New products in 2002? Reportedly the most new product introductions in the history of EMC.
Hardware is always interesting but EMC tends to keep its cards close to its chest in hardware, prefering to announce the product only once it's ready to ship. Right now, the speculation is on the next-generation Symm, next generation Celerra HighRoad and its out-of-band virtualization engine.
The most intense battle, however, is being waged in Storage Software. Here's an overview of EMC's AutoIS vs IBM's Storage Tank vs Sun's Next-Great-Storage-Thingie-After-Zero-err-JIRO.
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EMC Control Center/Open Edition (ECC/OE)
ECC/OE is the central management console EMC provides for the management of multi-vendor servers, multi-vendor storage networks and multi-vendor storage, including storage from EMC, Compaq, Hitachi Data Systems/HP/Sun, and IBM.
EMC ControlCenter/Open Edition discovers the objects in the infrastructure (H/W and software including file systems, databases, etc.). The discovered information is stored in a relational database that is shared by other ECC management applications, such as StorageScope. Once discovered, all components of the infrastructure can be monitored based on user-defined direction (rules) and operations can be automated to ‘self-heal’ based, again, on rules the customer defines.
In order to bring this level of management under one console, EMC ControlCenter/Open Edition leverages Widesky for its ‘intelligence’ of the infrastructure. This intelligence enables parts of the infrastructure to change without impacting the management tool that oversees the infrastructure.
Discovered objects, rules and so forth are written to
an Oracle database that can be accessed by storage management applications designed by EMC. By leveraging the database, other applications only focus on their particular added value (applications like SRM, Replication, etc.), instead of ‘doing it all’. The database also makes reporting a snap. Show me the top 10 fastest growing servers? What was the impact of the last ERP module rollout? These types of questions are easily answered. Expect ECC/OE to be generally available in Q1 2002.
Product Brief: EMC The Open Software Company
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The ControlCenter Open Edition tour at EMC.com is also a good guide.
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