EMC Unity Delivers Powerful All-Flash Storage for Small and Mid-sized IT Departments

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced EMC Unity™, a new family of storage systems that helps simplify and modernize the data center. Unity is the latest member of EMC’s all flash portfolio delivering highly affordable file and block storage for small and medium-sized IT departments. Unity joins EMC’s portfolio of all-flash storage arrays – XtremIO®, VMAX® All Flash and DSSD™ D5™ – to ensure that, no matter what a customer needs, EMC has a purpose-built solution to fit virtually any data center use case.

Since every business has its own unique storage challenges, Unity has been designed to offer greater flexibility and deployment options than competing data storage offerings.  With the ability to scale up to 3 Petabytes (PB) and up to 300K IOPS, EMC Unity is the industry’s first data storage solution for midsized IT to be available in all of the following unified configurations:

• Purpose-built: Unity is available as a purpose-built all-flash array, designed from the ground up for the flash data center. Additionally, Unity can be deployed in a hybrid configuration to meet individual business requirements 
• Software-Defined: UnityVSA™ offers the advanced file and block storage and data management features of Unity to be easily deployed as a virtual appliance 
• Converged: VCE® Vblock™ and VxBlock™ System 350 configurations are orderable immediately 

Designed for all flash, Unity provides some of the best flash economics in the industry, starting under $18,000. Additional inline data services will be added in the future to further lower effective $/GB cost. Unity also introduces a new level of affordability for customers deploying hybrid arrays, with prices starting under $10,000. Unity provides incredible unified storage density, with up to 80TB of all-flash storage in a dense, 2U array. 

All-flash Unity options also qualify for EMC’s Xpect More™ program, offering lifetime maintenance price protection, flash endurance protection and three-year money-back warranty. 

Availability

EMC Unity is available for purchase today. All-flash configurations start at under $18,000. Hybrid array configurations start at under $10,000.

Analyst Quote

Mark Peters, Practice Director and Senior Analyst, ESG 

“Businesses with midsized IT needs don’t want a stripped-down or supposedly-simplified enterprise storage array – instead, such businesses need a solution that is built from the ground up with their needs in mind. With Unity, EMC is combining its decade of flash expertise with its trusted midsized storage market knowledge and leadership in order to deliver an all-flash solution that that has all of the features expected in the enterprise, but packaged affordably to meet midsized IT needs.”

EMC Executive Quote

Jeff Boudreau, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mid-Range Solutions, Core Technologies Division at EMC

“EMC Unity offers modern data center simplicity and all-flash performance in an affordable package. Designed specifically to get the most out of all-flash media, EMC is making it simpler and more affordable for both SMEs and enterprises to modernize their data centers. With the launch of Unity, 2016 is truly the year of all-flash for EMC.”