Mario Apicella and Scott Tyler Shafer

There is nothing like writing a weekly column such as this to really understand the meaning of "you can't please them all." It's not that we dislike disagreements; indeed, your two faithful authors sometimes hold different points of view, which we manage to amicably reconcile in our writing without bloodshed.

We love jokes around here. Especially the ones that begin with "knock, knock." But first let's talk about Brocade Communications Systems Inc.

As we write this, word is in that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has officially approved the iSCSI specification as a "proposed standard." And already the standard has its first big-name supporter.