Dave Hitz, NetApp's articulate co-founder turned marketing guy, put up this slide at the analyst meeting in NYC last week. It depicts a vertical slice of a traditional approach to architecting infrastructure where resources (servers, networks, storage, etc) are stovepiped and optimized for applications (largely by application heads). This is a common scene in enterprises where companies mix, match, and manage a sea of heterogeneous storage assets designed to optimize business applications.