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Was Centera a strategic strike at Network Appliances pricing model, among other things?

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Was Centera a strategic strike at Network Appliances pricing model, among other things?

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Lewis: No, actually not. Centera is priced like a very low-end SAN, at two-and-a-half cents per megabyte. So it’ll carve a little out of our own SAN space. It’ll carve an appreciable amount, we believe, out of tape. It’ll also carve some out of paper documents that are kept simply because people want records that they couldn’t be assured of digitally until now. We believe it’s going to create a new market, pulling from four or five different categories. There will be a lot of discussion about what is the right way to store these files, and there’s probably a lot stored on Net App appliances these days that really should be considered protected, fixed-content information. We do expect that there’ll be a certain amount that can be better served, not only from the standpoint of Centera guaranteeing the content. [Centera] does incredible compression, say, when you have an e-mail archive or other things where you have a core group of users that all send the same presentations and attachment

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