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EMC Hosts A 'Record-Breaking' Event: Page 2 of 2

EMC has spent the first couple of weeks of 2011 building what it hoped was excitement for the "Record Breaking Event" here in New York on Tuesday. After receiving a cardboard broken record via FedEx, and innumerable e-mails, I braved the freezing rain to attend the dog and pony show. Some of the announcements indicate that EMC gets that it has to stop promoting the storage priesthood and make its systems more accessible.
Howard Marks
January 20, 2011

The low-end VNXe, which starts at $9,500 MSRP, integrates NFS/CIFS and iSCSI into a single, or optional, dual redundant controller, and should be a strong competitor to the NetApp FAS2000 line. I think it's a nice step up from the Clariion AX series, though some may miss the Fibre Channel interface option. In my opinion, SMB customers are better served with Ethernet storage, so I don't miss it at all.

For both the VNX and VNXe, EMC has started moving away from the ala carte software feature approach--which, frankly, often made me feel as if I were being nickeled and dimed to death--and now offers a simple set of three bundles.

I'm hoping to get the VNXe into the lab so I can see just how easy EMC has made these new systems to use. As I've said many times, easy to use is easy to say.

I've written whitepapers for EMC, and the company did pay for a great sushi dinner for several bloggers Monday night. The opinions here are my own.

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