Symantec is very strong in security, data protection, and a small bit of management and automation, but it lacks a significant number of capabilities Dell needs to enable truly convergedinfrastructure and cloud automation.
When asked about his opinion on VBlock (Cisco, VMware, EMC combined initiative), Stevens said he sees tremendous value in it but historically all vertically integrated stacks have failed and therefore Brocade is taking an open approach to the convergedinfrastructure idea.
We talked about cloud computing and his vision for a hybrid model, the role that convergedinfrastructure and automation from the compute resources all the way to VM provisioning, Steve agreed that is what would ultimately be needed to enable private cloud.