CLARiiON CX4 delivers up to twice the application performance and twice the scalability of the market-leading CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series. The new CLARiiON CX4 series consists of four new models—the CLARiiON CX4-120, CX4-240, CX4-480, and CX4-960. The model numbers refer to the maximum number of drives supported on each system.

All CLARiiON CX4 series models come pre-configured with Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity, which allows customers to choose the best connectivity for their applications and provides you with significant competitive advantage over traditional (HP, IBM) and newer (Compellent) competitors.

The New CLARiiON CX4 Series
EMC announces industry-changing midrange storage innovation with the CLARiiON CX4 series—the fourth-generation CLARiiON CX storage platform. The CLARiiON CX4 series extends EMC’s leadership in midrange storage and delivers…

  • Flash drives offering Tier “0” storage with 30 times more IOPS

  • UltraFlex technology for dual protocol connectivity, online expansion via IO modules, and readiness for future technologies—such as 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel and 10 Gb/s iSCSI

  • CLARiiON Virtual Provisioning for increased utilization, just-in-time capacity allocation, simplified provisioning and capacity planning

  • Multi-core Intel Xeon processors, increased memory, and 64-bit FLARE, providing up to twice the performance and scale, and the foundation for more advanced software functionality

  • Low power SATA II drives, Adaptive Cooling, and disk drive Spin Downnew energy-efficiency options for customers

  • Concurrent local and remote replication (CLR) via the integrated RecoverPoint splitter that simplifies CLARiiON CX4 series deployments

These advancements and innovations provide crucial capabilities that today cannot be matched by any competitor, delivering significant impact to your customer’s business, including…

    • Lowest cost of ownership
    • Best energy efficiencies
    • Industry-leading availability and protection
    • Storage optimized for virtualized environments
    • Unsurpassed Scalability

Feature

Availability

CLARiiON CX4 series systems

August 2008

CLARiiON Flash drives

October 2008

CLARiiON Virtual Provisioning

Data-in-place upgrades

Disk drive Spin Down

2009

 

Click here for Official Press Release (including Customer testimony)

Capabilities

EMC

HP

IBM

NetApp

3PAR

Five 9s availability

Yes

No

No

No

No

Fibre Channel and iSCSI

Yes

Yes, via bridge

Yes, via OEM

Yes

Yes

Nondisruptive in-the-box mobility

Yes

No

No

No

Yes

64-bit operating system, multi-core processors

Yes

No

No

Yes, but not all models

No

Thin Provisioning

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

Flash drives

Yes

No

No

No

No

Expandable, hot-pluggable, modular IO

Yes

No

No

No

No

Low-power SATA drives

Yes

No

No

No

No

Disk drive Spin Down

Yes

No

No

No

No

©   Copyright  2008  AIS N.V. All Rights Reserved.