EMC Unity Breaks New Ground for All-Flash Storage Simplicity and Affordability

Delivers Affordable File and Block Storage for Small andMid-sized Enterprise IT Departments,Offering All-Flash Performance and Cloud-Like Simplicity for Under $18,000

New EMC Unityfamily of simple,affordable storage systems deliver enterprise capabilities, all-flash performanceand cloud-like simplicity for under $18,000
Designed specifically for small, mid-sized and departmental enterprise IT deployments
Available in all-flash array, hybrid array, software-defined and converged configurations
Order-of-magnitude leaps in performance and simplicity over the current generation of competing data storage products
Delivers a rich set of unified file and block storage services in a dense 2U footprint,unmatched by competing data storage offerings
Xpect More programs offerlifecycle maintenance price protection

EMC Corporation(NYSE:EMC) today announcedEMC Unity^™, a new family of storage systems that helps simplify and modernize the data center. Unity is the latest member of EMC’s all flash portfolio delivering highly affordable file and block storage for small and medium-sized IT departments. Unity joins EMC’s portfolio of all-flash storage arrays – XtremIO^®, VMAX^®All Flash and DSSD^™ D5™ –to ensure that, no matter what a customer needs, EMC has a purpose-built solution to fit virtually any data center use case.

Simple By Design

EMC Unity offers cloud-like proactive management and monitoring through a modern HTML5 task-oriented interface that leads the user through daily operations and integrates with VMware and Microsoft ecosystems for easy third-party management. It features new Proactive Assist^™ capabilities designed to give IT control, visibility and automated management of Unity storage systems.Unity service data can also be viewed within EMC MyService360^™,a new online service providing customers with real-timevisibility into the health and wellness of their EMC environment. MyService360provides IT with analysis of EMC product code levels, connectivity status, capacity alerts, service activity by site, and more.

Modern

With 3X the performance of EMC’s previous generation VNX^®arrays, EMC Unity can deliverup to 300K IOPS. EMC Unity is purpose-built to deliver value to customerswith predictable all-flash performanceand enterprise-class features including:

True dual-active controller architecture
Support for file, block and VVols
Snapshots and remote sync/asyncreplication
Native, controller-based encryption
New scalable file-system for transactional and traditional file use cases
VMware VASA 2.0, VAAI, VVols, VMware-Aware Integration
CompleteREST-API for automation and DevOps use cases
Integrated Copy Data Management with EMC iCDM
Zero-impact garbage collection

Flexible

Since every business has its own unique storage challenges, Unity has been designed to offer greater flexibility anddeployment options than competing data storage offerings. With the ability to scale up to 3Petabytes (PB) and up to 300K IOPS, EMC Unity is the industry’s first data storage solution for midsized ITto be available in all of the following unified configurations:

Purpose-built: Unity is available as a purpose-builtall-flash array, designed from the ground up for the flash data center. Additionally, Unity can be deployed in a hybrid configuration to meet individualbusiness requirements
Software-Defined: UnityVSA^™ offers the advanced file and block storage and datamanagement features of Unity to be easily deployed as a virtual appliance
Converged: VCE^®Vblock^™and VxBlock^™ System 350 configurations are orderable immediately

Protected

EMC believes that data protection should be an integral part of the design and deployment of every data storage environment. Unity offers tight integration with EMC Data Domain^® and EMC Data Protection Suite^™ to ensure that workloads are seamlessly protected.

All-flash Unity options also qualify for EMC’s Xpect More^™ program, offering lifetime maintenance price protection, flash endurance protection and three-year money-back warranty.

Analyst Quote

Gaurav Sharma, Research Manager-Enterprise & IPDS, IDC

“EMC unity would provide the all flash storage experience at a price that makes it affordable for all to cherish performance benefits and modernize their infrastructure. Unity has been built with grounds up approach and is expected to do well in the SMB space with the balance of cost and performance in a 2U box”.

Partner Quotes

MandarMarulkar, Vice President-Chief Information Officer, KPIT Cummins

“The specifications of Full SSD or hybrid, cloud tiering and capacity of 80TB SSD in 2U form factor make for a great product. What makes EMC Unity a far more attractive proposition is that it comes with 40% lower cost as compared to equivalent VNX or other industry storage appliances.”

Santosh Agrawal, Director, Esconet Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

“EMC strives to meet customer demands of more scalability, more performance, more features at a lower cost and lower TCO through its latest offering of Unity.”

Jack Rondoni, Vice President of Storage Networking, Brocade

“Legacy networks were not designed to achieve the maximum potential of flash. Brocade has created innovative networking solutions that can be combined with EMC storage arrays to deliver simple management, incredible performance and flexible deployment options. When leveraged together, EMC Unity and Brocade Fibre Channel and IP storage networking helps modernize the data center with the power and simplicity of flash.”

EMC Executive Quote

Rajesh Janey, President – India and SAARC at EMC

“EMC Unityoffers modern data center simplicity and all-flash performance in an affordable package. Designed specifically to get the most out of all-flash media, EMC is making it simpler and more affordable for both SMEs and enterprises to modernize their data centers.This would most definitively enable businesses to adopt more scalable storage propositions. With the launch of Unity, 2016 is truly the year of all-flash for EMC.”