IBM looking to saw off chunk of EMC customers
IBM looking to saw off chunk of EMC customers
The fifth release of IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller has been designed specifically to expand its support to include virtualisation and management of the complete line of EMC disk storage systems.
IBM claims that this will allow EMC clients to simplify and manage their storage environments through a centralised view.
It supports the latest addition of EMC's CLARiiON CX Series, including the CX300, CX500 and CX700 arrays.
The SAN Volume Controller is the first virtualisation to pass SNIA's Conformance Testing Program (SNIA-CTP) for the Storage Management Initiative Specifications.
The SNIA-CTP was created to provide end-users with a "trusted" verification process to ensure that vendors followed the interpretation of SMI-S accurately and in a common manner.
This latest release provides enhanced scalability for FlashCopy and Metro Mirroring to help clients manage business continuity in bigger storage environments.
IBM's recent submission to the Storage Performance Council benchmark returned results showing that the IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller-based solution set a new world record of 100,128 IOPS for storage virtualisation performance.
According to IBM, this more than doubled the previous virtualisation performance record of 50,003 IOPS set by DataCore SANsymphony.
Despite the news of IBM aiming for EMC customers, EMC also proudly announced this week that an IDC found it to be the world leader of information storage and management. The report found that it extended its worldwide storage software lead again in the third quarter of 2004 to 31.8 percent of revenue share.
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