EMC Delivers Simultaneous UNIX & NT Backups With 'NAS' or 'SAN' Path Selection; Boosts Backup and Restore Performance for Integrated NAS and SAN Environments.Business/Technology Editors HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 31, 2001 EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. today added a new dimension to its networked information storage leadership with announcement of significant new enhancements to EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. (R) Data Manager (EDM (Engineering Data Management) An information system that maintains the details of all engineering data while the product is in the design and concept phase. This includes geometry and changes to geometry. See PLM. EDM - Electronic Data Management (TM)), the industry's fastest and most scalable backup and restore solution for open systems. Today's announcements deliver two critical new EDM capabilities that address customers' need for high-performance and cost-effective information backup and restore within today's large, complex Network Attached Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) and Storage Area Network (SAN) environments. The enhancements include: --The ability to perform simultaneous NFS (Network File System) The file sharing protocol in a Unix network. This de facto Unix standard, which is widely known as a "distributed file system," was developed by Sun. See file sharing protocol and WebNFS. NFS - Network File System (UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). ) and CIFS (Common Internet File System) The file sharing protocol used in Windows. It evolved out of the SMB (Server Message Block) protocol in DOS, which is why the terms CIFS/SMB and SMB/CIFS are sometimes seen. The word "Internet" in the CIFS name has little relevance. (Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. ) backups, while maintaining all of EDM's rich backup and restore functionality, and --The ability to choose the highest-performance path - either NAS or SAN -- for specific file backups. This advanced feature is achieved through EDM support for EMC Celerra(TM) HighRoad(TM) software, InfoWorld Magazine's Storage Product of the Year. "More than 80% of information storage will be networked within a few years, spelling major opportunity for vendors that deliver rich, high performance backup and restore for all information types," said Chuck Hollis, EMC's Vice President of Products and Markets. "Through enhancements to EDM, new backup and recovery applications and integration with key backup enablers, EMC will continue to deliver the most comprehensive solutions to address the complete spectrum of our customers' recovery time objectives." Bi-lingual NAS Backups With wide-scale implementation of multiple host types within today's NAS and SAN environments, bi-lingual backup and restore for UNIX and Windows NT files and filesystems has become essential. EMC today announced EDM bi-lingual support, enabling customers to backup and restore both NFS (UNIX) and CIFS (Windows ) files as a single operation, preserving the specific file attributes associated with the various data types on today's files servers. Celerra HighRoad Support EMC also announced EDM support for EMC Celerra HighRoad The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. software, enabling EDM to determine the optimal route for data delivery - either NAS or SAN. This advanced feature bypasses the local-area network to move large NFS and CIFS files directly from NAS-attached EMC Symmetrix (R) Enterprise Storage systems over a high-speed Fibre Channel SAN to an EDM-managed tape device. EDM with HighRoad support offloads both file server CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and network demands, offering increased performance for backup and recovery for large Celerra-based files when compared with local or network backup options. This channel-based backup method also allows multiple EMC Celerra systems to perform high-speed backup to a shared centralized tape library, therefore eliminating the need for dedicated backup resources for each NAS device and lowering the cost of backup and restore in large environments. InfoWorld Magazine this month honored EMC Celerra HighRoad software as the Storage Product of the Year. Known as the technology that effectively ended the debate between NAS and SAN by combining the best of both environments, EMC Celerra HighRoad fuses the industry-standard file sharing of NAS with the high-performance information delivery of a SAN, creating one unified storage network. About EDM EDM is a centralized, high-speed, high-capacity open systems backup and restore solution comprising unique EMC software, hardware and professional services. EDM configurations include: --EDM Symmetrix Connect, providing "server-less" and "LAN-less" (direct disk-to-tape) backup and recovery of Symmetrix-resident Windows NT data and very large UNIX databases at hundreds of gigabytes per hour; --EDM Symmetrix Path, providing open, "LAN-less" backup and recovery of large UNIX and Windows NT databases at server-channel speeds, including Symmetrix- and non-Symmetrix-resident data (host-resident data can reside on the host or in non-EMC storage devices and be backed up by EDM Symmetrix Path); and --EDM Enterprise Network, an online network-based EDM solution for simultaneous backup and restore across the network for all major UNIX operating systems as well as Windows NT, Novell NetWare, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) OS/2 and others. About EMC EMC Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.EMC.com. EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Celerra, EMC Data Manager (EDM) and EMC Celerra HighRoad are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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