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EMC's Centera Upgrade Deconstructed: Page 3 of 4

Apparently not. EMC says the feature in question lets you take a look at what's going on when you're replicating from one Centera to another. Oh, and of course, it makes it all faster.

The pricing of Centera (starting at $77,000) remains the same. And the hardware still comprises 500- or 750-Gbyte drives. In short, a little improvement here, a little there. This is the software upgrade meant to accompany the hardware improvement introduced with the Centera Generation 4 LP (low power) model last July.

Doggone! I've been expecting that unified Recovery Management Console, or its follow-on Intelligent Information Console, to take shape in an existing EMC product for months now. EMC has indicatd it will surface within two years, after all.

An EMC spokesman says that's still the plan. But it doesn't seem to have anything to do with Centera.

We'll keep watching, though.