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EMC unveils storage solutions for SMBs

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BANGALORE, INDIA: EMC Corporation, a provider of information infrastructure solutions, on Wednesday unveiled storage solutions for large enterprises as well as SMBs in India, which it claims will help them store and maintain data for many years.

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The new products are designed to make it simpler for businesses of all sizes to exploit the massive amounts of information they generate each day, the company said in a press conference.

The company announced more then 40 new storage systems and software features, including a new family of unified storage systems EMC VNX for SMBs, new unified systems for the midrange, new software for its high-end systems and new disk-based backup and recovery and archiving systems.

It claimed that the new family of unified storage systems — EMC VNX — consolidates the features and functionality of EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra into a single, powerful family of unified storage arrays that scale from entry-level to datacenter-class systems.

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Manoj Chugh, president, EMC India and SAARC, said, “With VNXe, EMC has designed an entirely new storage array built specifically for the SMB segment, which does not have the luxury of in-house storage experts. EMC VNXe can be installed in minutes and configured in seconds.”

Commenting on the storage trends in the SMB segment, Kishan Bhat, engagement manager, Zinnov Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd., said, “Small and medium sized businesses in India are increasingly realizing the benefits of storing enterprise data and analyzing the trends within to optimize their business performance. The traditional data storage systems require heavy investments and are beyond the reach of most Indian SMBs.”

He added that the need of the hour is effective, efficient, and unified data storage systems that allow SMBs to store enormous amounts of digital information while also enabling fast and scalable data backup and recovery.

It is equally important that these storage systems can be managed with ease and simplicity since most SMBs do not have in-house IT experts. At the same time, SMBs also need to be conscious of future IT requirements such as security and virtualization, which will emerge as organizations and their data consumption patterns grow, he said.