NEC Will Manufacture a SMB Product for EMC
In fact, it's the recently announced CLARiiON AX4 (also sold as iStorage E1 for NEC)
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on January 18, 2008 at 3:05 pm
NEC
Corporation and EMC Corporation launched a new jointly developed
networked storage system. The system marks the first result in data
storage of the strategic alliance formed by the companies in April last
year. NEC and EMC collaborated on elements of product development, and
NEC will manufacture the product for sale by both companies on a
worldwide basis. NEC will market the new product as iStorage E1, while
EMC will sell the system worldwide as the EMC CLARiiON AX4 and in Japan as the EMC CLARiX AX4.
At
less than one million yen, the new system represents groundbreaking
entry-level storage, provides high levels of flexibility, scalability
and ease-of-use, and is designed for small and medium-sized enterprises
or businesses expanding their information infrastructure into branch
offices.
Leveraging the benefits of the joint collaboration, NEC
intends to expand its storage product line, iStorage, and to reduce
production costs through joint development and increased production, as
well as global expansion. Through its strategic alliance with NEC, EMC
aims to increase its worldwide market share in entry-level and SMB
storage.
iSCSI allows users to use existing Ethernet, making
networking and operation easier and more economical compared to a
conventional system using Fibre Channel. Due to its outstanding
cost-effective performance and high operability, use of iSCSI is
expected to increase rapidly in both Japan and abroad. In light of
this, both NEC and EMC plan to introduce new iSCSI solutions through
extensive marketing.
The new product can be connected to up to 64
servers. It will also support heterogeneous OS environments, which
would include Windows, Linux, UNIX, and VMware ESX servers,
allowing flexible scalability. Furthermore, the new product can also be
connected with servers including applications such as Microsoft
Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server,
Oracle and SAP. In addition, the new product can mount up to 60 SAS or
SATA hard disk drives, allowing it to be optimized for business areas
where unstructured data, such as documents or images, is expected to
increase. The product also realizes high availability and data
protection capabilities by the two-layered controllers.
Starting
with this new product, NEC and EMC will continue to collaborate on
future storage products that will benefit their customers worldwide.
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