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The Cornerstone for Growth
Today’s businesses require comprehensive data storage management and data protection solutions to protect against the loss of critical business information, ensure compliance, and facilitate the sharing of data among diverse groups of employees, partners, and customers. Whether you need network attached storage (NAS) to leverage IP connectivity, storage area networks (SAN) with fiber channel connectivity, or content addressed storage (CAS) for storage and retrieval of fixed content.

Improved Business Continuance
Information drives the success of a company. Maintaining access to this information is critical for your health or survival. Data protection begins with the appropriate storage and then moves to a solid Backup and Restore methodology. Once these are in place you can turn your attention to disaster recovery planning. Disaster recovery and business continuance requires the cooperation of all facets of your business.

Computer World works with leading storage and data protection technology providers to address information lifecycle management requirements to build a storage infrastructure that is right for your organization’s data storage needs today and scalable to address business growth and future changes in storage needs.

Storage Solutions Include:

Enabling Shared Storage (SAN)

SAN Storage Management

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

Direct Attached Storage (Tape)

Automated Tape Storage System (Library)

Data Protection System (Back and Recovery)

Enabling Shared Storage

Storage Area Networks (SAN’s) are the foundation for creating a flexible, reliable, and powerful, shared storage environment. Shared storage opens the door to predictable, manageable, cost effective growth, and is the cornerstone for highly available applications. By enabling clustered servers to access the same storage, applications can continue even when a server fails.

Our SAN solutions encompass storage systems, switches, servers, management software, multi-protocol support, services and other storage network components developed by Dell | EMC our alliance partners, and third party providers. Our SANs reduce total cost of ownership by minimizing support costs and downtime, and optimizing server and storage configurations. Our wide range of networking options includes IP (iSCSI, FCIP, iFCP) and Fibre Channel configurations. We offer SAN Solutions that provide a complete SAN implementation for you—from your server all the way to your storage.

The Dell | EMC CLARiiON family of Storage Area Networks (SANs) systems brings best-in-class performance to the mid-tier with a wide range of solutions—all based on the powerful, proven, seventh-generation CLARiiON architecture. From the entry-level CLARiiON AX100 to the top-of-the-line CLARiiON CX700, we provide the complete storage system that is right for you. If your small- to medium-sized business needs to consolidate a small number of applications, choose from the entry-level EMC CLARiiON AX series of networked storage systems. For larger organizations looking to consolidate tens to hundreds of applications on a single platform—choose from the high-performance, highly scalable EMC CLARiiON CX series.

And if you need fast, reliable backup and restore, choose from the EMC CLARiiON Disk Library series for simple-to-deploy, easy-to-use, disk-based solutions.

CLARiiON AX Series - AX100:
Entry-level EMC CLARiiON AX100 systems are powerful, easy-to-install and -manage storage consolidation solutions for Windows, Linux, NetWare, and Solaris environments. Low-cost AX100 systems come complete with a suite of integrated snapshot and storage management software. And with the AX100’s cost-effective disk technology you can scale from 480 GB to 3 TB.

CLARiiON CX Series (CX300/500/700):
The CLARiiON CX series of networked storage systems continues to deliver the industry-leading performance, availability, and scalability that customers have come to expect. And with the addition of UltraPoint Technology, the CX series extends CLARiiON’s hallmark reliability and availability to meet today’s most demanding, high-capacity requirements. With the ability to scale from 365 GB to 76 TB in a single system, the CX series offers a modular, pay-as-you-grow approach that delivers the ultimate in investment protection. CLARiiON CX customers also benefit from the mid-tier’s most advanced software capabilities for the most challenging management, availability, protection, and migration requirements:

	Easily discover, configure, manage, and monitor all aspects of your CLARiiON system with the EMC Navisphere Management Suite.

	Benefit from unique CLARiiON FLARE operating environment capabilities such as online LUN expansion and new virtual LUN technology - which enables dynamic migration of volumes within CLARiiON CX systems for improved performance and capacity utilization.

	Increase application availability while reducing backup windows with EMC SnapView.

	Ensure information is protected from both system and site failures with EMC MirrorView.

	Provide high-speed data mobility between CLARiiON CX series and other supported storage systems with EMC SAN Copy.

CLARiiON Disk Library Series:
Alternatives to traditional tape-based solutions, EMC CLARiiON Disk Libraries integrate low-cost ATA drives, tape emulation software, and powerful software functionality - for a simple-to-deploy, easy-to-use disk-based backup/restore solution. And there’s no need to retrain operators, revise procedures, or undergo expensive software upgrades and changes: CLARiiON Disk Libraries easily integrate into your current environment.

CLARiiON customers benefit from unmatched investment protection through non-disruptive hardware and software upgrades - as well as continuous delivery of new functionalities designed to work with both new and existing systems. And EMC’s industry-leading interoperability testing ensures support for a wide range of server operating environments and application and backup environments.

SAN Storage Management - EMC CLARiiON Software
SAN Storage software from EMC Clariion provides the complete management suite and includes:

Navisphere Management Suite

Information Protection and Recovery

Data Migration and Mobility

Navisphere Management Suite: Easily discover, configure, manage, and monitor all aspects of your EMC CLARiiON system with the EMC Navisphere Management Suite. Navisphere offers a simple browser-based interface to ensure anytime, anywhere access and control.

VisualSAN: With VisualSAN, even inexperienced administrators can proactively and safely manage the SAN to maintain optimal service levels. Choose the package that's right for your organization:

	VisualSAN Standard Edition steps in where the element managers for SAN devices fail to deliver. Standard Edition provides the essential end-to-end physical and logical SAN visibility and capabilities that administrators need to function efficiently.

	VisualSAN Network Edition supports higher port counts and further eases administrative burdens. It adds automatic storage-to-host provisioning and application awareness features to those of Standard Edition.

	VisualSAN Configuration Edition adds SAN configuration capture and comparison features to those in Network Edition, enabling rapid SAN problem isolation and resolution.

	VisualSAN Performance Edition adds powerful performance management features to those in Configuration Edition, giving administrators an important tool for ensuring that application availability requirements are met.

VisualSRM: VisualSRM software is specifically designed to provide centralized storage resource management (SRM) for multi-vendor, mid-tier storage environments. Ensure capacity is available when and where it's needed by actively managing your storage resources with powerful visualization tools. With VisualSRM, you can manage utilization according to thresholds you set and deploy active policies to meet the demands of your critical business applications—including Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server, Sybase, and Oracle databases.