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April 14, 2009 (Computerworld) EMC Corp. today unveiled a high-end Symmetrix storage array that is based on Intel Corp.’s x86 quad-core processors and integrates VMware’s APIs to automate the provisioning of storage for virtual machines across multiple tiers of disk drives, from solid-state to SATA.

The new V-Max array, with its Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture, scales to 2 petabytes of usable capacity within a single chassis and offers three times the performance of the current Symmetrix DMX-4 array.

EMC said that its use of industry-standard processors and VMware’s hypervisor enables the system to scale up to hundreds of thousands of terabytes of storage and tens of millions of I/O operations per second supporting hundreds of thousands of VMware and other virtual machines in a single, pooled storage infrastructure.

Anything the vendors can do to make storage more affordable and accessible has to be a good thing, that EMC are also improving the performance and scalability of their storage brings more opportunities to the virtualization platform.

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