 EMC World 2012, we're here live in Las Vegas. This is theCUBE. SiliconANGLE.tv's continuous coverage of EMC World. We're theCUBE, we bring you all the guests, all the information, the CEOs, the executives, the product experts, the analysts, the bloggers, the practitioners, CIOs, and we package that information and we provide it to you, our audience. And we love to extract the signal from the noise. This is again Dave Vellante. I'm joined with my co-host, David Floyer. David, welcome. Hi there. So yes, this is day two. Now we've got something special here on SiliconANGLE.tv this week. John Furrier, my normal co-host, is in California. So he was here yesterday, co-hosting the EMC World coverage with me. He has flown into the HBASE conference in San Francisco. HBASE is the database, the open source database for Hadoop. There's a lot of action going on around HBASE. Cloudera is a big player in that world as are many, many others. So theCUBE 2 is actually at the HBASE conference. So John is there, he'll be back tomorrow. So if you want to watch the HBASE coverage, go to siliconangle.tv and you'll see the HBASE CON 2012 and there's a link live on SiliconANGLE TV 2. You can click there to watch. They'll be starting later on today. But we're here live in Las Vegas covering end-to-end Walter Wall EMC World. Yesterday we heard Joe Tucci and Pat Gelsinger give keynotes. David, Joe Tucci took us through the waves, gave us a little history lesson. Now Joe Tucci's very fond of the wave analogy, but he took a little different tack this time. I mean, he's generally shown some waves in the past, but he demonstrated some deeper knowledge of industry history. Of course, Joe's been around for a while. In fact, he was going to retire last year, but he's decided to stay on. I'm sure we're going to talk about that more, but he really got deeper into the waves. I don't know what you made of that presentation. Well, it was great for me because I've been through a lot of those waves as well. So he started with the mainframes and even before then. So that was an interesting look back at history, but I think his main point was, was trying to predict what was going to happen in the cloud wave. And his key message all the way through was that there was a killer application which made each wave work. O-L-T-P in the mainframe wave. O-L-T-P X, or not Excel, but spreadsheets on the PC. In the desktop. We had talked about ERP in the client server phase. The client server environment, yes. So each of these had their particular killer application. His view of the cloud was that the killer application was real-time analytics. And I felt that he came a little short on that because I think there's something, what I call real-time inline analytics, which is what it means is that you're using that analytics to actually change the operational systems. You have a feedback loop into them. And that to me is where it's all going to end up. Big data is going to be integrated into the operational system. Isn't that what SAP HANA does? Yes, that's a good precursor and it's a great piece of software. Obviously, that particular way of doing it with battery-backed main memory, basically, is an expensive way of doing it. And there will be other more effective ways of doing that from a technology point of view. But from the fundamental process, yes, it's a good start. It's not big enough. It's not feedback enough into the main operational system. So it doesn't have those aspects, but it's a start. And there'll be many, many other starts on the road to that type of computing. Well, we also heard Pat Gelsinger talk about the Mega Launch 2, EMC's lineup of 42 products. He went through them in quite some detail. Yes, he did, yeah. And Chad Sackich was on stage with him. Chad and Pat have become quite a team. Chad is the demo meister. And as big following as we know, Chad's extremely competent individual and has a lot of good connections within the practitioner community. But generally speaking, there wasn't anything earth-shattering in the products, but it was impressive. The portfolio was impressive. I mean, it was a lot of bigger, better, faster, some new software, extending capabilities that they had announced previously. And generally, a pretty impressive, what was impressive to me is that they could coordinate everything and line it up and synchronize it. Now, again, some of it is a little bit, you know, a question of what's the when it actually ships. But generally speaking, I thought they did a good job of packaging that up. That's not a trivial task to do. No, it was impressive in the breadth of all the products. A couple of things stood out to me. I couldn't help but thinking of the skyline equivalent, that this might be the last mega tier one type array announcement. You know, it says 3000 drives, et cetera. You know, with the advent of Flash and their Project X, which from IO Xtreme, which I think it's very interesting. Extreme IO? Extreme IO, sorry. What's Project X? Project X is the Flash-only array that they say that they're going to bring out later this year. So they're filling that in. I have that feeling that those are the products which are going to be the new tier one arrays in the future. Okay, so we're going to take a break. So now Don Bacilli's in the house and I think you guys mic'd up Chuck Hollis, but Don needs to be mic'd up. So Don Bacilli's the CEO of Violin Memory and he's been gracious enough for this time. He's going to come on and we're going to talk about what's happened in Flash. I mean, we've been talking about it. Right. Violin's a company that is smoking hot and Don has a good perspective on it. So we're going to bring him on. So we're going to take a break right now. We'll be right back with Don Bacilli, CEO of Violin Memory. Keep it right here.