| MANHASSET, N.Y. — EMC Corp. and Intel Corp. have 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.
Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.) will offer a networked storage system based on the EMC Clariion AX150. 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, in a statement. "By working with EMC to deliver standards-based storage platforms, we are bringing leading enterprise storage value and technology to Intel customers worldwide."
The Intel SSR212PP Storage System based on EMC Clariion AX150 technology is expected to be available 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. It is available for iSCSI or Fibre Channel for flexible direct attached storage (DAS) or storage area network (SAN) connectivity. (52RD.com) |
