Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Your first question comes from Brian Freed - Morgan Keegan.
Brian Freed - Morgan Keegan
First question, on your new product can you talk a little bit about how it differentiates from both your prior products as well as the competing data domain products and specifically how you make use of SSD and those products?
Richard Belluzzo
Well, I’ll start and I’ll have my partners here jump in as necessary. So, we had a mid range product offering that was first launched with the original DXi. We learned an awful lot in that process.
When we reentered the market with this 6500 line we were really focused on this notion of simplicity, and we wanted to take our latest software and we wanted to take a new hardware family, we wanted to put those together, we wanted to package them in a way that allows people to implement these solutions, to sell support, et cetera, very easily, and really worked to align all the software hardware features to make that happen.
Additionally, we recognized that this is a new platform. So we made a number of decisions around hardware that make this platform very extensible over time. Those include the latest Intel processors and SSDs, which frankly as we advance our software will give us more performance capability over time.
So we really focused on the immediate opportunity in the mid-range with the NAS segment of the market and we also introduced a product that over time are our software will further take advantage of some of the advanced hardware features to be able to tell customers that not only you are buying a simplified good value solution, but there is also a growth path that a software improves you will be able to have this to be an enduring platform in terms of performance.
Brian Freed - Morgan Keegan
Secondly, as you look at, I know you mentioned that you expected immediate contribution. As you kind of look at product cycles in terms of the valuation adoption, typically the enterprise where you have had the bulk of your tractions seems to be fairly long product email cycles. What are you seeing in terms of the new 6500, do you think it will have a little bit shorter go-to-market cycle than say the historic DXi7500 products?
William Britts
Brian, this is Bill. The whole process of how we sell it and really focusing on the channel and being able to bring some of these characteristics as we’ve kind of looked at the product portfolio, are really important in the mid-range, ease of use, simply to deploy, easy for the channels to be able to quote to be able to have the user install these systems.
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