MARCH 2018CIOAPPLICATIONS.COM 19deriving personal meaning from lasting customer value. Moreover, we have a strong sense of mission when the security of our customers is at stake.How is all that reflected in the product? Walk us through your feature set. Global data deduplication drives the Alike product. We have the fastest and most efficient software block storage platform, and we do it with a 512KB block size, which is more precise than our competitors. This enables us to offer incredible storage savings on both backups and offsite DR storage, both LAN and cloud. Customers report that they have greatly reduced infrastructure investment and cloud storage costs. We also power our network-efficient VM replication engine using the same technology.Switching gears, can you let us in on Quadric's roadmap for 2018?I want to thank Quadric's existing customers for all our success together in 2017. We are fortunate to work with such innovative and collaborative customers. Our users are excited about the all-new A2 product that's in beta now. The A2 is a 100-percent virtual appliance with no Windows installer footprint. It's very versatile and low-friction, and our users keep suggesting ways to make the A2 faster and better. My mission is to bring more folks considering investing in our solution to get on board with this process. What would be your piece of advice to the budding entrepreneur, especially one looking at the BDR space?If you have an innovative technology, be open to all potential applications. When Quadric Software was in the garage stage, we knew that we had something special in the storage space, but we stayed open as to how to bring it to market. In today's competitive climate, it is difficult to get software installed at the local IT level, and you will need partners to get potential customers aware, engaged, and ultimately willing to put you in play. We have the fastest and most efficient software block storage platform, and we do it with a 512KB block size, which is more precise than our competitors
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