 "EMC Announces New Storage Solutions")
EMC Corporation, the infrastructure solutions provider, has announced a number of new systems and capabilities designed to make storage simpler for businesses and organisations of all sizes to harness and exploit the massive amounts of information they generate each day.
EMC has introduced multiple new storage systems and software features– more than 40 new technologies and products in all, including new arrays for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), new unified systems for the midrange, new software for its high-end systems and new disk-based backup and recovery and archiving systems.
The new unified storage array is EMC VNXe storage system, which is designed specifically for SMEs and offered through EMC partners. The VNXe can be easily configured to support virtual servers and hundreds of email users. It offers advanced storage technologies with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface for set-up, management and serviceability.
The new EMC VNX family of unified storage systems converge EMC’s CLARiiON storage area network (SAN) systems and Celerra network attached storage (NAS) systems into a single, easily managed and powerful family of unified storage arrays that are simpler, more efficient and faster and have the full suite of functionality of its predecessors.
Another addition is EMC Symmetrix VMAX software technologies that make it the most powerful, trusted and smartest storage array in the world and capable of supporting petabytes of information and up to 5 million virtual machines. Among the multiple new features are an advanced version of FAST (fully automated storage tiering) software that automatically optimises the array based on data usage; new server virtualisation, security and federation capabilities; and new operating software that doubles system performance with no hardware upgrade required.
New Data Domain backup and archiving capabilities including new systems provide the fast backups and new Data Domain Archiver systems, the de-duplication system designed exclusively for long-term disk-based retention of backups.
“This is the most significant midrange announcement in EMC’s 30-year history. It is a critical piece of EMC’s strategy of architecting our storage solutions to be optimised for virtualised environments,” said Rich Napolitano, President, Unified Storage Division, EMC. “The VNX family sets the stage for all of our future products in EMC’s midrange portfolio. For storage specialists, we’ve converged the best attributes of the market leading SAN (with EMC CLARiiON) and NAS (with EMC Celerra) storage systems into one powerful new platform—armed with the industry’s most advanced automated tiering software to exploit the benefits of SSDs. For IT generalists, EMC brings tremendous simplicity and enterprise-class storage to SMEs—affordably.”
“Symmetrix VMAX was purpose built for the virtual data center and supports some of the largest data centers in the world. We have about 1,000 customers in our Petabyte Club now and within the next ten years, we’ll have 100,000. That data growth is being driven by trends like mission-critical virtual applications, private clouds and Big Data applications. To manage and secure that information, organisations will need a storage infrastructure that is both powerful and smart. With this announcement, we’ve taken the smartest high-end storage system and made it even smarter and we’ve taken the fastest system and made it faster,” said Brian Gallagher, President, EMC Symmetrix and Virtualisation Product Group.