EMC Establishes Single Node NAS Performance Record

HOPKINTON, Mass., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced a new NAS (network attached storage) benchmark highlighting the superior performance and scalability of its market leading EMC® Celerra® storage systems. The published SPEC®sfs2008 (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation) testing data measures network file system performance. The SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 results show an EMC Celerra VG8 NAS gateway -- the industry's first storage system to leverage cutting-edge 64 bit Intel Xeon® 5600 processors technology for doubled performance -- configured with a single active blade outperforming and handling a larger workload than the nearest NetApp system configured with two active NAS heads. The EMC Celerra modular architecture enables that performance to scale up to 8 blades, providing unmatched levels of performance and scalability.

Highlights:

• The Celerra VG8, built with Intel Xeon 5600 processors, was introduced in late August along with a smaller model, the EMC Celerra VG2.  A single blade in the new Celerra systems is faster than two blades in competing solutions -- which translates to handling larger workloads faster -- with fewer infrastructure requirements.
• The SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 results show a single-blade EMC Celerra system outperforming two-blade competitive systems by 13%.  This enables customers to consolidate larger workloads onto Celerra VG8 NAS heads -- including VMware virtual machines -- and scale them more efficiently than competing solutions.

EMC Celerra's high availability architecture is designed to maintain performance during failure events with a hot standby X-Blade, an industry leading capability that allows customers to determine the level of protection they desire.  The EMC approach allows customers to fully load the active X-Blades, delivering higher utilization rates.

"The new EMC Celerra systems are the first of their kind to leverage the latest 64 bit Intel Xeon 5600 processors and are ideal for VMware and other virtual environments because of the linear scalability which means performance stays high as the system grows," said Peter Thayer, Senior Director, Product Marketing, EMC Unified Storage Division.  "The combination of this processing power and advanced built-in features of Celerra make it the most advanced midrange storage system on the market and one that is helping customers on their journey to the private cloud by make their data centers more efficient and agile."

SPEC is a non-profit organization that establishes, maintains and endorses standardized benchmarks to evaluate performance for the newest generation of computing systems. Its membership comprises more than 70 leading computer hardware and software vendors, educational institutions, research organizations, and government agencies worldwide.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

EMC and Celerra are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. VMware is a registered trademark or trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. SPEC® is registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on Aug. 25, 2010. The comparison presented above is based on the best performing storage systems currently shipping by EMC Corporation and NetApp. Click here for all SPECsfs2008 results. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE EMC Corporation