New EMC Celerra NSX High-End NAS Gateway with X-Blade Server Technology Delivers Four Times the Performance of Competing Systems. EMC Corporation unveiled the fastest, most advanced network attached storage (NAS) system in the world. The new high-end EMC Celerra NSX NAS gateway delivers up to 300,000 NFS operations per second. Combined with new Celerra software functionality also announced, this datacenter- class solution enables customers to scale higher, faster and more cost effectively than ever before. With new EMC-designed-and-built X-Blade server technology with N+1 clustering, the EMC Celerra NSX can scale performance using simple online upgrades that let customers easily and nondisruptively deploy up to eight XBlades. The Celerra NSX and new functionality helps customers lower costs and achieve information lifecycle management (ILM) benefits by consolidating direct attached storage (DAS) with iSCSI, automating the creation of tiered storage for NAS and transparently moving data from one tier to the next with unprecedented scale and simplified management. The Celerra NSX is the highestperforming and best price/performance NAS system in the industry. Compared with competing products, an eightblade EMC Celerra NSX delivers more than four times the NFS operationsper- second performance and 68% better price performance. For nearly a decade, EMC has been the technology leader in high-end NAS systems that have been deployed worldwide by thousands of customers who are looking for high levels of availability, functionality and performance. The new Celerra software delivers more scalable management capabilities and better ease of use. New virtual filesystem technology simplifies the management of file systems as customers' capacities grow. This technology presents multiple independent file systems as a single, virtual file system for easier administration, access, manageability and control. The new Celerra software also delivers the new Celerra Automated Volume Management that, via the Celerra graphical user interface, lets customers easily create optimized system configurations based on predefined workload characteristics. This capability dramatically reduces planning and management tasks. Kevin Kim, country manager of EMC Korea, said, "The EMC Celerra NSX represents a new standard in NAS, and it's a standard that our competition cannot match. Customers turn to EMC for complete solutions, not point products, to deliver the benefits of an ILM strategy. The EMC Celerra NSX, as part of an ILM initiative, enables customers to reduce their number of file servers, to consolidate storage, and to leverage their existing investments in storage area network (SAN) infrastructures." Additional Celerra NSX benefits include high-availability features such as redundant hot-swappable components, N+1 clustering, dual control stations, and dual uninterrupted power systems (UPS). To improve scalability, the Celerra NSX supports up to 16 terabytes of usable capacity per X-Blade, with a maximum system capacity of 112 terabytes. With a new RAID 3 data protection scheme, the Celerra NSX can deliver excellent performance for multimedia applications.