@ AC , XIV sales...

Glad that you know so much about Moshe Yanai and EMC's prod roadmap, not!!. Fanstatic FUD. Infact while he was with EMC he had a cut of the sales revenue of each and every Symmetrix array, not a bad deal, seeing as EMC are the 600lbs gorilla in the external disk market. Moshe Yanai parted with EMC in 2001, then a few years later XIV came on the scene. Moshe has not penned a symm design in anger for about 10 years. The DMX is a totally different beast to the bused based arrays of Moshe's era. On the other hand I hope that IBM will back XIV and give it a fair shot at the market.