EMC Corporation has announced several cost-effective and easy-to-use solutions to help its customers more effectively consolidate, back up, archive and protect their information.

EMC introduced the CLARiiON CX3-10 UltraScale networked storage system, a new entry point into its series of full 4 Gbps storage arrays; new EMC RecoverPoint/SE software, an entry point for network-based asynchronous replication in mid-tier storage environments; and three solutions to help mid-sized businesses consolidate, back up, archive and protect their Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Oracle RAC 10g environments.

An entry point into the CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series of full 4Gbps networked storage systems, the new CLARiiON CX3-10 system can scale to 30 TB of capacity. It features combined fiber channel and iSCSI connectivity within the same array, providing customers with deployment flexibility and efficient storage consolidation. Customers deploying networked storage for the first time can use iSCSI for applications such as Microsoft Exchange and can use Fibre Channel for more bandwidth-intensive applications such as data warehouses built on Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server.

The CLARiiON CX3-10 FC/iSCSI system joins the CX3-20, CX3-40 and CX3-80 models in supporting all CLARiiON array-based software functionality, including data management, replication and mobility. The CLARiiON CX3-10 system also inherits all of the ease-of-use capabilities of the EMC Navisphere management software including Navisphere Task Bar, Navisphere Quality of Service Manager and Virtual LUN technology. With the CLARiiON CX3- 10 system, customers are able to mix Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives in the same array to meet tiered storage requirements or deploy an all-SATA configuration for a low-cost entry point with maximum capacity.

The new RecoverPoint/SE software is part of the RecoverPoint family and specifically designed for network-based replication between any two CLARiiON CX and/or CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale systems. This data protection solution provides customers with any point-in-time recovery of their data from events including database corruption, server failures, software errors, viruses, end-user errors and other events that can take down the operations of an entire data center or IT facility.

With RecoverPoint/SE, CLARiiON customers can define policies to manage their recovery time objectives across a wide range of key business applications, all from a single, easy-to-use interface. Customers enjoy ongoing cost savings are realized through the optional RecoverPoint/SE WAN bandwidth compression module that can deliver up to 10 times bandwidth reduction across long-distance WAN connections. In addition, RecoverPoint/SE offers coordinated and consistent recovery of related Windows applications such as Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server, enabling organizations to restart applications from the same point in time, resulting in a simpler and faster return to normal operations.

The EMC Reference Architectures and Assessment Services for Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 provide EMC partners with documented blueprints and best practices for implementing the most cost-effective consolidation, backup and disaster recovery solutions for midsize customers. The EMC solution for Exchange 2003 also helps EMC partners deliver proven archiving solutions to help mid-sized customers manage information growth. The solutions combine the EMC CLARiiON CX3 networked storage system and combinations of EMC's information management software for backup/recovery, archiving and data protection. These EMC best practices also address how to incorporate important Microsoft application functionality to complete the solution.

The EMC Reference Architecture and Assessment Service for Oracle RAC 10g helps EMC partners speed deployments and improve their customers' total cost of ownership while helping them easily and affordably consolidate, backup, and protect information. These solutions combine the EMC CLARiiON CX3 networked storage system, EMC's rich replication and backup/recovery software with relevant Oracle technologies. The EMC Assessment for Oracle RAC10g helps EMC partners customize and optimize each solution for different application and database workloads and enhance ease of deployment by leveraging documented EMC best practices and methodologies.