>> So as CTO you are setting the direction and maybe you can share some of the directions you're setting these days.
>> A large part of this direction is trying to integrate infrastructure in the software arena. So one of the key things is we are doing work with mobility and wireless. That's a very hot technology area that, as we discussed, has had a lot of promise. In the data center and server arena, one of the challenges now is to take advantage of virtualization technologies where you can have multiple servers on one physical server.
>> Just to focus a little bit on the virtualization and servers, do you have any idea of how many servers you want to get to, like if you have 10,000 or 30,000 servers, you want to get down to one third that number?
>> Oh, we have over 10,000 servers and at least with the Windows type of servers, where they're a little bit more organizational applications, probably we expect to get reductions based on industry trends at some of our experience, we ought to get 10 to one reductions on physical servers. When we move to the UNIX, the various UNIX servers that we have, I don't think that that's a realistic goal overall, because it's a larger application and make better use of the resources, but even there I would expect to get a three or five to one reduction. So I haven't totally done the math because we're just starting the journey, but I would expect that we would end up with 20 or 30 percent the number of physical servers.
>> And are you also doing storage consolidation along with that?
>> Yes. We have embarked now in the past few years on deploying storage area networks and probably the biggest step originally was getting an enterprise wide direction standard so everybody is building to that storage model. And yes, we're going into shared storage environments.
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