EMC Details Latest Storage Offerings

EMC at its EMC World 2010 conference rolled out a slew of new offerings today all designed to help IT organizations cope with the mounting data deluge in the enterprise.

The additions to the EMC lineup include an offering that provides up to 2TB of additional cache along with data management tools to help figure out what data should reside in that cache, enhanced block-level compression for its Clariion line of storage arrays, unified management tools for its Clariion and Centera line of storage arrays, the ability to distribute data deduplication tasks across multiple backup servers, and an enhancement to the company’s backup and recovery software that boosts the speed of the backup by distributing the load when the software detects that the current task is gaining in size and complexity.

According to Mark Sorenson, senior vice president for EMC’s midrange storage organization, the company is adding more capabilities tied to policies that are designed to automate much of the storage management process. Longer term, Sorenson said the company is studying ways to leverage metadata and information available in third-party applications to further automate the storage management process at a time when storage demand is growing beyond the ability of most IT organizations to keep pace.

Fundamentally, he said, EMC is working on performance enhancements using cache, automation of tiered storage, better compression algorithms and enhanced systems management tools to help IT organizations deal with rapidly growing storage requirements in the months and years to come.