It came sooner than we thought. Five minutes later, Douglas Fierro, manager of product marketing, talks about the Symmetrix boxes. To the corporate offices of CVS, a chain of drug stores which uses an awful lot of Pyramid kit and a heap of EMC storage fridges. The staffer from The Register is listening to how CVS has set up its IT operation after a series of takeovers, while being blasted from a fan in the back of the very ugly looking HP V machine. We don't assimilate other companies technology.
Resistance is futile.
We remark that the HP V machine blows quite a gale out of the back. The IT man says yeah, lifts up the corner of the top of the new machine, and says that while there s great performance in the box, he found it a little surprising that HP had just glued the top on. You'd have thought they could have finished it a little better. Later, travelling in the Lincoln 98 limo EMC shuttled the hacks round in, Frank, the limo driver, tries a joke. The police are looking for two hardened criminals.