EMC Expands Midrange Storage Leadership In VMware Environments: Page 2 of 5

Integrated Data Protection and Business Continuity for Virtualized Environments

As customers move toward virtualizing their critical applications, their need for robust disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) solutions for site and system level protection become critical. The new virtualization-aware RecoverPoint enables customers to:

• Manage replicated storage for virtualized and physical servers from a single view. It is the only solution integrated with VMware vCenter for automated virtual machine replication management.
• Identify unprotected virtual machines, while improving proactive management of the environment via automatic alerts, particularly in CLARiiON environments.

Maintain performance and protection without the need for additional bandwidth with both synchronous and asynchronous remote replication. This new capability gives customers the best of both synchronous and asynchronous replication with zero data loss during normal synchronous operations and appropriate performance levels with ensured data protection via asynchronous replication during I/O spikes.

Additionally, a new version of Replication Manager provides instant image-level recovery of virtual machines for stronger data protection and tighter recovery objectives. It enables customers to:

• Protect their entire virtual machine environment and provide simplified, point-and-click recovery of virtual machines to accelerate recovery time objectives (RTO).
• Achieve virtual machine level recovery within a VMware ESX Server environment, significantly reducing impact to production.

Today, EMC also introduced an EMC Proven Solution that is enabled by CLARiiON CX4 and VMware vSphere 4 to help customers take full advantage of these new capabilities. A Solution Blueprint is now available to provide a detailed technical overview and best practice for consolidating mission critical applications through virtualization. This solution leverages the virtualization-aware capabilities of Navisphere Manager for improved usability, identifying the intersection of physical and virtual assets. This solution satisfies the demanding performance requirements of critical applications leveraging the load-balancing of PowerPath/Virtual Edition. Overall, this solution enables the consolidation of these mission critical applications for a better return on investment for IT infrastructure.

Organizations worldwide are using CLARiiON CX4 storage systems in VMware environments with the new virtualization-aware management, data protection and replication technologies, as well as advanced energy efficiency technologies such as automated disk spin-down and virtual provisioning (also known as thin provisioning) to lower their costs and improve service levels.

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