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.
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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.''
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Comments anyone?
Lynn
P.S. I went looking for the above article after JDN made a comment about EMC's announcement on the CPQ thread. |
