He had a real spirit for growth. He was good at bringing in new ideas and making sure we had the right people and structure to execute.

We are excited about selling more storage products with Sun. We hope that can be a reality in the near future. We have been demonstrating to them that as a storage-only practice, we can help them.

We see good spend there. We've explored the technology trends and the vertical markets trends to see where it makes sense for us to play, and this is one of the places where we see a growth opportunity.

But it's also a bottomless pit for story ideas.

Gene's ideas included all I had jotted down. Our minds were completely in synch.

I have always been career oriented, with an entrepreneurial spirit burning inside of me. I have big ideas. You have to believe big, think big, for big things to happen. I think a lot of people have aspirations, but execution is the key. We execute.