New switches help EMC chase the SME market
New switches help EMC chase the SME market
EMC continues to chase the small and medium sized enterprise market and added to its recent CLARiiON announcements today with the addition of smaller switches from McData.
The Intrepid 6140 Director and Sphereon 4500 Fabric Switch will be offered to EMC customers under an original equipment manufacture (OEM) deal. Clive Gold, the director of marketing for EMC in Australia and New Zealand said that the McData devices will have undergone an EMC qualification process and will be available to the local market in the first quarter of 2003.
The Intrepid will offer EMC and its customers a 140 port, 2 gigabyte per-second device and the Sphereon adds a lower priced fibre channel to EMC storage area network (SAN) offerings.
"We now cover far more of the mid and small range, and that is why we need the lower port counts, specifically in the Australian market, as the SME is dominant," said Mr Gold.
Creating 53 per cent of sales and revenue, EMC is the most valuable customer McData has. McData was a part of EMC when the fibre channel market first emerged, but split away in February 2001 to become a separate company.
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