EMC INTRODUCES NEW
EMC CLARiiON CX4 SERIES WITH NEXT
GENERATION ARCHITECTURE
Redesigned CLARiiON
Family is Industry’s Most Advanced
Midrange Storage System
Amman, Jordan. – October 29, 2008 – EMC
Corporation, the world leader in
information infrastructure solutions,
and their partner Intracom recently
unveiled the new EMC® CLARiiON® CX4
Series of midrange
storage systems at a launch event at
the Four Seasons Amman. With a new
architecture specifically optimized for
VMware and other virtual server
environments and designed to incorporate
the latest technologies in drives,
connectivity, processing power, thin
provisioning and security, EMC is making
it easier than ever to cost-effectively
consolidate and manage information using
the least amount of energy.
Mohammed Amin, Regional
Manager, EMC Middle East & North West
Africa, said, “Customers in the Middle
East count on EMC to provide them with
affordable, scalable, energy efficient
storage systems that are highly
available and guarantee that information
is available 24/7. The high performance
CLARiiON CX4 system brings all these
features together in addition to
supporting existing VMware
environments.”
The
CLARiiON CX4 Series is the latest
generation of the market-leading
CLARiiON family of networked storage
systems, with more than 300,000 systems
installed and a midrange storage leading
benchmark of “Five 9’s” of availability
– 99.999 percent uptime. With data
growing at nearly 60 percent annually
and information technology managers
facing increased energy costs and
tighter budgets, the new CLARiiON CX4
Series has a multitude of new features
built-in that are ideal for
virtual server
Mark Peters, an analyst
with
Enterprise Strategy Group
The CLARiiON CX4 Series
is comprised of four models, which are
supported by all CLARiiON management and
replication software including EMC
Navisphere® Management Suite, EMC
MirrorView™, EMC SnapView™, EMC SAN
Copy™ and other software. The new
models include:
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CLARiiON CX4-120, which
features up to 120 disk drives for a
total capacity of 120 TB
(terabytes), 6 GB (gigabytes) of
system memory and up to12 Fibre
Channel and/or 8 iSCSI ports.
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CLARiiON CX4-240, which
features up to 240 disk drives for a
total capacity of 231 TB, 8 GB of
system memory and up to 12 Fibre
Channel and/or 12 iSCSI ports.
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CLARiiON CX4-480,
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CLARiiON CX4-960,
which
features up to 960 disk drives
including SSDs for a total capacity
of 951 TB, 32 GB of system memory
and up to 24 Fibre Channel and/or 16
iSCSI ports.
David Donatelli,
President of the EMC Storage Division,
said, “EMC is continuing to use its
significant resources and talent to
incorporate the innovative features that
our customers require into a single,
scalable and easy-to-use midrange
platform. We are again pioneering the
use of flash drives, this time in
midrange storage, and have designed
these systems to take full advantage of
server virtualization technology. The
CLARiiON CX4 Series is unmatched in the
industry when it comes to scalability,
features, energy efficiency and ease of
use. With this next generation of
systems, we’ve extended our technology
leadership and have widened the
competitive gap even further.”
Availability
The
CLARiiON CX4 Series is generally
available worldwide from EMC, its
Velocity² Program Partners and Velocity²
Authorized Services Network (ASN)
Partners. It is also being offered by
Dell under the Dell/EMC brand and
Fujitsu Siemens Computers under the
FibreCat brand. Flash drive and virtual
provisioning capabilities will be
available in October 2008. Drive
spin-down is available
for EMC Disk Library today; additional
general-
About EMC
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EMC) is the world’s leading developer
and provider of information
infrastructure technology and solutions
that enable organizations of all sizes
to transform the way they compete and
create value from their information.
Information about EMC’s products and
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What Partners are
Saying About the CLARiiON CX4 Series:
“Arrow ECS is pleased to
offer the CLARiiON CX4 systems to our
partners as a solution for integrating
VMware environments with storage
systems. The CLARiiON CX4 will enable
our partners to solve their customers’
data consolidation challenges and
security issues, all with one system,”
said Sean
Kerins, vice president of the Storage
Group for Arrow Enterprise Computing
Solutions, a business segment of Arrow
Electronics Inc.
“Unisys specializes
in solutions for a real-time
infrastructure that enables clients to
respond immediately to dynamic changes
in their business. The EMC CLARiiON
CX4 provides exceptional flexibility for
storage in that environment. It
easily accommodates future technology by
adding or upgrading I/O modules. Plus,
its capability to mix and match Fibre
Channel and iSCSI makes it unusually
easy to expand the system online as
a client’s business requirements
change.” said
Chris Gale Data Management Marketing
Director, Unisys
EMC,
CLARiiON, Symmetrix, FLARE, Navisphere,
RSA, envision and PowerPath are
registered trademarks and MirrorView,
SnapView, Celerra, SAN Copy and
UltraFlex are trademarks of EMC
Corporation. VMware is a registered
trademark of VMware, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their
respective owners
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