EMC unveils record-breaking number of new storage products, technologies

By eGovAsia Editors | Jan 24, 2011

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SINGAPORE -- More than 40 new technologies and storage products, including new arrays for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), new unified systems for the midrange, new software for its high-end systems and new disk-based backup and recovery and archiving systems, were launched by information infrastructure solutions EMC Corp. recently.

The public sector may yet be one of the biggest beneficiaries of these record-breaking number of innovations designed to make it simpler than ever for businesses and organizations to harness and exploit the massive amounts of information they generate each day.

Enhancements to the EMC Symmetrix VMAX software technologies, for one, now make it the most powerful storage array in the world capable of supporting petabytes of information and up to five million virtual machines.

Among the multiple new features are an advanced version of FAST (fully automated storage tiering) software that automatically optimizes the array based on data usage; new server virtualization, security and federation capabilities; and new operating software that doubles system performance with no hardware upgrade required.

Its new Data Domain backup and archiving capabilities, one the other hand, include new systems that are seven times faster than the competition. The features, among others, the industry’s first deduplication system designed exclusively for long-term disk-based retention of backups.

“What you’re seeing today is EMC ‘doubling down’ on its core franchise: storage. The technologies are changing, the use cases are changing and the consumption models are changing. These new products and capabilities put us in an excellent position to capitalize on the major trends in the IT industry and place us squarely at the intersection the biggest ones: cloud computing and Big Data,” said Joe Tucci, EMC Chairman and CEO, at the launch held in New York, London and Singapore on the same day.
 
Meanwhile, EMC also integrated its CLARiiON storage area network (SAN) systems and its Celerra network attached storage (NAS) systems into a single, easily managed and powerful family of unified storage arrays into the new EMC VNX family.

EMC said VNX is three times simpler, more efficient and faster and have the full suite of functionality of its predecessors. Included in the VNX family is the newly introduced VNXe storage system, a simple, efficient and affordable unified storage array designed specifically for SMBs and offered through EMC partners.