* EMC adds to its Symmetrix DMX, Clariion, Celera, Centera products
EMC this week upped the green quotient with a nearly complete refresh of its storage systems.
The company enhanced its Symmetrix DMX, Clariion, Celerra, and Centera storage arrays by adding 750GB drives that consume 25% less energy, and additional availability features and increased security.
“The upgrades benefit customers by giving them the ability to scale up, scale out or scale down where needed,” says Schulz. “This capability is necessary for customer’s to continue to grow and deploy into new areas that may have been prohibitive in the past, whether it’s physical size, footprint, cost or complexity.”
The company introduced the new Symmetrix DMX-4 array, which supports full 4Gbps Fibre Channel connectivity and the 750GB drives. It is the first vendor among HP, IBM and Hitachi Data Systems to use the 750GB drives.
The company also refreshed its mid-range Clariion storage arrays with RAID 6 or double parity support. In RAID 6, if two drives fail in a single RAID group, data can be rebuilt.
EMC’s Celerra network-attached storage and its content-addressable Centera storage systems were the beneficiaries of the most enhancements. The Celerra is now available in a single controller version – the NS20 – and can be upgraded to the larger NS40 as customer needs require. The Celerra now also supports thin provisioning in which a single pool of storage can be virtually allocated to applications and storage capacity can be over-subscribed to improve utilization.
The Centera also makes use of 750GB drives and is backwards-compatible to previous Centera versions.
As promised at the RSA Conference in February, EMC has continued to add and integrate security features into these arrays.
