EMC Delivers Added Data Protection To Mission-Critical Datacentres

EMC Corporation has announced that updates to EMC VMAX enterprise storage, a new frame-based licensing model for EMC VPLEX virtual storage, making VPLEX more accessible to midrange customers, and a new version of EMC RecoverPoint that delivers powerful new integration with EMC SRDF.

Today, the world’s most mission-critical datacentres trust EMC with their most important data, with 94 percent of Fortune 50 companies, and 90 percent of the 20 largest banks relying on VMAX for >99.999 percent uptime. With new SRDF and RecoverPoint 4.0 integration, VMAX is the only tier 1 storage array offering simultaneous Continuous Data Protection (CDP) and remote copies on the same LUN. Customers can now recover every write, and at any point-in-time between copies. This means that customers can recover from operational errors as well as physical failures on the same data. Prior to this integration, customers could use SRDF and RecoverPoint on the same VMAX system, but not on the same volume. With this integration EMC marries the two business continuance technologies to simplify data protection for the world’s most mission-critical datacentres.

In addition, RecoverPoint 4.0 is now more powerful. It offers increased scale, flexibility and capacity to protect even more mission-critical applications. The new version is capable of protecting 7X more data, delivers a 4X increase in the number of protected volumes to over 8000 volumes per cluster, and offers expanded asynchronous throughput by over 60 percent to 400 MB/second.

This year, RecoverPoint will surpass 100-million run hours, protecting over 800 Petabytes of mission-critical information for EMC customers. With RecoverPoint 4.0, EMC is offering a new software-only option (called vRPA) for EMC VNX storage arrays. This software-only option enables VNX customers to deploy RecoverPoint functionality on existing infrastructure, thereby simplifying deployment and maximising their existing infrastructure, saving VNX customers up to 60 percent on their replication investment.

In addition, EMC is now offering a new VPLEX frame-based licensing model for VNX—saving customers up-to 50 percent on their VPLEX investment. With strong adoption during its three years on the market, customers trust VPLEX to achieve continuous availability of their mission-critical application environments. With the new licensing model, EMC is building upon and extending that continuous availability to a broader audience.

Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division at EMC, said, “As customers continue to transform their datacentres, EMC continues to innovate and deliver the world’s most trusted, powerful and smart storage solutions. Customers want a trusted technology partner that has both a long-term vision and the ability execute. In the last three years, EMC has delivered seven major updates and over 100 new features to the VMAX family. It’s this marriage of vision and innovation that is driving our growth—including double-digit growth across VMAX, VPLEX and RecoverPoint. Today’s news is a continuum of EMC VMAX delivering the world’s most trusted storage and data protection.”