EMC has announced the EMC Celerra NS600 network server, combining in one integrated package Celerra`s enterprise NAS features with the high availability of EMC CLARiiON storage systems.
"The Celerra NS600 fills out EMC`s family of NAS solutions, headed at the high-end by the Celerra CNS, which serves as a NAS gateway to both CLARiiON and Symmetrix SANs and enables customers to deploy one centrally managed infrastructure for their NAS and SAN requirements," says Alex Robertson, country systems engineering and professional services manager at EMC SA.
The EMC Celerra NS600 is a mid-sized NAS system that marries the functionality of EMC`s enterprise NAS operating system, DART (Data Access In Real-Time), with the CLARiiON storage architecture. Its high availability offers an alternative to the complex add-on clustering found in today`s mid-tier NAS solutions.
When configured for maximum performance, the NS600 more than doubles the I/Os per second of comparable NAS solutions. When operating in high availability mode, the NS600 is priced at nearly half that of comparable NAS solutions.
"The IT industry is more concerned about information protection than ever before," says Robertson. "Yet the mid-size NAS products available on the market today require clustering in order to attain high availability - for each filer IT professionals purchase, a second filer is required in order to protect it.
"The Celerra NS600`s high availability architecture solves this problem, and its integration with the rest of EMC`s networked storage and management software provides a high level of information protection and ease of information management."
The Celerra NS600 changes the rules in mid-tier NAS by offering customers an alternative to the traditional approach requiring customers to cluster multiple NAS appliances together.
"With the Celerra NS600, customers get simplified high availability, a clear upgrade path as their requirements grow, and tight integration with the rest of EMC`s portfolio of automated networked storage solutions," Robertson concludes.
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