HOPKINTON, USA: EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, has unveiled the new EMC CLARiiON CX4 Series of midrange storage systems. With a new architecture specifically optimized for VMware and other virtual server environments and designed to incorporate the latest technologies in drives, connectivity, processing power, thin provisioning and security. The CLARiiON CX4 Series is the latest generation of the market-leading CLARiiON family of networked storage systems, with more than 300,000 systems installed and a midrange storage leading benchmark of "Five 9's" of availability – 99.999 percent uptime. With data growing at nearly 60 percent annually and information technology managers facing increased energy costs and tighter budgets, the new CLARiiON CX4 Series has a multitude of new features built-in that are ideal for virtual server environments – including VMware infrastructure – use less energy, improve storage utilization, performance and management and protect the overall storage investment. These include:
Forsyth County, beta tested and is implementing an EMC CLARiiON CX4 storage system as part of a virtualized information infrastructure that provides services to more than 330,000 citizens. Rob Robinson, CIO, Forsyth County, said: "The residents of eight cities and towns in the county count on us to make a wide range of information available 7x24, and we needed an affordable storage system that could grow with us while providing the highest levels of availability, performance and energy efficiency. The CLARiiON CX4 system brought together all of the features we were looking for into a single system that will support our VMware environment serving more than 24 departments and agencies using a range of applications." Robinson added: "Setting the new CLARiiON CX4 system up and managing it was simple, and we immediately saw the faster performance, which is especially critical for online human services and public safety applications. In addition, we're protecting the taxpayer's investment because our CLARiiON CX4 can be easily upgraded to support future technologies that will enable our IT organization to continue to offer leading information services to the citizens of our communities." Mark Peters, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group, said: "With this new CLARiiON, EMC is continuing to press hard to address some of the most crucial cost and management challenges faced by storage and IT managers. To achieve that, the CLARiiON CX4 has technical advances on so many fronts simultaneously that it's hard to find much that is missing. The CLARiiON CX4's new design and built-in features, including flash drives, are delivered in a highly modular system that can be customized for midrange users' precise needs. As an incumbent market leader, EMC faces a bar that continually gets set higher, yet the CLARiiON CX4 seems to have cleared the latest height. Overall this is an extremely well thought-out package from EMC." The CLARiiON CX4 Series is comprised of four models, which are supported by all CLARiiON management and replication software including EMC Navisphere Management Suite, EMC MirrorView, EMC SnapView, EMC SAN Copy and other software. The new models include: CLARiiON CX4-120, which features up to 120 disk drives for a total capacity of 120 TB (terabytes), 6 GB (gigabytes) of system memory and up to 12 Fibre Channel and/or 8 iSCSI ports. CLARiiON CX4-240, which features up to 240 disk drives for a total capacity of 231 TB, 8 GB of system memory and up to 12 Fibre Channel and/or 12 iSCSI ports. CLARiiON CX4-480, which features up to 480 disk drives including SSDs for a total capacity of 471 TB, 16 GB of system memory and up to 16 Fibre Channel and/or 12 iSCSI ports. CLARiiON CX4-960, which features up to 960 disk drives including SSDs for a total capacity of 951 TB, 32 GB of system memory and up to 24 Fibre Channel and/or 16 iSCSI ports. David Donatelli, President of the EMC Storage Division, said: "EMC is continuing to use its significant resources and talent to incorporate the innovative features that our customers require into a single, scalable and easy-to-use midrange platform. We are again pioneering the use of flash drives, this time in midrange storage, and have designed these systems to take full advantage of server virtualization technology. The CLARiiON CX4 Series is unmatched in the industry when it comes to scalability, features, energy efficiency and ease of use. With this next generation of systems, we've extended our technology leadership and have widened the competitive gap even further."
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