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Organizations' cloud infrastructure requirements are as varied as the companies themselves. This is why it is so important for their cloud infrastructure
vendor to have a broad and deep range of products and services. As each organization determines the benefit of migrating to a cloud infrastructure, EMC can
meet their needs through every phase from initial assessment to design, delivery and implementation. We are well positioned to provide fully-virtualized,
next-generation architectures enabling complete control over data and applications and faster and higher return on investment – from strategy to technology
and a complete ecosystem of partners, systems integrators and service providers.
Products and Offerings
Whether organizations are expanding their traditional data centers, embracing a virtual data center or broader cloud computing and IT-as-a-Service
models, EMC's extensive portfolio of information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, products and services provide the highest levels of
efficiency, choice and control.
EMC Information Infrastructure Products and Offerings
EMC's Information Infrastructure products, solutions and services help organizations store, manage, protect, analyze, secure and maximize the value of
their vast and ever-increasing quantities of information in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. EMC's technology expertise and broad set of high-
performance and high-availability data storage, protection, security, information management and intelligence, and data computing systems, software and
services help organizations capture and manage information to improve business agility, lower cost of ownership and enhance their competitive advantage
within traditional data centers, virtual data centers and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Our Information Infrastructure portfolio comprises three segments –
Information Storage, RSA Information Security and Information Intelligence Group.
Information Storage Segment
EMC offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of enterprise storage systems and software – scaling from entry-level to datacenter-class
systems – supporting organizations' information storage, back-up and recovery, and management strategies. As the foundation of an information infrastructure
within traditional data centers, virtual data centers and cloud-based IT infrastructures, EMC storage systems can be deployed in storage area networks (SAN),
networked attached storage (NAS), unified storage combining NAS and SAN, object storage, content addressed storage and/or direct attached storage
environments.
In 2010, EMC introduced groundbreaking enterprise storage innovations, features and capabilities that help customers build and optimize virtualized
data centers that deliver new levels of efficiency, control and choice for customers. All of EMC storage arrays are standardized on the latest Intel processor
technology, designed to consume less energy than alternative solutions and optimized for virtual environments. Through deep knowledge of VMware
technology, EMC now has more than 70 different integration points between EMC and VMware products. This is a key competitive differentiator for EMC in
helping customers realize the full potential of cloud computing and IT-as-a-Service.
EMC entered 2011 with a brand new unified storage platform – the EMC VNX family – offering breakthrough simplicity, efficiency, affordability and
power. The VNX family consolidates the industry-leading features and functionality of EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra into a single, powerful family of
unified storage arrays that scale from entry-level to datacenter-class systems. The VNXe series is designed specifically for small- and medium-sized
businesses, department level storage solutions for enterprise, and remote or branch offices, combining breakthrough simplicity with advanced performance,
availability and efficiency benefits. EMC continues to lead the market with new technologies that simplify and efficiently manage enterprise storage arrays,
helping customers exploit the benefits of solid state disk (SSD) technology.
2010 was a year of innovation for EMC leading up to the introduction of the VNX family. During that time, EMC made significant advancements to the
EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) suite and EMC Fast Cache software, which collectively offer the most powerful automated storage tiering for
performance optimization and dramatic cost efficiencies to customers of all sizes. EMC also introduced new levels of midrange storage efficiency and
simplicity with EMC Unisphere, a new management interface for EMC CLARiiON, EMC Celerra and the new EMC VNX family.
In 2010, EMC also introduced EMC VPLEX, a new storage platform that will enable organizations to move thousands of virtual machines and
petabytes of information non-disruptively over thousands of miles, schedule daily batch processes in locations with lower energy costs, easily shift IT
operations away from regional disasters and dynamically balance workloads as the business day progresses around the globe.
Central to its mission to help organizations migrate to next-generation disk-based backup and recovery systems, in 2010, EMC further strengthened its
fast-growing Backup Recovery Systems Division, which houses its EMC NetWorker and EMC Disk
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