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Cisco to sell EMC network-attached storage
By Deni Connor
Network World, 01/10/05
Cisco and EMC Monday inked a deal in which customers will be able to buy EMC’s network-attached storage arrays with Cisco’s File Engine appliances.
Cisco will re-brand the EMC NS500 and NS700 Series NAS subsystems and sell them with remote-office storage consolidation technology that it acquired from Actona last June.
In a typical configuration, an NS500 or NS700 would be placed in a data center, where it would attach to a Cisco File Engine FE511. The FE511 would communicate to other FE511 appliances located in remote offices and transfer file changes to the data center where data can be backed up and protected.
The package differs in intent from EMC’s OnCourse software. OnCourse is not a branch-office connectivity package; it is used primarily for transferring regularly occurring files, such as parts lists, to branch or remote offices.
This is not the first collaboration between EMC and Cisco. EMC OEMs Cisco’s MDS 9000 Multilayer Director switches. The companies also offer joint disaster recovery and business continuity services to customers.
The Cisco File Engine appliance costs $12,000; an NS500 with a terabyte of capacity is $40,000; an NS700 with 2T bytes of capacity is $137,500.
The package will be available in the second quarter of this year.
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