EMC Upgrades CLARiiON and ILM Capabilities
EMC Upgrades CLARiiON and ILM Capabilities
May 10th, 2006: EMC has announced both a significant upgrade to its CLARiiON Ultrascale architecture and a boost to its Information Lifecycle Management capabilities through the purchase of Israel-based Kasya software.
In a US$153 cash deal, EMC has boosted its Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) capabiltiies by acquiring enterprise-class data replication and data protection software provider Kashya.
The acquisition adds to EMC's Information Lifecycle Management capabilities, in the area of The main benefits of the Kashya purchase will surface in EMC’s Storage Virtualisation and Recovery Management.
Kashya's Continuous Data Protection technology will drive future releases of EMC's CDP Solution, RecoverPoint. The acquisition also adds network-based Disaster Recovery style remote “snap” replication technology to EMC’s Invista.
“Information protection is a chief concern for customers today,” says Dave DeWalt, President, EMC Software Group. “By combining Kashya’s rich portfolio of heterogeneous replication software with our industry leading virtualisation and continuous data protection technologies, EMC is enhancing the market’s broadest set of capabilities for virtualising and safeguarding the world’s information.
“Beyond the complementary nature of its products and partner ecosystem with that of EMC, Kashya represents immediate technology infusion in the areas of storage virtualization, recovery management and heterogeneous replication while bringing key technologies to EMC for future development. Additionally, Kashya’s Israel-based R&D operation forms the core of the new, innovative EMC Israel Software Development Center.”
EMC is also announcing what it calls a “breakthrough in midrange storage performance, scalability and economics” with its new CLARiiON UltraScale architecture and CX3 series of networked storage systems.
EMC says that the UltraScale is designed from the ground up to support information ILM strategies by enabling the consolidation of multiple tiers of information onto a single array, and the first midrange storage architecture to accelerate 4Gb/s scalability and data throughput with native multi-lane PCI Express interconnect technology.
“This really is a new design. The big thing about the ultra scale is that it has gone from parallel to serial storage with PCI Express.” Clive Gold, product manager at EMC told IDM. “HP were the historical leaders in this area, but we feel that with the release of ultrascale we are now a year to eighteen months, a generation, ahead.”
The company says that the UltraScale has up to double the performance and capacity of its predecessor and enables the workload of two competitive systems to be consolidated onto a single new CLARiiON CX3 system for greater simplicity.
“Our customers have told us that operations too complex, so we’re giving them the option to install and service the Clariion themselves. Fans, hard disks and so on can all be pulled out and replace. This does not mean that we are cutting back on service staff.
The CLARiiON UltraScale CX3-20, CX3-40 and CX3-80 models are available now from EMC, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Unisys and EMC’s worldwide Velocity Channel and reseller network. According to Gold, pricing starts at AU$30,000 for the entry-level CX20 1Tb.
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