EMC has introduced a new lineup of enterprise storage arrays, EMC VMAX Family, that consists of the VMAX 10K, VMAX 20K and the new member VMAX 40K.

The new family is built upon the Virtual Matrix Architecture and it offers an efficient enterprise information infrastructure for deploying Hybrid Clouds.

The EMC VMAX Family is anchored by the new VMAX 40K, a product that delivers 3X more performance and 2X more usable capacity than other enterprise storage products.

The VMAX 40K is optimised to support hyper-consolidation of the big data, transaction processing, analytics and cloud computing applications.

Leveraging up to 32 2.8GHz Intel Xeon 6-core processors, as much as 2TB of mirrored (1TB usable) and ECC-protected DDR3 DRAM, and twice as much internal fabric bandwidth as the original EMC VMAX, the new VMAX 40K offers improved performance and scale.

It supports up to 4PB of usable capacity and utilises 2.5" SAS drives.

EMC has also added new software capabilities to the VMAX platform that includes a New Federated Tiered Storage (FTS) that enables customers to consolidate and simplify management and operations of their disparate storage assets.

Customers can now use trusted Symmetrix SRDF and TimeFinder software for business continuity, FAST VP for improved performance, and others to extend the life and value of existing storage arrays in the data centre. FAST VP for VMAX now supports IBM System z mainframes and IBM i servers.

EMC RecoverPoint for VMAX delivers heterogeneous local and remote replication of EMC VMAX with point-in-time recovery.

The latest version of EMC ProSphere delivers the ability to manage storage, server and network resources through a single pane of glass. ProSphere now reports on host capacity use by FAST policy to enhance reporting in FAST VP environments.

The new Unisphere for EMC VMAX is an advanced management interface that simplifies and streamlines storage operations and management while providing a common look and experience across the entire EMC VMAX Family as well as EMC VNX Family, EMC VPLEX, and RecoverPoint products.