Bangkok--Aug 23--PC & Associates Consulting
New UltraPointTM Configurations, Virtual LUN Technology and Software Features Strengthen Industry’s #1 Midrange Offering
EMC Corporation today announced major improvements to its award-winning EMC? CLARiiON? family of networked storage systems and software, including new UltraPoint? Technology that provides customers with greater availability and reliability as their environments scale and grow more sophisticated. EMC also expanded the functionality of its CLARiiON software to help customers more effectively manage and protect their information throughout its lifecycle. These improvements build upon CLARiiON’s already unmatched levels of availability, reliability and data integrity.
The new CLARiiON CX300-s, CX500-s, and CX700-s models are based on new UltraPoint hardware and software technology that combines point-to-point connectivity to individual disk drives with advanced diagnostic capabilities — resulting in the highest levels of reliability and availability. Unique new Virtual LUN Technology enables CLARiiON customers to move data seamlessly within a CLARiiON system to improve performance and capacity utilization. New DC power capabilities for the NEBS Level 3 and ETSI certified CLARiiON CX Series brings leading storage capabilities to customers in mobile and remote environments. EMC today also announced four new models of its leading CLARiiON Disk Library (see separate news release).
New UltraPoint Technology Extends EMC CLARiiON Availability and Reliability As customers scale their CLARiiON environments by implementing higher-capacity disk drives, the EMC-developed UltraPoint Technology provides them with the highest levels of reliability and availability. Using new point-to-point disk array enclosures and new drive-level fault detection, isolation and diagnosis capabilities in the CLARiiON FLARE? operating system, UltraPoint allows midrange customers to scale their environments more effectively with leading availability and reliability features. UltraPoint Technology is backwards-compatible with previous versions of the CLARiiON CX Series, providing customers with unmatched investment protection.
“EMC’s CLARiiON family has been a bellwether for high performance, modularity, high availability and robustness since its inception many years ago,” said Arun Taneja, founder of Taneja Group, a technology analyst firm. “As seen in today’s announcement, it continues to lend itself to functional and capacity enhancements that reveal its architectural strength. This is what makes it one of the strongest players in the midrange market.”
New Virtual LUN Technology Provides Unique Data Mobility Capabilities Within CLARiiON
EMC’s new CLARiiON Virtual LUN Technology provides seamless movement of data within a CLARiiON CX Series system. Virtual LUN Technology enables CLARiiON customers to move data volumes within their system without affecting the application. This unique capability allows customers to improve performance and capacity utilization by moving data to Fibre Channel or ATA-based disks within the array.
Astolfo Rueda, Network Administrator for Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, one of the premier full-service law firms in the U.S. with more than 400 attorneys in 11 locations, and a Virtual LUN Technology beta site, said, “Our experience with EMC CLARiiON’s Virtual LUN Technology has been extremely positive. It’s critical that all of the information stored in our CLARiiON systems is available 24/7. CLARiiON’s Virtual LUN Technology will allow us to easily move data on a real-time basis, within a single CX array, while maintaining our service levels for application availability. We will be able to further implement tiered storage within the array by moving LUNs nondisruptively as the value of our data changes over time.”
EMC Delivers Benefits of Automated Networked Storage to Mobile and Remote Environments A new capability of the CLARiiON CX300, CX500 and CX700 Fibre Channel systems is built-in support for DC power. The Network Equipment Building System (NEBS) Level-3 and European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) EN 300 386 compliant CLARiiON systems will deliver the benefits of automated networked storage to all customers, especially those in mobile and remote environments often found in government installations and in the telecommunications and oil and gas industries.
Enhanced Software Functionality Improves Management and Protection
EMC has expanded the midrange storage markets most advanced software capabilities to help customers more effectively manage, share and protect their information, including:
New EMC SnapView and EMC MirrorView/S capabilities for business continuity. These two leading replication products now support twice as many LUNs. Both SnapView and MirrorView/S also now support (1) consistency features to maintain data coherency across multiple volumes during point-in-time, and (2) remote copies to preserve a point-in-time copy of data for local backup and recovery and remote disaster recovery requirements.
SAN Copy/E for improved data mobility between CLARiiON AX100 and larger CX Series storage systems. The new software streamlines the movement of data from edge locations such as branch offices to a core location, such as a central data center for backup, recovery and reporting purposes.
EMC Navisphere? Manager support for the CLARiiON AX100 for centrally managing both AX100 systems and CX Series systems from a single, easy-to-use web-based management console.
“CLARiiON is a proven system that distinguishes itself from other offerings through its highly available and reliable architecture. Every member of the CLARiiON family provides the necessary software, hardware and data protection capabilities for IT centers to scale and manage more complex, high-growth environments with less risk,” said Dr. Tatchapol Poshyanonda, Country Manager, EMC Information Systems (Thailand) Ltd. “Over the last 18 months, EMC led storage innovation in the midrange market by introducing the CX300, CX500 and CX700, the first CLARiiON Disk Libraries, the low-cost AX100, native iSCSI for CLARiiON and SMI-S support for the CX Series. Today’s CLARiiON announcements extend our commitment to protect the existing technology investments of midrange customers.”
Product Information
Customers can order the new UltraPoint Technology starting immediately with shipments beginning in September. The CLARiiON software enhancements and new EMC CLARiiON Disk Libraries will be generally available in August 2005. All of the announced EMC CLARiiON product offerings are available directly through EMC and through its worldwide Velocity Channel and distribution network. The EMC CLARiiON AX and CX Fibre Channel and iSCSI Series, as well as the EMC CLARiiON UltraPoint Technology, are available through Dell under the Dell|EMC brand.
More information about the EMC CLARiiON family of networked storage systems can be found at http://www.emc.com/products/systems/clariion.jsp
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.EMC.com.
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