Dell EMC announced major software operating system updates to Dell EMC Unity and SC Series, giving customers powerful new features designed to extend the performance, functionality and longevity of their product investments.
As part of the software built into both Dell EMC Unity and SC Series All-flash and Hybrid storage arrays, customers can upgrade their operating system non-disruptively and at no cost (for customers with active ProSupport agreements) to improve workload performance, storage capacity and data protection and availability.
“We brought together the best engineers in the industry to accelerate our innovation in storage and have delivered major updates and significant new features to our midrange portfolio, demonstrating the power of what we can do together to delight our customers,” said Jeff Boudreau, President, Dell EMC Storage. “With this release, we’re continuing our relentless innovation in Dell EMC Unity and SC Series by delivering huge performance improvements, easier management, better security and greater efficiencies. We’re helping our customers modernize their data centers and solve their top business challenges.”
Dell EMC Unity has become the benchmark midrange storage solution that is designed to deliver the ultimate in simplicity and value, enabling organizations to speed deployment, streamline management and seamlessly tier unified storage workloads to the cloud.
The new Metrosync array-based file replication protects transactional file applications with rapid recovery and automated failover to a secondary data center. And, the 2-Way NDMP improves performance for better NAS backup times while reducing WAN/LAN network congestion.