EMC’s new Centera Virtual Archive lets customers cluster up to four 128-node Centera content addressed storage (CAS) systems into a campus-wide virtual archive. The Enterprise Storage Forum report said that a 1TB system could provide a half a petabyte in a single content archiving system.
The new federated management feature costs $8,000, and it can link together different Centera versions as long as one of the systems is the current version.
The feature gives EMC’s 5,500 Centera customers an easier way to grow and manage their compliance-related archiving systems while preserving their investments in older Centera systems.
Also today, Index Engines announced that it has joined the EMC Velocity Technology and ISV Program to add indexing capabilities to Data Domain dedupe systems.