EMC blending product lines

摘要

Having spent much of the past year bolstering its software portfolio, EMC will return to its bread and butter next week with a series of storage hardware announcements aimed at giving customers greater flexibility, capacity and performance. The company is expected to announce Feb. 9: 1. A set of Symmetrix storage arrays called the DMX2, which have twice as many drives and processors as previous DMXs and promise higher performance. 2. A series of midrange Clariion arrays - the CX300, CX500 and CX700 - that EMC says are faster but not more expensive than previous versions. 3. New replication, back-up and recovery and snapshot capabilities for the Clariions. 4. One of the first implementations of the Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S), a standard for managing heterogeneous storage.