EMC announces general availability of XtremIO all-Flash array

HOPKINTON, USA: EMC Corp. announced the general availability of EMC XtremIO™, the industry's first and only all-flash array to provide consistent and predictable extreme performance to any application workload over any period of time, regardless of whether the array is idle or busy, empty or full.

To achieve this, EMC XtremIO features several unique flash innovations: a scale-out multi-controller architecture with linear scalability; deduplication that is always on, and always inline; data protection that is 6X more efficient and 4X faster than traditional RAID.

Under the covers, EMC XtremIO is architected differently than any other all-flash array. Four key technologies work in concert to maximize performance without compromising efficiency or durability:

* Content-Based Data Placement.
* Dual-Stage Metadata Engine.
* XtremIO Data Protection (XDP).
* Shared In-Memory Metadata.

EMC expects XtremIO to be a leader in the all-flash array market, which IDC forecasts to grow to $1.2 billion in revenue by 2015. The new array is already in high demand, with 10 Petabytes of effective deduplicated capacity already sold through EMC's Directed Availability program (announced in March 2013).