TWO NEWS RELEASES: EMC VNX Unified Storage Delivers 25 per cent More Storage Efficiency; New EMC VNXe and VNX Unified Storage Now Shipping Worldwide
Good morning,
Please see below for two announcements from EMC regarding EMC VNX and
VNXe unified storage solutions.
1) EMC VNX Unified Storage Delivers 25 per cent More Storage
Efficiency
2) New EMC VNXe and VNX Unified Storage Now Shipping Worldwide
Thank you.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EMC VNX Unified Storage Delivers 25 per cent More Storage Efficiency
– Guaranteed
HOPKINTON, MA – March 8, 2011 – EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today
announced its EMC® VNX® unified storage solutions are guaranteed to be
25 per cent more efficient
(http://www.emc.com/products/unified-storage-guarantee/index.htm)
than any other unified storage solution in the market – with no hidden
caveats. The guarantee is timed with the general availability
(http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110308-01.htm) of the VNX
family of unified storage systems (introduced
(http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110118-05.htm) in January
2011), and highlights the simplicity, efficiency and power of EMC’s
unified storage offerings.
In May 2010 EMC established a 20 per cent more efficient guarantee.
Numerous customers proved that guarantee to be too conservative, which
is why EMC is increasing its commitment to helping our customers
maximize storage efficiency.
Announcement Highlights
* The new EMC 25 per cent Storage Efficiency guarantee is based on
out-of-the-box best practices. Now, EMC customers can purchase 25 per
cent less raw capacity than products from any other unified storage
solution while benefiting from the same amount of useable capacity.
Buying less raw capacity can substantially reduce acquisition and
operational costs, while enabling customers to buy more raw and usable
capacity from EMC for the same amount of money as they would pay for a
competing solution.
* The 25 per cent Storage Efficiency guarantee covers the EMC VNX
series and EMC Celerra® unified storage systems.
* In related news, EMC announced worldwide general availability of the
VNXe series and VNX series of storage solutions.
Boston Medical Center, a private, not for profit, 626-licensed bed
academic medical centre that is the primary teaching affiliate for
Boston University School of Medicine, uses EMC unified storage.
“EMC unified storage enables Boston Medical Center to manage our
information simply and efficiently – while being powerful enough to
handle our growth and the demands of our virtualized applications. EMC
Unisphere™ made management a breeze – just a few clicks to provision,
protect and report on both physical and virtual resources. Our EMC
unified storage deployment was more than 20 per cent more efficient than
competitive offerings, and we feel that EMC can easily attain its new 25
per cent guarantee,” said Joe Pesaturo, Senior Storage Architect,
Boston Medical Center.
Azimut Yachts, an Italian luxury yacht builder, chose EMC unified
storage over products from HP, IBM and NetApp.
“EMC unified storage is simple, efficient and powerful. We’ve been
approached by other companies with guarantees – but EMC is the only
company with no hidden caveats. The company’s confidence in its
storage efficiency is evident by this 25 per cent guarantee. This is
part of the reason we chose EMC – based on innovations to maximize
SSDs, SAN/NAS multiprotocol connectivity, and the price/performance
ratio. Another key criteria has been EMC’s quality consulting and
service throughout the selection process – a true added value to the
offering,” said Claudio Bertotti, ICT System Architect at Azimut
Yachts.
“The simplicity, efficiency and power of EMC unified storage is
unmatched in the market,” said Rich Napolitano, President, Unified
Storage Division at EMC Corporation. “The EMC 25 per cent storage
efficiency guarantee is EMC’s promise to customers that we help them
do more with less – in virtualized environments or standard
deployments. While other companies have ‘
guarantees’, they come with
pages of caveats and fine print. The EMC guarantee is plain and simple
– manage your information simply, for less money with the most
powerful unified storage solutions available.”
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and
provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that
enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and
create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products
and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com
EMC, VNX, Unisphere and Celerra are registered trademarks or trademarks
of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other
trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New EMC VNXe and VNX Unified Storage Now Shipping Worldwide
Broad Customer and Partner Demand for the VNX Family’s Simplicity,
Efficiency, Power and Affordability
HOPKINTON, MA - March 8, 2011 - EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today
announced EMC® VNXe® and VNX® unified storage solutions (introduced in
January 2011 (http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110118-05.htm))
are now available and shipping worldwide. The systems are available from
both EMC and a wide range of distributors and resellers.
Announcement Highlights
* EMC announced worldwide general availability of the EMC VNXe series
targeting small and medium-sized businesses (SMB) and offered primarily
through EMC partners; and the EMC VNX series, which consolidate the
leading features and functionality of the award-winning EMC CLARiiON®
and EMC Celerra® systems into a single, powerful family of unified
storage arrays that scale to data centre-class solutions.
* The VNXe series (http://www.emc.com/products/series/vnxe-series.htm)
is breaking records as the world’s simplest unified storage system,
providing the ability to deploy - in just a few clicks - storage for
hundreds of Exchange mailboxes or VMware data stores. The VNXe series,
designed for the IT generalist with limited storage experience, offers
an entry price of under US$10,000.
* The VNX series is breaking records as the fastest and most efficient
midrange storage system on the market. According to
(http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110224-01.htm) a recent
benchmark performance test (SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3
(http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008nfs.html)) VNX Series is
49 per cent faster than an HP system (BL860c i2 4-node HA-NFS Cluster)1,
23 per cent faster than an IBM system (IBM Scale Out Network Attached
Storage 16-node cluster, Version 1.2)2, and 160 per cent faster than the
NetApp FAS 6240 Series system 3.
* In related news
(http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110308-02.htm), the new
EMC 25 per cent Storage Efficiency Guarantee
(http://www.emc.com/products/unified-storage-guarantee/index.htm)
enables VNX series customers to now purchase 25 per cent less raw
capacity than products from any other unified storage solution while
benefiting from the same amount of useable capacity.
What Partners Are Saying
“Our customers want storage that is simple, reliable and able to
seamlessly integrate with the applications they use to run their
business. EMC has hit a home run with the VNX family, making it easy for
customers to deploy. They've made the investment to help us make VNX the
foundation of our comprehensive solutions with some of the most
extensive training we've seen,” said Daniel Serpico, President of
FusionStorm.
“EMC's VNX and VNXe have enabled ICI to expand its reach into
midrange and SMB markets. To keep up with the accelerated demand that
ICI is already seeing with the VNXe in
the SMB space, ICI is adding more
members to its SMB focused team. EMC has also made it easier than ever
for partners to complete product training in no time at all,” said
Jamie Shepard, EVP, Technology Solutions at International Computerware,
Inc. (ICI).
VNXe Series Product Highlights
* Powerful application-based provisioning wizards for breakthrough
simplicity, including support for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft
Hyper-V.
* Compact 2U and 3U packaging fits almost any environment.
* Built-in support for file-based (CIFS, NFS) and block-based (iSCSI)
storage.
* No single-point-of-failure design.
* Built-in data protection, including replication.
* Advanced efficiency features including thin provisioning, file
deduplication and compression.
* Integrated self-help and support infrastructure automates and speeds
problem resolution.
* Advanced 6Gbps SAS and Nearline SAS drive support.
* Scalable up to 120 disk drives (240 TB).
VNX Series Product Highlights
* Combines the market-leading capabilities of EMC CLARiiON and EMC
Celerra into a single, unified platform - with 3-times the performance
of previous generations.
* Based on Intel Xeon 5600 multicore processor technology to maximize
solution throughput and bandwidth.
* Industry’s most advanced automated storage tiering (FAST VP).
* Only storage solution offering both automated file and block sub-LUN
tiering using FAST VP and powerful, extendable system cache with FAST
Cache.
* Supports 6Gbps SAS, Nearline SAS, and SSD drive types.
* Scales up-to 2 PB per system (1000 drives).
* Support for multiple protocols and data-types including: FC, iSCSI,
FCoE, NFS, CIFS, SOAP, REST.
* Integrated data protection, security and compliance.
The general availability of the VNX family of unified storage systems
coincides with the new EMC 25 per cent more efficient storage guarantee,
highlighting the simplicity, efficiency and power of EMC’s unified
storage offerings.
The general availability of VNX and VNXe complete a recent string of
record breaking unified storage news coming from EMC, which maintained
its standing as the top provider of external disk storage systems for
the 14th consecutive year in factory revenue, according to the latest
IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, March 2011 (see
related announcement
(http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110304-01.htm)).
Additionally, in February EMC shattered benchmark performance records
(http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110224-01.htm) with a
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation benchmark (see
SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3
(http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008nfs.html)).
“When EMC unveiled the new VNX family, we made a very public and
worldwide commitment to our customers - and channel partners - that we
had developed and would deliver the industry’s most simple, efficient,
powerful and affordable unified storage solution in the market. Since
then, we’ve spoken with thousands of customers and partners and
enthusiasm, interest and demand for the VNXe and VNX have been
excellent. We’re looking forward to helping customers take advantage
of the many features of our unified solutions to more easily and more
effectively manage their information,” said Rich Napolitano,
President, Unified Storage Division at EMC Corporation.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and
provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that
enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and
create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products
and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com
EMC, VNX, CLARiiON and Celerra are registered t
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of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. SPEC® is
registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Competitive benchmark results
(http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008nfs.html) reflect results
posted on February 23, 2011. All SPECsfs2008 NFSv3results are at
http://www.spec.org/sfs2008/results/sfs2008nfs.html. All other
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