We got a lot of extra functionality besides just more ports. I want the flexibility to drop in HP [Hewlett-Packard Co.] or IBM and manage it from a single pane. We're still struggling as customers with being locked in.

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We were running out of ports at the core and completely out of ports at the edge, we had tape storage hanging off directors and no way to scale, it wasn't a true core/edge philosophy.

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Every host was writing across both [old and new] fabrics until we were certain everything was OK.

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We've always tried to take a look around the corner. If we are going to spend this money, is there any possibility to do something different or to better improve the infrastructure tomorrow, even if we can't leverage it today?

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