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To: Gus who wrote (14683)	10/17/2002 7:15:28 PM
From: Gus	Respond to of 17183

Here's an interesting post about Centera being used in an ASP format. It appears that EMC has approved the efforts of some FilePool folks to revive its online service using Centera technology while EMC ramps up sales of the intranet version to the corporate market. [disclaimer: the undersigned was a co-founder of FilePool, the company acquired by EMC that developed the Centera basics, and as such may be contagiously enthusiastic about its potential ] EMC at the same time was very brave and very right postulating a new category for this type of storage. They were the first to recognize that there will be soundness boundaries to the concept of presenting enterprise storage to CPU’s and networks as so many virtual disks or folders. [ ... even though this was an understandable paradigm: when new technology needs to be hooked up to existing architectures, it always starts with emulating existing stuff: remember that for the longest time PCs used to be hooked up to mainframes either as punch card readers (!) or as dumb terminals. ] Centera is a different animal – it doesn’t behave like a big disk in the sky. It works through an API so you need to adapt your programs to use it. Which is a good thing, because those programs will be much simpler, much more powerful and much more robust if you do it properly. And they’ll do the job for a lot less money, in those cases where a functional alternative is even conceivable. HyperTrust, our company, is a first mover in making the power of Centera available in an ASP format. We are in the process of launching Send2 Services, an entire suite of scalable storage services on the Internet. The first of this series, Send2Store, is available in an exceptionally simple free demo format which allows anyone to start appreciating the power of Centera, as well as the attractiveness of using it as an outsourced service. All of that in just a few minutes. Just look at trustclip.com and make up your own mind. We’ll be delighted to talk to you. Paul Carpentier - Partner HyperTrust - Your Content in Action paul.carpentier@hypertrust.com send2store.com byteandswitch.com