EMC Corporation has boosted its high-end storage offering with the introduction of its Symmetrix DMX series of information storage systems, based on the new, patented Direct Matrix Architecture.
Compared with the Symmetrix 8000 high-end systems, the Symmetrix DMX series provides a three- to six-fold performance increase in mixed-workload environments. Compared with the nearest competitor, this series delivers more than six times the data path bandwidth, more than four times the aggregate data and message path bandwidth, up to 10 times the peak cache bandwidth and 50% more external host and network connections.
The Symmetrix Direct Matrix Architecture represents a radical departure from today`s standard bus- and switch-based architectures, helping customers to benefit from the full value of automated networked storage and offers new ways to lower both their storage acquisition and operations costs. At the same time it offers complete continuity with EMC`s Enginuity operating environment as well as leading software applications.
The series is designed for full compliance with the SMI (Storage Management Initiative, previously known as CIM/Bluefin) specifications, which are to come into effect early this year.
"The Symmetrix Direct Matrix Architecture is designed to scale performance and capacity as customer needs increase. It provides an order of magnitude increase in performance and availability, and scales smoothly to handle the next decade of high end storage demands," says Frank Touwen, country manager of EMC SA.
The architectural flexibility of the Symmetrix DMX series enables customers to purchase tailored configurations that precisely balance capacity and performance. The new high-performance parity RAID protection offers the option of increased disk utilisation efficiency over alternate data protection methods and the highest parity RAID performance in the industry.
In addition, new high-performance/high-density ports allow more servers per port and more ports per array, thus saving customers the expense of purchasing additional storage arrays and switches. And through the availability of common disk drives and other components across EMC`s product line, customers will benefit from the cost-efficiencies of a single EMC supply chain.
The new DMX series can be fully managed by EMC ControlCenter open management software, which also provides management capabilities for all other major storage platforms. It also addresses the increasing trend towards adoption of networked storage solutions.
The series is available in three models, namely the Symmetrix DMX800, Symmetrix DMX1000 and the Symmetrix DMX2000.
The Symmetrix DMX800 rack-mount high-end storage system scales from eight to 16 front-end ports, from 1.2 to17.5 terabytes of raw capacity and from four to 32 gigabytes of global cache for open systems environments.
The Symmetrix DMX1000, a single-bay integrated system, scales from eight to 48 front-end ports, from 3.5 to 21 terabytes of raw capacity and from four to 64 gigabytes of global cache for mainframe and open systems environments.
The dual-bay integrated Symmetrix DMX2000 system, scales from eight to 96 front-end ports, from seven to 42 terabytes raw capacity and from eight to 128 gigabytes of global cache for mainframe and open systems environments.
Says Touwen: "EMC has made a quantum leap in its storage hardware technology, while preserving all of its software. This eliminates the risk of implementing new technology and waiting for code stabilisation and affords customers the benefit of not suffering year-long new product shakeouts - typical in this industry - enabling them to take immediate advantage of the capabilities delivered by the new Symmetrix DMX."
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