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EMC, Intel
Form OEM, Technology Relationship
News Source : Intel
SAN DIEGO, Apr 05 2006 (Korea
Newswire)-- EMC Corporation and Intel Corporation
today(April 4, 2006) announced a multi-year storage original
equipment manufacturer (OEM) and expanded technology
agreement focused on the growing storage requirements of
small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).
As part of the agreement, Intel will offer a networked
storage system based on the EMC? CLARiiON? AX150, introduced
yesterday, to Intel resellers and distributors worldwide.
Resellers will offer the easy-to-use, cost-effective system
to customers under their own private brands and labels.
Intel has more than 160,000 distributors and resellers
around the world, with a strong presence in Asia-Pacific,
Eastern Europe and South America.
EMC CLARiiON networked storage systems utilize Intel
processors to achieve price performance leadership in the
midrange storage segment. As part of this relationship, EMC
and Intel have agreed to future collaboration that will help
Intel enhance its processors to meet the increasing
requirements of networked storage systems and help EMC to
enhance its storage architectures and identify future market
requirements.
“EMC and Intel are sharply focused on driving platform
innovation and efficiencies that solve the IT challenges of
small and medium businesses in today’s competitive business
environment,” said Hans Geyer, vice president and general
manager of Intel’s Storage Group. “By working with EMC to
deliver standards-based storage platforms, we are bringing
leading enterprise storage value and technology to Intel
customers worldwide.”
Joel Schwartz, EMC senior vice president and general
manager, EMC CLARiiON, added, “We expect that the reach of
Intel’s channel will help give EMC an edge in serving a much
broader set of SMBs in emerging markets around the globe.
This collaboration also provides the foundation for future
engineering collaboration between EMC and Intel for this
growing market segment.”
The Intel SSR212PP Storage System based on EMC CLARiiON
AX150 technology is expected to be available from
participating Intel channel members worldwide beginning in
May. Featuring up to 12 serial ATA II (SATA II) disk drives
in a 2U rack mountable enclosure, the Intel SSR212PP
networked storage system can support a maximum capacity of
six terabytes in a single array. Offered in single- or
dual-controller configurations, this easy-to-install storage
system provides SMBs with advanced features and the security
of redundant power and cooling functionality. It is
available for iSCSI or Fibre Channel for flexible direct
attached storage (DAS) or storage area network (SAN)
connectivity.
This is the latest in a recent series of collaborative
activities between EMC and Intel. In March, Intel and
VMware, an EMC subsidiary, announced a broad collaboration
to bring the benefits of virtualization to enterprises and
new market segments. Also, earlier in March, it was
announced that EMC and Intel were two of several founding
members of the Storage Bridge Bay Working Group. Storage
Bridge Bay is a new open platform for storage innovations to
benefit customers through standardization.
