And along the way, they allowed us to go back and be re-certified as a Vblock. So we've got the Vblock certification for our setup, even though we weren't necessarily bought as a Vblock. I mean, the VCE group has been a godsend a lot of times because we can make one phone call, go to one web page and everybody's engaged if there's a problem and they can help solve it. So it's been great. So that's a single SKU, single point of contact. That really works for you, does it? Yes, it does. What sort of saving does that for you as an individual or for the group? Does that impact on your people cast or on your time? It definitely cuts down the amount of time I have to spend making multiple calls to support or monitoring multiple ticket queues for different companies because there's one ticket, one number. I can go in, I can get everything set up and on the back end behind the scenes, they're making the calls and making the contact with the different engineers with V...