EMC announces 40 new storage products

By Kahuwa Jyoti Das, SiliconIndia   |   Thursday, 05 May 2011, 18:23 IST
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Bangalore: EMC Corporation, an information infrastructure solution provider, announced the launch of 40 new storage products and solutions in India. They have announced 15 products for the small and medium business (SMB) sectors. The products include a new family of unified storage systems, EMC VNX, for SMBs, new unified systems for the midrange, new software for its high-end systems and new disk-based backup and recovery and archiving systems. The starting price of the VNXe series is 5.6 lakh. It is designed specifically for SMBs, department level storage solutions for enterprise, and remote or branch offices. It has the ability of the storage provision in for hundreds of Microsoft Exchange Server mailboxes, or a 1TB VMware data store, in less-than 2 minutes. It provides automated diagnosis, service, and technical support information in a single click. EMC introduced the new EMC Symmetrix VMAX software technologies that are capable of supporting petabytes of information and up to 5 million virtual machines. The company also announced new Data Domain backup and archiving capabilities including new systems. The systems are 7 times faster than the competition, providing the industry's fastest backups and new Data Domain Archiver systems. Manoj Chugh, President, EMC India and SAARC, said that with VNXe, EMC has designed an entirely new storage array built specifically for the SMB segment, which does not have the luxury of in-house storage experts. EMC VNXe can be installed in minutes and configured in seconds. By offering twice the capacity at half the cost of most current competitive alternatives, it is a compelling choice for organizations that are under pressure to manage digital information deluge and deliver efficient IT services. EMC had also sponsored an IDC study in 2010 titled "The Digital Universe in India". The study highlighted the tremendous growth of digital information in India. It pointed that digital information in India will grow from 40,000 petabytes to 2.3 million petabytes twice as fast as the worldwide rate, over the next decade (2010 to 2020). It also highlighted that customers will face increasing challenges to store, protect and manage ever growing digital information.