 This is Stu Miniman with wikibon.org at the IBM Edge Conference in Las Vegas. Grabbing some interviews from some of the people at the conference and we've brought to this interview Ian Shave who's with IBM and based in Shanghai, China. Ian thanks for joining us for the interview. Thank you very much for asking me. Great so you handle IBM's OEM storage solutions could you explain to us what that means? Yeah so it's the the products that we actually buy in for example from NetApp and obviously we rebrand them, we add our value around them and then bring them to market for our customers and build the right solutions around them. Great so it's timely that we ran into you because NetApp had an announcement today about clustered on tap 8.2 could you tell us really IBM's you know involvement with clustered on tap and what you've seen for customers adopting in the field? Sure so IBM has been obviously working very closely with NetApp on this for quite some time. We actually started making that available to our clients back in January of this year and we've been doing that through kind of control rollout process and being sort of slowly adapting it and deploying it across the globe you know gradually and we obviously as you say they've just announced plus they don't have 8.2 we will actually be making that available as well by the end of June and then making ours kind of officially IBM general availability at the end of this year and so at the moment they say we're doing true control rollout but yeah we're seeing a lot of customer interest in that and they're really seeing the value in being able to exploit much more out of their infrastructure by clustering it together. Okay could you give us a little bit more drill down on kind of the just the IBM NetApp relationship you know NetApp's gone through a few bumps in the road recently and sometimes the market's frowning on them you know how do you speak to that relationship? So the relationship is still very strong and people have been asking me you know how was it going and I guess as a demonstration of certainly the commitment from IBM in that relationship we are we've been increasing the resource in terms of our development around their product. We're increasing these solutions that we're bringing to market based on that product as well and understanding better how we can leverage the values to our clients using that sort of base infrastructure so it's continuing to build. Okay not to put you on the spot too much but when we look at kind of scale-out architectures I mean IBM has a sonar solution. Sure. How do you see kind of clustered on-tap versus some of some of the other architectures out there? Well I guess it's you know just ensuring we can have the you know we like to have options so rather than just saying there is only a one-size-fits-all you know we have two different options and obviously particularly with the NetApp plus the data on-tap that can appeal to our existing in-store down series customers and to new customers that perhaps want to start at a very small scale and sort of grow it from there whereas our sonar architecture is designed more for larger environments. Great. Alright any final comments you want to leave us with on the kind of IBM's OEM storage solutions? Well so just really keep you know an eye out for the solutions that we're going to continue to bring. We've recently been talking about an economic N-Series solutions where we can help reduce you know the customers capex spend by about 40% so we're looking at how we can really leverage the value of our N-Series but with increased value to our IBM clients and you'll see an awful lot more of those coming including solutions around open snack as well like with Hadoop and things like that so there's an awful lot more coming from IBM around this. Alright thank you Ian for joining us. Thank you. Appreciate you taking the time. Thank you. Alright and this is Stu Miniman with Wikibon here with Silicon Angles live continuous coverage from IBM Manage in Las Vegas.