EMC Launches FAST Technology

EMC Corporation has outlined its fully automated storage tiering (FAST) vision and announced delivery of its first technology to revolutionise the way storage is managed. EMC is delivering automation capabilities across all primary EMC storage platforms to help resource-constrained IT organisations manage strong double-digit annual information growth.

EMC’s FAST technology will serve as the foundation for integrating all of its leading storage efficiency and automation capabilities. EMC’s vision for FAST is to combine capabilities including sub-LUN tiering, capacity allocation on demand, block and file level de-duplication, data compression, disk drive spin down, built-in archiving, and private and public cloud federation to provide unprecedented levels of automation, management, and cost efficiencies.

The first phase of EMC FAST technology is available immediately for new and existing EMC Symmetrix V-Max and EMC CLARiiON CX4 networked storage systems, and EMC Celerra NS unified storage systems.

Pat Gelsinger, EMC President and Chief Operating Officer, Information Infrastructure Products said, “Over the past two years, EMC has optimised all of its major storage architectures to support new levels of automation required in virtual data center environments and for the transition to private clouds. These dynamic and agile environments require the capabilities that EMC’s FAST technology provides for effective management and scaling. This is an area of significant investment for EMC and we are the only one offering this technology across high-end, mid-tier and unified platforms.”