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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Dear GPFS User Group members.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">No one wants the GPFS user group to turn into a sales marketing list, so this will be the one and only email on this subject from me in 2012.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I was at the user group meeting in
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Warwick</st1:place></st1:City> when every speaker seemed to mention solid state storage as a requirement for GPFS metadata and I met a number of people interested in using our systems for metadata at MEW.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">I am trying to create an Academic and Research offering in the
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region></st1:place>, which would allow for academic and government research institutions to purchase a pair of RamSan systems specifically for metadata, at a special price.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">(FYI - Currently a pair of 2TB systems each providing perhaps 250,000 IOPS would be close to £108,000. I would hope to be able to offer this solution for something
below £50k, if there is enough interest from the community. )<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">TMS normally does not discount at all, so I need your declaration of interest to create a large enough community to initiate an exception.
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font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">This email is therefore trying to gauge how much interest there is in having a special offering for this metadata solution.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">May I ask that you send me a personal email at the address below, if you would be interested (no commitment) in such an offering.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Thank you.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Arial">Kind regards</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><font size="3" face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial">David Lawrence</span></font></st1:PersonName><o:p></o:p></p>
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font-family:Arial">UK</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><u style="text-decoration:none"><span class="msoIns"><ins cite="mailto:dcl" datetime="2012-02-02T12:11"></ns0:place></ins></span></u></ns0:country-region></span></font><font face="Arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Arial">
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