EMC Debuts New Storage Networking Security/Management

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), Hopkinton, Mass., a world leader in information infrastructure solutions, has introduced the newest addition to its EMC(R) Connectrix(R) family of switches and directors as well as new storage networking security and management capabilities. The EMC Connectrix ED-DCX-4S-B, a new midsize backbone director, based on OEM technology from Brocade, is a multipurpose core and edge network switching platform designed to help facilitate server, storage area network (SAN), and data center consolidation while helping to reduce IT infrastructure and administrative costs. The director scales to 192 ports at up to full 8 Gbit/sec speed through its four modular blade slots and leverages the same architecture and delivers the same high levels of performance, scalability, and energy efficiency as its larger predecessor, the Connectrix DCX director.