EMC unveils real-time data replication over thousands of miles

10.05.2011
LAS VEGAS - EMC at its annual trade show today an upgrade to its data-caching appliance that allows arrays to replicate data between applications over distances greater than 2,000 miles.

The company also announced an integration of its Tiering Appliance and its midrange SAN/NAS VNX array, which allows older or unused data to be moved off the array to a lower-level tier of storage.

The EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance supports archiving to secondary storage with file retention capability, such as Data Domain, and will provide automated policy-driven migration, which allows users with big data challenges to automate data migration from multi-vendor environments to the VNX or to EMC Isilon clustered NAS storage.

Moving data was a big theme at this year's show, from placing it in virtualized storage and migrating it among tiers of storage to replicating it offsite for collaboration or disaster recovery.

At its user conference last year, , which allows synchronous replication of data over distances of up to 100 kilometers.

Today, the company announced VPLEX Geo, which allows data to be replicated between storage arrays over greater distances. Over the next 18 to 24 months it expects to announce VPLEX Global, which would allow data to be shared anywhere around the globe in real time, said Brian Gallagher, president of EMC's Symmetrix & Product Group.