Sharad Mehrotra Quotes (5 Quotes)

Our intent is to take lessons that have been learned and found effective in other switched infrastructures and deploy them in IT shops. We are looking to disrupt that market by driving those systems to industry-standard components in form of processors and operating systems.

Fabric7 is showing customers that the days of having to rely on expensive, proprietary processors and operating systems are over. With these results we've proved that the Fabric7 architecture enables a level of scalability and performance on x86 platforms that easily competes with more expensive, proprietary systems that have traditionally dominated the midrange and high-end of the server market. By offering this scalability to customers at three to five times lower cost, we are dramatically shifting the economics of enterprise computing.

What we have done is taken a lot of inspiration from the mainframe, which was arguably one of the most evolved forms of computing made by man. Fabric7 has taken the overall view of the mainframe and moved it to the 21st century.

The company isn't trying to tackle the entire x86 market, where shipment volumes are high and profit margins low. We carefully exclude from our product the volume server infrastructure, ... We think there are plenty of players in that market, it's heavily commoditized and we don't know how to add value there.

It's a very consolidated market. The big vendors are vulnerable in their high-end machines, all for different reasons, so I think we're in a good position to pull this off,