LAS VEGAS, May 2, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC WORLD
News Highlights
- New EMC Unity family of simple, affordable storage systems
deliver enterprise capabilities, all-flash performance and
cloud-like simplicity for under $18,000
- Designed specifically for small, mid-sized and departmental
enterprise IT deployments
- Available in all-flash array, hybrid array, software-defined
and converged configurations
- Order-of-magnitude leaps in performance and simplicity over the
current generation of competing data storage products
- Delivers a rich set of unified file and block storage services
in a dense 2U footprint, unmatched by competing data storage
offerings
- Xpect More programs offer lifecycle maintenance price
protection
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EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced
EMC Unity™, a new family of storage systems that helps
simplify and modernize the data center. Unity is the latest member
of EMC's all flash portfolio delivering highly affordable file and
block storage for small and medium-sized IT departments. Unity
joins EMC's portfolio of all-flash storage arrays –
XtremIO®, VMAX® All Flash and
DSSD™ D5™ – to ensure that, no matter what a customer
needs, EMC has a purpose-built solution to fit virtually any data
center use case.
Simple By Design
EMC Unity offers cloud-like proactive
management and monitoring through a modern HTML5 task-oriented
interface that leads the user through daily operations and
integrates with VMware and Microsoft ecosystems for easy
third-party management. It features new Proactive
Assist™ capabilities designed to give IT control,
visibility and automated management of Unity storage systems. Unity
service data can also be viewed within EMC
MyService360™, a new online service providing customers
with real-time visibility into the health and wellness of their EMC
environment. MyService360 provides IT with analysis of EMC product
code levels, connectivity status, capacity alerts, service activity
by site, and more.
Modern
With 3X the performance of EMC's previous
generation VNX® arrays, EMC Unity can deliver up to 300K
IOPS. EMC Unity is purpose-built to deliver value to customers with
predictable all-flash performance and enterprise-class features
including:
- True dual-active controller architecture
- Support for file, block and VVols
- Snapshots and remote sync/async replication
- Native, controller-based encryption
- New scalable file-system for transactional and traditional file
use cases
- VMware VASA 2.0, VAAI, VVols, VMware-Aware Integration
- Complete REST-API for automation and DevOps use cases
- Integrated Copy Data Management with EMC iCDM
- Zero-impact garbage collection
Flexible
Since every business has its own unique
storage challenges, Unity has been designed to offer greater
flexibility and deployment options than competing data storage
offerings. With the ability to scale up to 3 Petabytes (PB) and up
to 300K IOPS, EMC Unity is the industry's first data storage
solution for midsized IT to be available in all of the following
unified configurations:
- Purpose-built: Unity is available as a purpose-built
all-flash array, designed from the ground up for the flash data
center. Additionally, Unity can be deployed in a hybrid
configuration to meet individual business requirements
- Software-Defined: UnityVSA™ offers the
advanced file and block storage and data management features of
Unity to be easily deployed as a virtual appliance
- Converged: VCE® Vblock™ and
VxBlock™ System 350 configurations are orderable
immediately
Affordable
Designed for all flash, Unity provides some
of the best flash economics in the industry, starting under
$18,000. Additional inline data
services will be added in the future to further lower effective
$/GB cost. Unity also introduces a new level of affordability for
customers deploying hybrid arrays, with prices starting under
$10,000. Unity provides incredible
unified storage density, with up to 80TB of all-flash storage in a
dense, 2U array.
Protected
EMC believes that data protection should be
an integral part of the design and deployment of every data storage
environment. Unity offers tight integration with EMC Data
Domain® and EMC Data Protection Suite™ to
ensure that workloads are seamlessly protected.
All-flash Unity options also qualify for EMC's Xpect
More™ program, offering lifetime maintenance price
protection, flash endurance protection and three-year money-back
warranty.
Availability
EMC Unity is available for purchase
today. All-flash configurations start at under $18,000. Hybrid array configurations start at
under $10,000.
Customer Quote
Sean
Wedige, CTO, Global Enterprise Solutions at
Rackspace
"At Rackspace, we deploy a lot of storage arrays - we have to in
order to support our customers' growing needs for storage. And it's
business critical for us to do that quickly, simply and without
downtime. Unity's simple user interface and inflight patching means
we can count on the fingers of one hand the number of clicks needed
for provisioning, and can help ensure we never have to come offline
to add more capacity. Unity provides us with a new level of
flexibility and affordability; benefits that we're then able to
pass on to our customers."
Analyst Quote
Mark
Peters, Practice Director and Senior Analyst, ESG
"Businesses with midsized IT needs don't want a stripped-down or
supposedly-simplified enterprise storage array – instead, such
businesses need a solution that is built from the ground up with
their needs in mind. With Unity, EMC is combining its decade of
flash expertise with its trusted midsized storage market knowledge
and leadership in order to deliver an all-flash solution that that
has all of the features expected in the enterprise, but packaged
affordably to meet midsized IT needs."
Partner Quotes
Jack
Rondoni, Vice President of Storage Networking,
Brocade
"Legacy networks were not designed to achieve the
maximum potential of flash. Brocade has created innovative
networking solutions that can be combined with EMC storage arrays
to deliver simple management, incredible performance and flexible
deployment options. When leveraged together, EMC Unity and Brocade
Fibre Channel and IP storage networking helps modernize the data
center with the power and simplicity of flash."
Vinu Thomas, Chief Technology Officer, Presidio
"As our customers tackle big data apps, data lakes, data centers
and hybrid cloud, it's crucial to have multiprotocol storage
systems that can deal with all types of data efficiently. That's
what EMC Unity delivers on. It also provides more density and
performance at an affordable price, along with the simplicity and
reliability IT professionals need as they modernize their data
centers."
EMC Executive Quote
Jeff
Boudreau, Senior Vice President and General Manager,
Mid-Range Solutions, Core Technologies Division at
EMC
"EMC Unity offers modern data center simplicity and
all-flash performance in an affordable package. Designed
specifically to get the most out of all-flash media, EMC is making
it simpler and more affordable for both SMEs and enterprises to
modernize their data centers. With the launch of Unity, 2016 is
truly the year of all-flash for EMC."
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in
enabling businesses and service providers to transform their
operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this
transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products
and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing,
helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their
most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted and
cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found
at www.EMC.com.
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