EMC introduces the Clariion CX400

EMC has announced the CLARiiON CX400 networked storage system. The second member of EMC`s next-generation CLARiiON CX family, the CX400 features EMC`s portfolio of feature-rich software applications.

"The full 2-gigabit CLARiiON CX400 delivers the best performance in its class - featuring a significant breakthrough in economics of bandwidth," says Alex Robertson, country systems engineering and professional services manager, EMC SA. "With 680 megabytes per second of cached bandwidth, the CX400`s price/bandwidth ratio is 20% better than its closest competitor."

The CX400 shares a common architecture, components, FLARE operating environment and software functionality with the recently announced CX600, while maintaining tight management integration with prior CLARiiON generations.

"This continuity takes investment protection to new heights by providing common, reusable components across the CX family that customers can leverage as their requirements scale in capacity and performance," says Robertson. "As application or consolidation requirements expand, customers can utilise CLARiiON CX400`s modularity to upgrade, through a simple storage processor swap, with data-in-place, to the mid-tier networked storage system - the CLARiiON CX600."

In addition, the company continues to expand the growing list of common storage management functionality under its AutoIS strategy, tying together its networked storage platforms, CLARiiON and Symmetrix, as well as other third-party storage arrays.

The extensive software suite available across both systems includes members of the EMC ControlCenter family of management software such as Automated Resource Manager, Database Tuner, Replication Manager, SAN Manager, StorageScope, Workload Analyzer and other products like PowerPath and EMC Data Manager.

Furthermore, the company has announced a significant enhancement to SnapView, a non-disruptive point-in-time copy software, incorporating Business Continuance Volumes (BCVs). "Customers can now utilise BCVs - a fully independent volume - to perform multiple simultaneous processes such as backups, data warehouse refreshes and testing," Robertson concludes.