 Winston Edmondson here with Studio B here at IBM EDGE 2013 and I'm with Barry White Seriously, it's Barry White. Barry, how are you doing? That's so bad. Good. Thanks So you're here to give us an update on a couple major things to SVC and store-wise. Yeah What's going on in those worlds? So, I mean as you know SVC and store-wise has been around for the last 10 years or so SVC has been around More recently obviously adding in the store-wise family based on the same the same hardware And today we've just been announcing the latest version 7.1 Software which adds for some of the entry-edition very 3700 products adds in things like sess Direct storage attached allowing hosts to be connected directly into the server without the need for a fiber channel fabric There's also a special turbo model Of the 3700 which in some cases more than doubles the performance of the box by adding a software license Interesting walk us through some scenarios. What you know? What are the customers that are really going to be able to take advantage of this? Yeah, so I mean the the whole point of the the SVC and store-wise family is storage virtualization So this is really making better use of what you've already got So most customers already have one or more story systems in their environment and having the the store-wise family there With the virtualization capability means they can connect in their existing storage behind the product The store-wise product and actually still carry on making use of of that storage in itself Getting all the advanced features and functions that are built in to the store-wise family and applying them to an older storage controller Interesting. What now do you see this as a progression where they are moving towards? Something else entirely and this is this is kind of a good hybrid or in between state So it's definitely a progression I mean that there's a lot of things have been going on about software-defined storage recently And I mean SVC I mean I'm Bush was saying this morning in the main session that SVC was software-defined storage version one Ten years ago more than ten years ago when we first developed it. We realized software was the future So it's definitely heading in that direction. Obviously you still need the disks and you still need the hardware there but looking at extracting out and making it more of a platform that people can use to Implement their storage infrastructures great tell us about where do you see things going just kind of described to me some projections that That you might that you you want to project my project projection. Obviously flash systems flashes is a key technology that this really changing the game and it's making us have to think about the architecture of these systems and the architecture of the whole infrastructure itself Traditionally disk rise have always been the limiting factor So you could have more and more compute power you could have faster and faster compute But you still had the problem that the disks were going to take 10 15 milliseconds to respond So with flash systems getting down into the microsecond range We can make huge advances in using less compute power to do the same work Obviously less footprint is the overall savings again as we were discussing this morning in some of the sessions So I think flash is definitely it's here. It's maybe not going to stay in the in the sense of NAND There might be something better that comes along, but is a solid-state technology So it's making getting all of our software not just the storage systems themselves But also the actual application levels getting them to the point that their program to get used to that Microsecond technology, that's the real game changer very exciting now. I'm told that IBM Edge 2013 is I think twice the attendance and just kind of the the energy from last year Give me your impressions of this year's IBM Edge. It's amazing. I mean, I haven't stopped We're only a lunch time on day one I literally have not stopped and the rest of the week is going to be the same So it's great to see so many people here so many customers and business partners And I hope they all get as much out of it as we've been getting fantastic. Just last question Very why can you sing? No Very appreciate it right Winston Edmonton here studio be signing out