EMC competitor (FAS) arrays last year through an upgrade in its Data ONTAP 8 operating system. Around the same time, EMC also added FCoE to its midrange line of VNX SAN/NAS arrays.

EMC said it was important to add the technology to address the trend toward the convergence of data networks in corporations today.

Additionally, EMC said it increased security on its Symmetrix VMAX with new support for external servers using RSA Data Protectio Manager, which encrypts data at rest and stores and manages the encryption keys.

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