On the Beach

^{It's summer. I'm on vacation. But I had to log a quick post to comment on the latest release from CLARiiONbecause, for EMC competitors, it isn't safe to go in the water.}

^{On Tuesday, EMC announced the CLARiiON CX4.  This is a new generation CLARiiON that boosts an already superior storage system.  Energy efficiency is, of course, on the list of advances but there's lots more.}

^{The short list:}

• ^{2X scale and up to 2x performance increase with a new CX4 architecture sporting 64 bit FLARE and Intel-based Multi-core Processors}
                                                                                    
• ^{UltraFlexTechnology for dual protocol  capabilities and hot pluggable IO modules for online expansion}
  
• ^{Tier "0" Flash Drive - first in the mid-tier}
  
• ^{Concurrent Local and Remote Replication via RecoverPoint integration}
  
• ^{Virtual Provisioning software that  increases utilization, simplifies  provisioning and helps to save energy}
  
• ^{AND on the energy front: drive spin-down, low Power SATA drives and adaptive cooling}

^{As Jimmy Buffet sings: "Fins to the left, fins to the right..." and the competition is bait.} 

 ^{This CX4 is a packed package.} 

^{Adaptive cooling. Fans spin based upon system temperature and operating requirements.} 

^{Solid state Flash Disk increase  performance 10X in response time and 30X in IOPS. Individual Flash Disk use less energy than comparable capacity spinning disk, but the fact is that customers can eliminate as meany as 30 mechanical drives and get equivalent performance.} 

^{Add in low power SATA drives, Virtual Provisioning, disk Spin Down and this is like compound interest back when you could still get 5% at the local savings bank.}

^{Am I the only one who remembers that?}

^{So check the EMC web site for all the particulars and if you're in the market for a midrange system you'll be thirsting after a CX4 like wine tasters seeking an undiscovered Chateau.} 

^{Also, other blogs that fill in details on market position - Chuck's Blog, Virtualization - Virtual Geek, and technical viewpont at StorageZilla.}

^{Wait, there's more.  A really significant but frequently overlooked energy element deserves more attention.   It's energy efficiency in the fundamental system architecture and operating environment.} 

^{It's efficiency by useable capacity.} 

^{CLARiiON is much more efficient in fundamental system architecture when compared to alternatives on the basis of useable capacity.   That translates to energy efficiency because your terabyte of application data stored on a CLARiiON will require less in total system footprint.} 

^{That's less energy, square footage and capital cost.}

^{Capabilities built into CLARiiON systems efficiently utilize disk resources for snaps, RAID, spares and overhead  and do it much more effectively than competitive systems.}

^{Look at how an HP array gobbles capacity for system overhead,  spares, RAID, and Snaps. Only about 46% of the purchased capacity is actually available for storing application data.}

^{How about that for efficiency?  Less than half of system capacity is useable!}

^{NTAP system requirements are similar when they follow their own best practices. NetApp customers are left with only ~34% of the total capacity purchased available for storing application data.}

^{These are compelling differences and are critical to understand in the context of energy efficiency  and floor space.  With NetApp at 34% and HP at 46% and CLARiiON at 70% in terms of useable capacity, that translates to large differences in power consumed to satisfy real storage capacity.}

^{Without any of the other new energy features, utilization should drive the decision.  Add the new stuff just adds to the pile.}

^{Now, everybody in the water - unless you're scared of competition.}

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Although HP has good battery time but it must be exceed as it doesn't fulfilling the current requirement of the customers