Full text of Celerra announcement.
EMC Shatters Speed Records, Raises Stakes With Enterprise-level Network-attached Storage
New Celerra Performance Ratings Extend EMC's Lead in NAS Connectivity Solutions For The ``Now'' Economy
HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2000-- Meeting the demands imposed by Internet-driven growth for rapid information sharing, EMC Corporation today announced that its EMC Celerra network file server has achieved ratings of at least triple the performance of the closest competitive NAS (network-attached storage) offerings, according to the most recent ratings posted by Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). SPEC is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant computing benchmarks (http://www.spec.org/).
EMC Celerra, the world's most highly available, scalable and fastest NAS connectivity solution, has been enhanced to increase overall system performance by more than 60% over its previous version. This enhancement dramatically improves network connectivity to an organization's information infrastructure. In the first six months of 2000, EMC revenue from NAS deployments rose nearly tenfold compared with the first half of 1999, making EMC the fastest-growing participant in this emerging market segment.
``The new economy has become the `now' economy as people demand immediate access to increasing amounts of information,'' said Jim Rothnie, EMC's Senior Vice President of Product Management. ``Today, EMC is answering that demand by providing the fastest network access available to information living on the world's most secure and highly scalable storage foundation. Celerra's high-performance capabilities work within the EMC Enterprise Storage Network to deliver an information infrastructure capable of managing the data needs of a Net-driven market.''
First introduced in October 1996, Celerra is an integrated part of the EMC Enterprise Storage Network, connecting clients on the local- or wide-area network either to a storage area network (SAN) or directly to EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems, for seamless file sharing and management.
Continued Rothnie, ``Suppliers who sell network attached storage as appliances have repeatedly made the mistake of building storage directly into the appliance itself. This may be adequate when deployed on a small scale, but it quickly turns to chaos at the multi-terabyte enterprise level. In the early '90s, forward-looking companies recognized the value of consolidating their information into one easily protected and managed storage infrastructure. Celerra's diskless architecture takes advantage of this now-accepted model by providing the benefits of NAS without the disadvantages of separate, isolated pools of data.''
Demand for Celerra's high-end, enterprise-NAS capabilities continues to surge as more businesses look to extend the value of their storage infrastructure across the public network. NonStopNet, a provider of managed Internet infrastructure based in Oakland, California has selected Celerra to provide network access to over 60 terabytes of SAN-enabled EMC Enterprise Storage. The company is deploying both Celerra and EMC Connectrix--EMC's Fibre Channel enterprise director--at points of presence (POPs) around the world.
``We spend time worrying about the technology running our customers' business so they won't have to,'' said John Yung, Vice President of Engineering at NonStopNet. ``To provide NSN customers with managed, fast and secure access to all of their information assets, NSN is deploying a robust, integrated EMC storage infrastructure that combines the benefits of both NAS and SAN with the world's most comprehensive suite of information management and protection software''
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