Bangkok--Aug 10--PC & Associates Consulting
EMC ANNOUNCES THE WORLD’S LARGEST, FASTEST AND MOST SCALABLE HIGH-END STORAGE SYSTEM;
EXPANDS CONSULTING SERVICES TO MEET INCREASED DEMAND FOR ILM SERVICES
EMC Corporation today announced the largest, fastest and most scalable high-end storage array in the world, capable of providing leading functionality while scaling to one petabyte (1,024 terabytes) of capacity. The new Symmetrix DMX-3 system represents another industry milestone for EMC and leverages its market-leading Direct Matrix Architecture to provide demanding customers with unparalleled functionality, performance and tiered storage capabilities in a single system to support their information lifecycle management (ILM) strategies.
EMC Corporation today also announced an extension of its consulting service offerings and capabilities in its established, growing professional services portfolio to meet increasing worldwide customer demand for ILM. The full range of EMC’s consulting capabilities are now being brought together and delivered under the new brand of EMC Consulting.
The New Symmetrix DMX-3 - Extending High-End Innovation and Leadership
The Symmetrix DMX-3 system builds on the success of the existing Symmetrix DMX-2 Series by storing more data and delivering higher performance for customers who want to consolidate their information onto a high-end platform. The Symmetrix DMX-3 exceeds the capabilities of existing systems through a design that features increased processing power and internal bandwidth, new memory technology and support for lower cost disk drives. The Symmetrix DMX-3 system will enable customers to replace multiple existing storage platforms with a single system and pay-as-you-grow economics. The new storage array supports up to 960 disk drives today, and will be qualified to support up to 1,920 disk drives in the first half of 2006 and more than 2,000 by the end of next year.
“The new EMC Symmetrix DMX family delivers on the scalable design promise of the DMX architecture,” said Tatchapol Poshyanonda, Country Manager, EMC Thailand. “Our competition has not been able to match Symmetrix DMX-2’s unique combination of scalable performance and functionality, and we are again raising the bar. We introduced innovative new high-end software functionality last year and this new system can take advantage of all of our leading capabilities. This reduces costs for our customers in terms of hardware and software acquisition and maintenance and reduces operational and management expenses. We’re allowing customers to do more with less hardware, greatly enhancing total cost of ownership.”
The Symmetrix DMX-3 system was specifically designed with the performance, scalability and reliability required to support high-end configurations in a single array. The extensible DMX architecture provides the Symmetrix DMX-3 with near linear performance scalability as channel directors, memory directors and disk directors are added to the system. With a doubling of internal bandwidth, processing power and the addition of fully mirrored global memory directors based on DDR (Dual Data Rate) SDRAM memory technologies, the Symmetrix DMX-3 is the industry’s highest-performing storage array in addition to being the largest.
The new Symmetrix DMX-3 array is composed of a single system bay and separate storage bays. Each bay is powered independently and contains a scalable power and battery backup infrastructure to support the components within each bay. System capacity can be upgraded non-disruptively by adding either another storage bay or adding additional disk drives into available space. Likewise, additional processing power can be added by installing additional director boards while the system is online. The Symmetrix DMX-3 is compatible with all of EMC’s leading high-end functionality and software.
The entire Symmetrix DMX Series, including the new Symmetrix DMX-3 system, will support new low-cost Fibre Channel (LC-FC) disk drives. This latest disk drive technology, expected to be available in early 2006, will enable “in-the-box” tiered storage, allowing multiple tiers of storage to be implemented in a single Symmetrix DMX system as part of an ILM strategy.
EMC Expands Consulting Services
EMC Consulting services leverage the experience of thousands of EMC’s technology and service professionals, as well as experience generated through its extensive partner relationships. EMC Consulting has enhanced its services portfolio with new consulting offerings and capabilities. The EMC service offerings now go further to help customers realize the benefits of an ILM strategy: They embody EMC’s unique expertise, focus and best practices that enable effective data movement, storage asset utilization and risk mitigation. EMC has developed enhanced offerings and capabilities in (more information of each capability provided in fact sheet as attached):
- EMC Classification and Policy Services, fundamental to ILM and compliance requirements, these services help customers move data efficiently to various tiers of storage as service requirements for specific information change over the information’s lifecycle.
- EMC Architecture and Consolidation Services now include EMC’s best-practice planning methodology to help customers align their architectures with business requirements.
- EMC Storage Management Optimization Services now include the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) helps customers analyze the state of their storage management operations; identify improvements to be made; and integrate people, policies and processes to optimize the information infrastructure.
- EMC Information Protection Services now provide comprehensive strategies, processes and plans to meet business continuity objectives including disaster recovery. In addition, EMC has added backup, recovery and archive strategy assessments to help customers mitigate risk to their business.
Tatchapol Poshyanonda, Country Manager, EMC Thailand said, “This continued expansion of our consulting services and unique capabilities reinforces our commitment to help customers derive the most value from their information and storage investments and positions us for accelerated growth in the ILM services market. We have built and expanded a highly specialized and focused consulting team whose on-the-ground presence will ensure that organizations worldwide have the right technology and processes in place to achieve new levels of business agility, optimize technology and improve the value of their information.”
EMC provides a full range of information consulting services and works with industry-leading partners to help customers plan, design and implement actionable strategies to transform their information infrastructure into a strategic business asset. EMC can scale and tailor these modular services to address individual projects or comprehensive customer challenges and help to extend the breadth and depth of IT capability with a focus on knowledge transfer to the customer. EMC Consulting aligns the resources of several existing EMC lines of business including Information Solutions Consulting, Global Solutions and products and technologies. As part of the EMC Technology Solutions group, with more than 4,000 professionals globally, EMC Consulting brings a unique mix of information management and storage experience combined with strategic business focus to deliver expert services.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.thailand.EMC.com.
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Maythavee Chalermtanasak
PC & Associates Consulting Co., Ltd.
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Khoo Yin
Senior Marcom Specialist
EMC South Asia
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