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It's just a couple of hours after EMC debuted its new high-end Symmetrix DMX storage line, and CEO Joseph Tucci is sitting in the Grand Hyatt Hotel talking about one of his company's biggest unsung success stories in his straightforward New York prose.
"Literally, you can be an idiot and use this thing," Tucci says. "The marching orders around this product were to just make it simpler and simpler to use. It has some great technology that we'll take into our bigger systems over time."
Tucci isn't discussing the DMX Symmetrix product, nor is he referring to the Clariion midrange product set. He is talking about Centerra, a storage device that EMC introduced in April 2002 and, by all accounts, is taking off like a rocket. Just take a look at some of the numbers surrounding Centerra: EMC's Centerra fourth-quarter 2002 revenue increased 258 percent compared with the previous quarter. The sales force has sold more than a petabyte of Content Addressed Storage (CAS), most of it during the fourth quarter-which actually was...