 New environment, storage wants where it was. You can do OEM deals, it holds data. But now it's the linchpin of cloud with virtualization. Talk about what that means. I mean, HP has a breadth of resources across the board, portfolio of technologies. One little ingredient like storage, where data's involved. Talk about some of the things that people are missing in the analysis, the synergies as they would say if someone's doing that, not in specific detail, but the big picture. What are people missing when they think of storage is just price X, vendor A. What does that picture look like? And can you dig deeper, Paul? Yeah, well maybe Paul, you want to start? No, I'll join you. I'll start. And Dave had asked about vision as well. So if you look at the plate tectonics, there's two big shifts on the market. One of them is the unrelenting growth, especially of unstructured data. The other plate tectonic is the acceleration server virtualization. The fault line where those two things meet is storage. And so from that angle, storage is the biggest barrier to adoption of private cloud and virtualized environments is the cost and complexity of shared storage. So at a high level what we're doing is we're making that simple, we're making that cheap, we're turning an exposure into an acceleration factor. And data playing a role in it, latency, mobile devices. Well, absolutely, and what happens is the old model was taking data and piping it through a network to make it available to applications. The new model is bring the virtualized apps to coincide with the data and run it there. It's a lot more efficient, it's a lot higher performance. It's a complete rethinking of the network. And so the disruptive enabler of that is virtualization. And I think what people are missing when you're saying is that storage is now fundamentally like a server and networking in one. Is that- That's one way to think about it. And I think by bringing these elements together with a simpler management paradigm, which we've done, makes it much more cost effective. I think one of the other things to think about is what's historically we've had network administrators, storage administrators, database administrators, server administrators. And if you look at what this new world looks like, it becomes an infrastructure administrator at some point in time, where it's a different view. And what you're doing is focusing on what are the policies, what are the use cases, how do we want to protect the data? The air traffic control. How many copies? It doesn't matter what plane they're landing, it's stuff that they're doing. Yeah, so it's very, very different. And I think some of the customers are waking up to this and saying our IT organization needs to have some additional or different skills going forward. And so it's a different- Paul, you mentioned exposure. An exposure becomes an accelerant in the new model. Absolutely. Which is really great. Talk about security then. I mean, because I see security has been one of the other points of barriers, adoption issues with cloud. Any comments? How is that going to be- Well, security is important. And HP touches security in many different ways, shapes and forms. We have a very broad security set of capabilities. I think our tipping point software, for example, that we picked up with the 3Com acquisition is one of the leading network intrusion softwares. So that's a great example of taking security seriously. It is important. And every customer cares about it, particularly in the financial services world, they care a lot about it. But everyone cares about it. Can you talk about your multi-vendor? Because you guys play in all the environments. I mean, HP's the 800-pound gorilla with your EDS force out there. And just the portfolio is just massive and impressive. You know, you got to deal with open source, you got to deal with existing legacy. What's the general philosophy at HP around that? I mean, the open source with Hadoop on the data side, and you got mobility now, and you guys have that product there. Yeah, well, I think if I understand your question, I think one of our fundamental building blocks is an open standard-based architecture so that people are not locked into a particular answer, a particular vendor, so that the legacy in our mind needs to work with the new. And so you can't tell a customer, okay, you know, all that stuff you bought over the last five years, throw it away, so you can use the new stuff. And because number one, they can't afford it. And virtualization plays there. You can do things. Absolutely, so let's virtualize it, bring it into the new world. And over time, you transition from the old to the new. And that's our view of it, but it has to be based on open standards. You can't, well, you can, but the customers usually don't accept it. And that's one of the questions we get as HP, as G. You know, we can buy everything from you, but does that place us at risk? My answer is absolutely not, because we're based on open standards. You can replace any piece you want along the way. You can't put a Dell blade in an HP blade chassis, but you can certainly connect other storage to our servers or our servers to other storage. There's no inability to do that. So you guys had the pro-curve division, you got 3Com in there, the storage is changing, you guys got some innovation coming out, hopefully it gets out, you know, and the new deals coming down. How has that converged organization going? What's the feeling there? People energized, and now that HP's got a path ahead of them. Well, I can just talk about my part of the organization, but certainly the engineers are more excited than they've been in a long time. We're investing in R&D, we're actually spending more than we were before, which is, if you're an engineer, what do you want? More money for your projects. And at the same time, we've introduced, I think, strong accountability. It's one thing to have more money, but if you don't produce better products with it, then you really haven't accomplished anything. I think Dave Donatelli has brought us a great combination as a leader of, okay, here's some more money, but here's what I'm going to hold you accountable for in delivering to the market with that money. Very clear accountability, and yet we're investing more, which to me, as an engineer, as an engineering team, that's what you want. That's exciting. Dave, you want any final comments? No, just like this quick summary, I mean, we're seeing, I said, the transformation of HP's storage works business focused on taking commodity components and adding value through software, giving your systems the different personalities. We're seeing innovation out of HP labs with store ones. We're seeing you bring together a lot of pieces in the portfolio, driving your value chain hard, and it's going to be really interesting to watch. Paul Perez and Dave Robison, thanks very much for coming on theCUBE. Appreciate that. Thanks Dave, thanks John. We'll be right back with SiliconANGLE.com, SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of VMworld 2010 with theCUBE, where we're broadcasting live at the Moscone.