EMC Upgrades Arrays with SNIA Specifications

May 3, 2007: EMC has been working up a sweat on interoperability and support of open standards for storage management lately, and the fruits of its labour are beginning to show with the announcement that it has implemented support for SNIA SMI-S v1.2 in current and previous models of its Symmetrix and CLARiiON storage arrays.

ECM has now become one of the first vendors to implement key profiles and features of the Storage Networking Industry Association's (SNIA) Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) , however, further to this it says it has also added platform-specific extensions beyond what is required by SMI-S.

The company claims the upgrade offers customers access to additional rich management features within its arrays, as now EMC storage platforms are open to be managed by any SMI-S-compliant storage management applications, including EMC’s own ControlCenter software.

“EMC is committed to helping its customers and the SNIA advance SMI-S by developing and implementing complete, feature-rich profiles into its products,” said Jeff Nick, EMC's Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. “EMC is moving ahead aggressively to help accelerate SMI-S momentum and to be a catalyst for widespread adoption of the specification in end-user environments.”

EMC will be showing off its new SMI-S capabilities at the Storage Management Solution Centre at Storage Networking World Spring from April 16-19 in the US.

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