Less than six months after delivering the Symmetrix DMX series of information storage systems, EMC Corporation has released the next wave of Symmetrix DMX systems, software and related technologies.
According to Alex Robertson, Technology Solutions Group Manager, EMC SA, Symmetrix DMX enables customers to keep pace with increasingly complex and demanding high-end workloads and benefit from new ways to lower storage acquisition and operation costs.
"Customers are telling us loudly and clearly that information is not a commodity," says Robertson. "Nearly all companies have a critical set of information that demands the highest service levels. The value that information can deliver back to the business is only as good as the storage environment it lives in."
The latest releases from EMC include the top-end Symmetrix DMX3000, which satisfies high-performance, high-functionality and high-capacity consolidation requirements by delivering predictably high performance for large-scale dynamic workloads.
With up to 576 drives for a maximum raw capacity of more than 84TB and usable capacities of up to 73.5TB, Symmetrix DMX3000 delivers twice the capacity and up to twice the performance for certain applications compared to the Symmetrix DMX2000.
"The new Symmetrix DMX3000 takes advantage of the full range of Symmetrix DMX functionality and provides customers with linear performance scalability delivered through the Symmetrix Direct Matrix Architecture," says Robertson.
A new entry-level configuration of the modular rack-mounted Symmetrix DMX800 carries all the attributes of a full Symmetrix DMX system with raw capacities for the new configuration scaling from 580GB to more than 17TB.
Symmetrix DMX and the Enginuity operating environment deliver the ability to upgrade, reconfigure and service storage resources without disrupting host applications. "With the newest version of Enginuity, Symmetrix DMX is the only high-end storage system to provide online, non-disruptive capabilities without requiring additional hardware and/or software on attached hosts," Robertson says.
He adds that EMC has also released two new software products, SRDF/A, a high-performance extended distance replication software, and EMC Snap, a space-saving local replication software for high-end storage. "Here, advanced connectivity helps high-end storage customers reduce cost, extend distances and increase the number of local and remote replications they can create to support continuous business operations," Robertson says.
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