EMC has announced major enhancements to EMC Navisphere, EMC SnapView and EMC SAN Copy software applications for CLARiiON networked storage platforms. The move forms part of a broad introduction of new software products and capabilities architected to simplify storage management for the mid-tier market.
"These technology advances for EMC`s mid-tier storage solution are targeted directly at customer demands for greater ease of management, backup and recovery and consolidation," says Alex Robertson, Technology Solutions Group Manager, EMC SA.
Navisphere now provides the ability to dynamically expand storage volumes on the fly to improve capacity utilisation and performance of CLARiiON-based storage resources. "Through Navisphere`s intuitive LUN Expansion Wizard, customers can create and manage the non-disruptive growth of storage volumes to meet application demand," says Robertson.
CLARiiON`s SnapView point-in-time copy software now includes instant restore functionality for SnapView snapshots - driving down the cost of CLARiiON local replication, while accelerating disk-based recovery. "This new feature offers customers the capability to instantly and affordably restore a SnapView snapshot session back to the production volume," says Robertson.
With this enhancement, SnapView customers can instantly restore both SnapView Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs) and SnapView snapshots - providing more choice for customers to leverage BCVs to support high I/O workloads or snapshots for capacity and cost optimisation.
SnapView Integration Module for Exchange (SIME), a new EMC Proven Solution for Exchange, integrates technology from Microsoft and EMC to simplify and automate the non-disruptive backup and rapid restore of Exchange databases. This technology and services offering from EMC provides administrators the ability to schedule and automate backup and recovery procedures of Exchange databases through an intuitive wizard that maintains the same look and feel of the Exchange management interface.
Robertson says SAN Copy, a recently introduced CLARiiON software solution, now supports bi-directional data mobility between EMC and HP StorageWorks arrays.
"Whether a business needs to move data between production environments and test systems for development or deliver daily distributions for rapid data consolidation, SAN Copy provides a reliable, high-speed application to automate bulk data transfers without consuming host or LAN resources," he says.
"In addition, this new functionality enables customers to migrate data from older storage assets to EMC`s CLARiiON CX series of networked storage platforms."
Enabled by the latest version of CLARiiON`s FLARE operating environment, release 12, the new software functionality is available immediately through EMC and its channel partners.
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