W. Curtis Preston interviews Lee Caswell, Chief Strategy Officer of Pivot3, at VMWorld 2012 in San Francisco. They talk about Pivot3's converged offering that runs both storage and servers in the same appliance. They discuss how Pivot3 focuses on being a scale-out storage appliance first, providing high availability, very high scalability and then they run virtual desktops or applications. They've created a mulit-ported, iSCSI target across all of the resources in each of the appliances.

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• W. Curtis Preston
• Pivot3
• Lee Caswell
• VMWorld 2012