EMC Corp has long supplied Compagnie des Machines Bull SA with its disk arrays for attachment to its mainframes, and now Bull has moved on to the EMC product that is generating a whole new round of excitement for the Hopkinton, Massachusetts company, its Symmetrix 3000 Integrated Cached Disk Array for Unix systems. The storage systems are accessible from a wide range of servers in the open systems market, including Bull’s Escala and Escala Powercluster Unix servers and the new Sagister Unix multiframe systems. The Symmetrix 3000 stores up to 1Tb of data from as many as 32 different servers. The terms were not disclosed.
