EMC has actually been reselling the Storigen software as the Centera Application Gateway, priced starting at $15,000 (not including server hardware), for about the past the six months. The software caches metadata about the content stored in Centera, and Storigen claims it's able to handle up 100 million objects per gateway.
However, there's a certain amount of functionality customers lose if they're using the Storigen gateway. It does not currently support the full regulatory-compliance features in Centera, such as information shredding and the ability to enforce retention period (see EMC Makes Centera Compliant). The gateway also doesn't support Centera's content-authentication features.
EMC spokesman AJ Ragosta says between 5 percent and 7 percent of the company's Centera customers would have a need for such a gateway. EMC sees the Centera Application Gateway primarily as an offering for customers that haven't upgraded to the Centera-enabled applications. "If it's a long-time Documentum Inc. customer that may want to upgrade on the next rev, they would use this in the interim," he says.
Dennis Hoffman, president and CEO of Storigen, sees an even bigger opportunity to tap the hundreds of applications that will never be rejiggered for Centera. "There are 60 partners writing to Centera, but they know that not everyone will write to the API," he says. He adds that main areas in which Storigen's gateway has found traction have been medical imaging, document archiving, and scanned-image archiving.
EMC picked Storigen over other vendors that have developed file-translation gateways for Centera, including Legato Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: LGTO) and FileTek Corp. Under the agreement, EMC also has the option to resell Storigens entire product line, including its Distributed Storage Network (DSN) file-caching appliances.
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