EMC expands world's broadest NAS family with wave of new mid-tier products and capabilities
Extends NAS lead with the most choice and flexibility for mid-tier networked storage needs
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage systems, software and services, today announced a series of new mid-tier network-attached storage (NAS) products and enhancements. With today's announcement, EMC is further expanding the world's broadest NAS product family and extending its lead by offering the most choice and flexibility for customers' mid-tier networked storage needs. Today's announcement demonstrates EMC's continued innovation and ability to extend NAS features and functionality to a broader customer base at lower price points.
David Donatelli, EMC's Executive Vice President of Storage Platforms Operations, said, "The NAS market has undergone significant change and is now demanding high-end NAS capabilities in the mid-tier. With today's announcement, EMC is answering the call. EMC gives customers the most choice and flexibility as they build out their networked storage infrastructures to address both current and future business requirements."
Today's announcements include:
* NS600G and NS600GS - The new Celerra NAS gateways enable customers to easily and cost-effectively integrate NAS functionality into existing CLARiiON CX600 and CX400 storage systems. The gateways help customers lower costs through increased storage utilisation, and they dramatically reduce complexity and management by enabling SAN and NAS functionality to co-exist in a single system. The new gateway is offered in single- (NS600GS) and dual-data mover (NS600G) configurations.
* NS600S - The new entry-level model for the mid-tier Celerra NS600 series includes a single data mover, providing an attractive entry point for mid-tier NAS applications that initially do not require the service and performance levels of larger configurations. The NS600S provides customers with a simple, online upgrade to a high-availability (dual-data mover) configuration. NS600S delivers 35-60 per cent better price performance than Network Appliance's comparable F825, FAS940 and FAS960 offerings. Specifically, the NS600S delivers higher performance than the Network Appliance FAS960 and is priced lower than the FAS940.
* ATA Drive Support - High-capacity, lower-cost ATA disk drives are now available in both integrated Celerra NS600 and NS600G systems and Celerra CNS clustered environments. Every Celerra model now offers the economic advantages of ATA disk drives for new applications such as backup to disk from partners including: CommVault, Computer Associates, LEGATO and Veritas.
* EMC NetWin 200 - The new NetWin 200 NAS system is now generally available. NetWin 200 couples the simplicity of Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 with EMC's proven CLARiiON CX200 networked storage platform. NetWin 200 is ideal for those customers operating predominantly in a Microsoft Windows environment who require seamless integration of NAS functionality, enabling them to more cost-effectively manage, share and protect business-critical data.
Mike Sink, IT Operations Manager, Kichler Lighting, the largest decorative lighting fixture and lamp company in the world, said, "The NS600G is an exciting addition from EMC, the one-stop-shop for networked storage. We will be able to leverage the new NAS capability to provide IP connectivity to our existing CLARiiON CX600 networked storage infrastructure. This enhancement, combined with the ability to intermix both Fibre Channel and ATA drive technology behind the NS600G, offers us even greater levels of deployment flexibility."
Dr. Helmut Beck, Vice President of Storage at Fujitsu Siemens Computers, said, "Today's announcement further enhances the combined value, flexibility and investment protection that EMC and Fujitsu Siemens Computers are delivering to FibreCAT customers. The new NS600S provides an attractively priced entry point into EMC's NAS product line. Because it can be easily and non-disruptively upgraded to a highly available configuration, our customers can deploy it and grow with it as their business needs change."
Steve Kenniston, Technology Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group, said, "Over the past few months EMC has made a number of strategic announcements that hit directly at where the mid-tier is headed. Products such as the new NS600S and NetWin 200 deliver a simple to manage NAS solution at a low entry cost. Additionally, with the NAS and SAN convergence trend, the NS600G helps customers better utilise their existing EMC storage."
Pete Werner, President of Storage Security and Network Consulting, said, "We are excited about EMC's new mid-tier NAS products, and particularly with the NS600G, as this gateway will allow us to easily integrate our CLARiiON into a NAS environment while delivering flexibility and investment protection."
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing automated networked storage solutions to help organisations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
EMC and CLARiiON are registered trademarks, and Celerra and NetWin are trademarks of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) risks associated with strategic investments and acquisitions, including the challenges and costs of closing, integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies associated with the announced plan to acquire LEGATO Systems, Inc.; (ii) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (iii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iv) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings, and rapid technological and market change; (v) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (vi) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures; (vii) component quality and availability; (viii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (ix) war or acts of terrorism; (x) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; and (xii) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
David Donatelli, EMC's Executive Vice President of Storage Platforms Operations, said, "The NAS market has undergone significant change and is now demanding high-end NAS capabilities in the mid-tier. With today's announcement, EMC is answering the call. EMC gives customers the most choice and flexibility as they build out their networked storage infrastructures to address both current and future business requirements."
Today's announcements include:
* NS600G and NS600GS - The new Celerra NAS gateways enable customers to easily and cost-effectively integrate NAS functionality into existing CLARiiON CX600 and CX400 storage systems. The gateways help customers lower costs through increased storage utilisation, and they dramatically reduce complexity and management by enabling SAN and NAS functionality to co-exist in a single system. The new gateway is offered in single- (NS600GS) and dual-data mover (NS600G) configurations.
* NS600S - The new entry-level model for the mid-tier Celerra NS600 series includes a single data mover, providing an attractive entry point for mid-tier NAS applications that initially do not require the service and performance levels of larger configurations. The NS600S provides customers with a simple, online upgrade to a high-availability (dual-data mover) configuration. NS600S delivers 35-60 per cent better price performance than Network Appliance's comparable F825, FAS940 and FAS960 offerings. Specifically, the NS600S delivers higher performance than the Network Appliance FAS960 and is priced lower than the FAS940.
* ATA Drive Support - High-capacity, lower-cost ATA disk drives are now available in both integrated Celerra NS600 and NS600G systems and Celerra CNS clustered environments. Every Celerra model now offers the economic advantages of ATA disk drives for new applications such as backup to disk from partners including: CommVault, Computer Associates, LEGATO and Veritas.
* EMC NetWin 200 - The new NetWin 200 NAS system is now generally available. NetWin 200 couples the simplicity of Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 with EMC's proven CLARiiON CX200 networked storage platform. NetWin 200 is ideal for those customers operating predominantly in a Microsoft Windows environment who require seamless integration of NAS functionality, enabling them to more cost-effectively manage, share and protect business-critical data.
Mike Sink, IT Operations Manager, Kichler Lighting, the largest decorative lighting fixture and lamp company in the world, said, "The NS600G is an exciting addition from EMC, the one-stop-shop for networked storage. We will be able to leverage the new NAS capability to provide IP connectivity to our existing CLARiiON CX600 networked storage infrastructure. This enhancement, combined with the ability to intermix both Fibre Channel and ATA drive technology behind the NS600G, offers us even greater levels of deployment flexibility."
Dr. Helmut Beck, Vice President of Storage at Fujitsu Siemens Computers, said, "Today's announcement further enhances the combined value, flexibility and investment protection that EMC and Fujitsu Siemens Computers are delivering to FibreCAT customers. The new NS600S provides an attractively priced entry point into EMC's NAS product line. Because it can be easily and non-disruptively upgraded to a highly available configuration, our customers can deploy it and grow with it as their business needs change."
Steve Kenniston, Technology Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group, said, "Over the past few months EMC has made a number of strategic announcements that hit directly at where the mid-tier is headed. Products such as the new NS600S and NetWin 200 deliver a simple to manage NAS solution at a low entry cost. Additionally, with the NAS and SAN convergence trend, the NS600G helps customers better utilise their existing EMC storage."
Pete Werner, President of Storage Security and Network Consulting, said, "We are excited about EMC's new mid-tier NAS products, and particularly with the NS600G, as this gateway will allow us to easily integrate our CLARiiON into a NAS environment while delivering flexibility and investment protection."
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing automated networked storage solutions to help organisations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
EMC and CLARiiON are registered trademarks, and Celerra and NetWin are trademarks of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) risks associated with strategic investments and acquisitions, including the challenges and costs of closing, integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies associated with the announced plan to acquire LEGATO Systems, Inc.; (ii) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (iii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iv) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings, and rapid technological and market change; (v) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (vi) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures; (vii) component quality and availability; (viii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (ix) war or acts of terrorism; (x) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; and (xii) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
