EMC VMAX With CDP

EMC Corporation is delivering more data protection with updates to its VMAX enterprise storage, a new frame-based licensing model for its VPLEX virtual storage making it more accessible to midrange customers, and a new version of its RecoverPoint that delivers powerful new integration with EMC SRDF.

The news is the first wave in a set of new technologies from EMC as the company readies for EMC World 2013 in Las Vegas, NE.

More Data Protection
Today, the world’s most mission-critical data centers trust EMC with their most important data, with 94% of Fortune 50 companies, and 90% of the 20 largest banks relying on VMAX for >99.999% uptime. With new SRDF and RecoverPoint 4.0 integration, VMAX is a tier 1 storage array offering simultaneous CDP and remote copies on the same LUN. Customers can now recover every write, and at any point-in-time between copies. This means that customers can recover from operational errors as well as physical failures on the same data. Prior to this integration, customers could use SRDF and RecoverPoint on the same VMAX system, but not on the same volume. With this integration EMC marries the two business continuance technologies to simplify data protection for the world’s most mission-critical data centers.

In addition, RecoverPoint 4.0 is more powerful. It offers increased scale, flexibility and capacity to protect more mission-critical applications. The new version is capable of protecting 7X more data, delivers a 4X increase in the number of protected volumes to over 8,000 volumes per cluster, and offers expanded asynchronous throughput by over 60% to 400MB/s.

More Accessible to the Midrange
This year, RecoverPoint will surpass 100-million run hours, protecting over 800PB of mission-critical information for customers. With 4.0, EMC is offering a new software-only option (called vRPA) for VNX storage arrays. This software-only option enables VNX customers to deploy RecoverPoint functionality on existing infrastructure, thereby simplifying deployment and maximizing their existing infrastructure, saving VNX customers up to 60% on their replication investment.

In addition, EMC is now offering a new VPLEX frame-based licensing model for VNX‚ saving customers up to 50% on their VPLEX investment. With strong adoption during its three years on the market, customers trust VPLEX to achieve continuous availability of their mission-critical application environments. With the new licensing model, EMC is building upon and extending that continuous availability to a broader audience.

Brian Gallagher, president, enterprise storage division, EMC, said: "As customers continue to transform their data centers, EMC continues to innovate and deliver the world’s most trusted, powerful and smart storage solutions. Customers want a trusted technology partner that has both a long-term vision and the ability execute. In the last three years, EMC has delivered seven major updates and over 100 new features to the VMAX family. It’s this marriage of vision and innovation that is driving our growth‚ including double-digit growth across VMAX, VPLEX and RecoverPoint. This news is a continuum of EMC VMAX delivering the world’s most trusted storage and data protection."