____EMC Adds Disaster Recovery to Low-End Storage Line____
EMC Corp. is adding high-end disaster-recovery capability to
its low-end storage server line. Also, later this year EMC
will ship switch technology that will let customers access
EMC Symmetrix storage and other vendors' storage from the
same server.
EMC Celerra File Server version 2.0 is a network-attached
storage system that interacts with EMC's high-end Symmetrix
storage server line across long distances. New in version
2.0 of Celerra File Server, which is available now for
$307,000, is the ability to store and move Unix and Windows
NT files simultaneously. Also, Celerra File Server 2.0
supports EMC's disaster-recovery feature, the Symmetrix
Remote Data Facility. SRDF, which lets customers maintain
copies of data without shutting down the system, was
previously available only on Symmetrix servers.
Celerra's price point gives users cheaper alternatives for
disaster recovery. "Now many more organizations can have
disaster tolerance between remote Celerra devices and the
Symmetrix mother ship," says Brad Day, a senior analyst with
Giga Information Group. "Customers don't have to pay a
premium for strategic IT capabilities."
Customers will benefit further by year's end when, EMC says,
a single server will interact with data stored on Symmetrix,
Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems storage devices
via the EMC Connectrix switch. EMC, through its McData
switch-manufacturing subsidiary, is testing interoperability
among all these storage systems. "Any storage system
compliant with Fibre Channel standards will be able to
connect to our [Symmetrix-based] Enterprise Storage Network
through Connectrix," says Jim Rothnie, EMC's senior VP and
chief marketing technical officer. -- Martin J. Garvey |
