IDG News Service - EMC Corp. today rolled out two new network-attached storage (NAS) devices and extended its Smarts IP root-cause diagnosis software to NAS systems.
The new appliances include the Celerra NS704, which can scale up to 48TB. Pricing starts at $261,000 for 2.2TB of storage capacity. For smaller shops, EMC rolled out the NS350, which can scale up to 10TB and supports both Fibre Channel and Advanced Technology Attachment drives. Pricing starts around $47,000 for 1TB of capacity.
Both devices include NAS and Internet SCSI connectivity and are Windows-certified.
On the software side, EMC debuted Smarts IP Availability Manager for NAS, which can detect NAS systems as IP devices and diagnose root-cause failures in the IP network. It works with EMC's Celerra systems as well as storage filers from EMC rival Network Appliance Inc., according to EMC officials.
The software is based on technology EMC gained in late 2004 through its acquisition of System Management Arts Inc. (Smarts), an event-automation and real-time network systems software maker.
Pricing for the new software starts at $50,000. EMC also said it plans to expand the software to support SAN devices.
In a separate announcement, EMC said it had teamed up with Dell Inc., Intel Corp. and LSI Logic Corp. to form a nonprofit group aimed at driving standardization in low-end external storage.
The Storage Bridge Bay Working Group will focus first on developing specifications for standardizing external disk subsystem technologies. Its goal is to bring storage technologies traditionally geared for the enterprise to smaller businesses, according to a statement today.
Other storage vendors joining the group include Adaptec Inc., Aristos Logic Corp., Astute Networks Inc., Dot Hill Systems Corp., Neterion Corp., Rasilient Systems Inc., Seagate Technology LLC and Xyratex Group Ltd.
An explosion of data and the availability of storage systems that can help businesses tackle data protection drove a record year of growth for the disk storage systems market in 2005, according to market research firm IDC.
External disk storage system sales worldwide jumped nearly 18% to $4.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2005 from the prior year-ago quarter, and for the year grew 12% to $16 billion from the prior year, Framingham, Mass.-based IDC said.
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