Reliability is focus for improved CLARiiON family
Reliability is focus for improved CLARiiON family
Aug 04, 2005: EMC has announced improvements to its CLARiiON family of networked storage systems and software, promising they will offer greater reliability and availability for customers as environments grow and become more sophisticated.
The new CLARiiON CX300-s, CX500-s, and CX700-s Fibre Channel and iSCSI models are based on UltraPoint hardware and software technology that combines point-to-point connectivity to individual disk drives with advanced abilities in diagnosis.
The Virtual LUN Technology allows CLARiiON customers to move data seamlessly within a CLARiiON system to improve performance and capacity utilisation.
EMC claims that the UltraPoint Technology allows midrange customers to scale their environments more effectively with leading availability and reliability features, and it is backwards-compatible with previous version of the CLARiiON CX Series.
Arun Taneja, the founder of Taneja Group, said that EMC's CLARiiON family has been a bellweather for high performance, modularity, high availability and robustness since its inception many years ago.
"It continues to lend itself to functional and capacity enhancements that reveal its architectural strength. This is what makes it one of the strongest players in the midrange market."
Another new capability for the CLARiiON CX300, CX500 and CX700 Fibre Channel systems is built-in support for DC power. This is believed to be capable of delivering the benefits of automated networked storage to all customers, especially those in mobile and remote locations, often found in Government installations and in the telecommunications and oil and gas industries.
In addition, these systems will have the ability to use EMC SnapView and EMC MirrorView/S capabilities for business continuity, which it claims can support up to twice as many LUNs.
They can also take advantage of SAN Copy/E, aimed at improving data mobility between CLARiiON AX100/CX300 arrays and larger CX Series storage systems. EMC champions this for being able to streamline the movement of data from edge locations such as branch offices to a core locations, such as a central data centre for backup, disaster recovery and reporting purposes.
The EMC Navisphere Manager support for the CLARiiON AX100 is aimed at providing centralised management for both AX100 systems and CX Series systems from a single, easy-to-use web-based management console.
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