Customers virtualizing their data centers and beginning their journey to the private cloud require a storage infrastructure that is both simple and efficient. EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the availability of new capabilities for its market leading EMC CLARiiON® and EMC Celerra® midrange storage platforms to meet those requirements. To view the multimedia version of this release, visit: http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2010/20100824-01.htm Simplicity begins with ease of management. Through new EMC Unisphere management software, EMC enables storage administrators to perform common tasks with 90% fewer clicks. Unisphere is integrated with VMware vCenter™ to also make life easier for VMware administrators. Simplicity continues with integration. EMC unified storage integrates out-of-the-box with VMware vSphere and VMware vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI). FCoE is also built into these midrange arrays. EMC unified storage is not just simple, it’s also more efficient—and faster too. New Block Data Compression reduces storage capacity requirements by up to 50%, and new FAST Cache performance optimization technology enables applications to run twice as fast, and is fully automated—no administrator intervention required. EMC is Simplifying Storage EMC Unisphere, a fresh approach to managing storage, and VMware vCenter Server integration and VAAI, provide a simple, integrated experience for managing both EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra storage systems in physical and virtual environments. These technologies are proven to: • Perform “set it and forget it” tuning for application workloads like SQL OLTP in 80% less time • Lower the number of “clicks” to manage common tasks by more than 90% • Provision storage from a VMware vCenter Server in only 2 clicks • Accelerate VMware server performance with 10-times less I/O for common tasks, enable 10-times more virtual machines per data store, and 10-times faster virtual machine deployment, clone, snapshot, and VMware Storage vMotion™ migrations Additionally, customers will benefit from new FCoE support built into EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra unified storage systems for a complete Ethernet storage solution. Native FCoE fulfills EMC’s commitment to deliver customers a non-disruptive path to exploiting the advantages of FCoE, while continuing to offer online upgrades to FCoE for existing CLARiiON and Celerra customers. Native support helps customers minimize infrastructure costs associated with multiple Fibre Channel HBA’s and multiple NICs, consolidates cabling, and improves savings associated with power and cooling expenses dramatically. EMC is Increasing Storage Efficiency Virtualization and the consolidation of applications puts extreme strain on storage arrays. The adoption of SSDs—coupled with SATA drives—is the best practice for satisfying these heightened demands. EMC pioneered the integration of SSD technology across its storage portfolio, understands it, and is building unique capabilities like the EMC FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) Suite, FAST Cache and Block Data Compression, that automatically optimize the use of high-capacity SATA drives and high-performance SSDs to deliver better performance at the lowest cost with the availability of new 100GB and 200GB SSDs—an industry first—delivering up to 30% list price savings, EMC is making SSDs more affordable than ever before. As SSDs become more affordable only EMC’s architecture can take full advantage of the savings, helping customers to: • Increase performance two-fold in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server environments • Improve response time for VMware View™ by over 80% • Achieve up to 50% improvement in storage consumption for less active data • Improve the total cost of ownership by up-to 30% Industry Analyst Quote: “EMC once again is delivering innovations that meet the new challenges customers face today—and will in the future—while building out virtual data centers. As more and more organizations move towards a virtual data center, storage requirements are growing. According to ESG research over half (54%) of current server virtualization users estimate their organization has experienced a net increase in total storage volume since their organization implemented a server virtualization solution. EMC has a new set of powerful management interfaces that allows everyday storage functions to be offloaded, while providing the ability to proactively identify the unique and demanding needs of the virtual data center. ESG Lab testing of Unisphere and vCenter plugins has confirmed that EMC’s intuitive management interfaces can be used to centralize—and simplify— the management of storage in a virtual data center. The company is putting all of the tools in place to make the private cloud a reality for customers today.” Brian Garrett, VP ESG Lab, Enterprise Strategy Group EMC Executive Quote: “As the overall leader in midrange storage, customers look to EMC to ensure their storage environment is optimized for performance at the lowest possible cost. These latest innovations are helping to change the economics of storage and carry our customers into the future as they are continually virtualizing their environments on their journey to the private cloud. Advanced capabilities like EMC FAST and EMC FAST Cache enable customers to leverage the latest drive innovations for performance, scalability, and cost effectiveness that's unmatched in the marketplace. With this announcement EMC makes storage simple and efficient for customers.” Mark Sorenson, Senior Vice President, EMC Unified Storage Division 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, CLARiiON, Celerra and Symmetrix are registered trademarks, and VMAX is a trademark of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. VMware, VMware vCenter, VMware vSphere and VMware vMotion are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. 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