EMC claims
to have achieved a breakthrough in mid-range storage performance,
scalability and economics with its new CLARiiON UltraScale
architecture and CX3 series of networked storage
systems.
Targeted at
mid-size companies, the CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series enables the
consolidation of multiple tiers of information onto a single array
while optimising performance and total cost of ownership.
The CLARiiON
UltraScale architecture is said to be the storage industry's first
available platform with full end-to-end 4 gigabit-per-second Fibre
Channel technology. It features up to double the performance and
capacity of its predecessor and the company is confident that it
can enable customers to consolidate the workload of two competitive
systems onto a single new.
EMC says the new
architecture redefines mid-range storage economics by allowing
customers to seamlessly upgrade from prior generations of CLARiiON,
run existing management and protection software and scale single
system capacity and performance up to 239 terabytes.
The EMC CLARiiON
UltraScale CX3-20, CX3-40 and CX3-80 models are available now.