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Coraid And Arista Partner On High-Performance Ethernet SAN: Page 2 of 2

The companies do not have a time line for future product integration and are still in an investigative phase, Wright says. He did not want to go into too many details, but says the products would involve the network becoming the storage and that users would be able to rapidly provision both network and storage.

No money has changed hands as part of the partnership, Gourlay says. Coraid's 1,300 users and Arista's 700 to 750 users helped encourage the two companies to work together, Wright says.

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