News

EMC Expands IP Storage Lineup

EMC has expanded its set of IP (Internet protocol) storage systems with the introduction of two new versions of its EMC Celerra platform. The company claims that the mid-tier EMC Celerra NS350 and EMC Celerra NS704 integrated systems are the storage foundations of an IP-based information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy. EMC also announced what it claims is the industry's first management solution that brings automated root-cause and impact analysis to network attached storage (NAS).

The new EMC Smarts IP Availability Manager for NAS automatically discovers NAS system elements as IP devices, automates real-time root-cause analysis of critical IP network availability problems at all layers and calculates the impact of connectivity failures on related infrastructure elements.

EMC Celerra NS350

The Celerra NS350 system provides a solution for consolidating applications and servers into a single IP storage system. Capable of scaling to 10 terabytes of capacity, the integrated Celerra NS350 supports online upgrades from single to dual Data Mover configurations. Compared with the Network Appliance FAS270, the EMC Celerra NS350 offers comparable performance but at a 10% lower price. It offers both NAS and iSCSI connectivity, supports both Fibre Channel and ATA drives within a single system and offers upgrade paths to EMC Celerra systems.

EMC Celerra NS704

The Celerra NS704 NAS system gives customers the ability to consolidate more servers and storage capacity while scaling to a higher level of performance. With up to 48 terabytes of usable capacity and both NAS and iSCSI connectivity, this solution offers flexibility for IP storage. The Celerra NS704 delivers an estimated 70,000 NFS operations per second, which is approximately 45% better performance than the Network Appliance FAS3050C and 28% better price/performance than the Network Appliance FAS980C.


print	save	email	comment