So rather than advertise, they turned their small but loyal customer base into salespeople, giving away 250 megabytes of free storage in exchange for a referral.

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Google is charging down the same path: it offers music sync, photo sync, Exchange-like sync, cloud storage, remote device back-up and updates.

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So in 1994 Pacific Andes listed on the Hong Kong Exchange, and in 1996 an arm handling storage, distribution and trade had an offering in Singapore.

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The FlashArray has reduced our data between 50 to 90% on a variety of workloads, ranging from VMware (VMW) virtual machines to Microsoft (MSFT) Exchange and SQL, as well as reduced our physical storage footprint far beyond our expectations.

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