CSS Distributors, the largest reseller of EMC CLARiiON products in South Africa, has announced extension of its partnership with EMC South Africa to incorporate the company`s recently announced Networked Attached Storage (NAS) solutions for mid-range open systems. CSS Distributors will add the EMC CLARiiON IP 4700 to its portfolio of EMC products and will be supplying it to local corporates and resellers.
"EMC has been a leader in high end NAS storage with its Symmetrix and Cellera systems, and now offers a fully functional system for the mid range market. With the new networked storage systems and software, EMC is extending the reach of information storage technology from the data centre`s core to the network`s edge. The new solutions bring NAS and SANs into a unified network, while extending enterprise-level high availability to the mid-tier NAS market," says Gustav van der Gryp, CEO of CSS Distributors.
Among the new announcements, EMC Celerra with HighRoad software incorporates new software functionality into the EMC Celerra File Server operating environment and participating servers. HighRoad combines the industry-standard file sharing of NAS with the high performance and efficient information delivery of a SAN into a unified storage network. It significantly enhances file-sharing capabilities and performance in high-bandwidth, collaborative and publishing applications.
The new EMC CLARiiON IP4700 network-attached storage system (code-named "Chameleon") changes the colour of the NAS landscape by delivering a combination of fault tolerance and ease of deployment to the mid-tier NAS market. CLARiiON IP4700 blends advanced high-availability features with ease of use and deployment (an average 10-minute installation) at half the price of competitive products. In addition, new optional EMC SnapView/IP software provides multiple, independent point-in-time copies of the active CLARiiON IP4700 file system to shorten backup and recovery windows, generate point-in-time analysis and reporting, and speed non-disruptive application testing and development.
"The new EMC CLARiiON IP4700 brings high-end, highly available functionality to the mid-tier NAS market. IP4700 scales to 3.6 terabytes in rack-mountable increments, is designed from the ground up to enable seamless failover of operations without the added burden of special software and complex configurations, and is supported by industry-leading backup solutions. Simplified packaging and design offers customers a high-availability configuration with rapid installation," says Van der Gryp.
"We are delighted to add the IP4700, the first CLARiiON to support Network Attached Storage, to our resources as we believe this will be an excellent platform for our user applications requiring shared access to data. The SNAPVIEW facility will allow us to do on-line back-ups for our users requiring 24 by forever access to their data," he says.
"These announcements bring EMC`s enterprise and midrange storage experience to this network-connected information. EMC has taken what customers expect from the EMC offering high levels of performance, availability, scalability, protection, manageability and flexibility, as well as service and support - and applied them across a full spectrum of NAS solutions," he concludes.
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