14 DAY TRIAL // EMC may have created a new storage solution series for small and medium businesses in the shape of the VNXe, but it also put together the new VNX family of unified storage systems.
The VNX series of products combines the benefits of EMC CLARiiON storage area network (SAN) and EMC Celerra network attached storage (NAS) systems.
They are powered by Intel Xeon 5600 multi-core processors and, thus, have high throughput and bandwidth.
To this is added support for up to 1,000 storage units, for 2 petabytes of maximum storage operating at 6 Gbps.
SAS and Nearline SAS solutions, and even solid state drives, can be combined via the FAST VP advanced automated storage tiering technology.
The company even went as far as implementing data protection, security and compliance, plus multiple protocols and data types (FC, iSCSI, FcoE, NFS, CIFS, SOAP and REST).
All in all, they should be three times as fast, more efficient and easier to manage than all other EMC midrange storage systems.
"IT organizations are under extreme pressure to reduce costs and deliver, more efficient IT services. In addition, the expectation for simpler IT is at an all-time high and is dissolving traditional silos at larger companies,” said David Vellante, Chief Research Advocate, Wikibon.org.
“Meanwhile, small and mid-sized organizations are facing similar pressures but with fewer in-house skills. Our financial models show that by bringing together CLARiiON and Celerra, EMC's VNX series will allow practitioners to reduce costs and accelerate IT delivery," he added.
“As a longtime EMC customer we're pleased to see that EMC once again offers the latest efficiency technologies including fully automated storage tiering FAST and space saving technologies like deduplication, optimized for a VMWare virtual environment like ours,” stated Hakan Canander, Manager IT Infrastructure & IT Support, Stena Metall.
“The VNX series is a powerful midrange storage solution that will enable Stena Metall to manage our information simply and efficiently—while being powerful enough to handle our growth and the demands of our specialized applications which help us continue to be the leader in our market."