EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today introduced several new features for its market leading EMC® CLARiiON® family of networked storage systems. They include integrated advanced security, additional iSCSI capabilities and improved data availability features as well as support for the newest generation of high-capacity disk drives. Together, these enhancements will help customers more effectively store, manage and protect their information while protecting their existing investment in CLARiiON and help extend EMC’s leadership in the midrange storage market.

The new capabilities are included in the latest version of the EMC CLARiiON FLARE® storage operating environment, which is available as a free upgrade to CLARiiON CX3 system and previous generation CLARiiON CX300, CX500 and CX700 system customers under maintenance.

New Security and Compliance Features
EMC has built in a comprehensive set of features that can help CLARiiON customers more effectively control access to their systems and better secure information. The new features include:

New iSCSI Capabilities
Dual-protocol EMC CLARiiON CX systems support both Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity. As the popularity of deploying CLARiiON in iSCSI storage networking environments continues to grow, the newest version of the FLARE storage operating environment includes new native iSCSI remote replication capabilities. This allows customers to replicate data over distances more cost-effectively by using the built-in iSCSI ports on CLARiiON systems with EMC MirrorView™ and EMC SAN Copy™ software. This new capability will reduce remote replication costs, making it ideal for first time disaster recovery projects, as well as VMware® environments where data from virtual servers has been consolidated and needs to be replicated to an off-site location.

New Energy Efficient Disk Drive Support and High Availability Capabilities
To help customers further reduce costs, the CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale series systems support the newest 750 GB SATA II disk drives, which can provide energy efficiency improvements of up to 33 percent. EMC is also providing customers with a new protection option with the addition of RAID 6 support. In addition, the latest version of FLARE includes support for the ALUA (Asymmetric Logical Unit Access) standard for advanced active/active failover functions. Combined with current proactive hot sparing capabilities, these new features further support the CLARiiON CX3 midrange storage leading benchmark of “Five 9’s” of availability – 99.999 percent uptime.

Calamos Investments® is a diversified investment firm offering equity, fixed-income, convertible and alternative investment strategies, among others. The firm serves institutions and individuals via separately managed accounts and a family of open-end and closed-end funds, providing a risk-managed approach to capital appreciation and income-producing strategies. Based in Naperville, Ill., Calamos' headquarters is registered with the U.S. Green Building Council for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Calamos uses EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 and EMC CLARiiON storage arrays coupled with EMC software solutions to provide highly available and flexible systems to its internal and external clients. Calamos recently completed a beta evaluation of the new FLARE operating environment with two EMC CLARiiON CX3-10 UltraScale systems.

Corey Owens, Calamos Vice President of Network Operations said, “In order to best serve our customers and associates, our information infrastructure must be continuously available. EMC helps us address this need by providing hardware and software that are designed to be flexible in our dynamic and fast-paced environment. The new FLARE operating environment for EMC CLARiiON has demonstrated several new features such as access control and a protection option that will help us keep our data secure and available while keeping power and cooling costs down. Additionally, the native IP replication feature will help Calamos augment its aggressive business continuity plan.”

Mike Karp, senior storage analyst at Enterprises Management Associates, said, “Information security and protection are key issues for organizations of all sizes. By extending security and protection and by offering such services over both Fibre Channel and iSCSI connections, EMC makes it easier for both mid-tier and enterprise customers to protect their data while at the same time continue to get value from their investment in existing storage hardware.”

David Donatelli, EMC’s Executive Vice President of Storage Product Operations, added, “These new capabilities significantly improve customers’ ability to secure and protect their information infrastructure. We have made the upgrade path easy and non-disruptive for existing customers and we make these features available at no charge to customers under maintenance. With ‘Five 9s’ availability and new leading security and protection capabilities built-in, no other mid-tier platform delivers as much value or is as economical and easy to use as EMC CLARiiON.”

Availability
The latest version of the EMC FLARE storage operating environment will be available in August 2007.