EMC enters small business market with storage

The first version of the product will be Ethernet-only, relegating higher bandwidth fibre-channel interfaces to the simultaneously launched, higher-end VNX family of infrastructure models, which supercede both EMC's CLARiiON and Celerra models. But, unified storage division president, Rich Napolitano, hinted that fibre-channel modules might ultimately become available to VNXe products in coming months.

Napolitano, who came to EMC to simplify its roadmap four years ago, told Computerworld Australia the rapid growth of the SMB market prompted the company's entry. Both he and Asia Pacific and Japan president, Steve Leonard, insisted the new product line would not overlap with attempts by the company to promote Cloud migration through cooperative vehicle the Virtual Computing Environment.