How do you respond to people who say EMC has too many different data replication and backup products?
Slootman: We’re definitely rationalizing the relative R&D agendas that we have between Avamar and NetWorker, and between the Disk Library and Data Domain. Essentially, we have two front-end products and two back-end products, and customers are being fairly clear with us, saying ‘Hey, figure out how to make that make more sense than what it does today.’ That’s one of the reasons why I agreed to take this on, because while I was blissfully happy running Data Domain all by itself, being a part of EMC, we have to get our act together on that. We can’t keep running in four separate lanes, if you will, between all these products. Between Disk Library and Data Domain, there’s already a huge amount of substitution. So yeah, there’s work to do there. The same is true between Avamar and NetWorker. Avamar is really not a backup software product, it’s much more a replication product in the sense that it’s very much next-generation in the way that It approaches data protection. NetWorker is sort of
