History
RAID Recovery - History
In the mid and late 1980, EMC was an add-on memory as well as minicomputer disk drive supplier which had failed to make a strong market base and was suffering because of the low quality products. In this worst situation, company’s co-founder as well as chairman, Dick Egan, took the initiative; he blocked an opportunity and hired some Israeli developers, under the guidance of Moshe Yanai, who, at the time, were working for Nixdorf Computer Corporation. This highly motivated and self-driven team began developing a high performance disk array for the largest disk subsystem market, IBM mainframe. The Symmetrix came into market as ESCON and SCSI connected storage array in the year 1990. Later, with the introduction of Fibre channel-based SANs, it became popular among airline industry. Gradually, it succeeded to break the monopoly of IBM’s relatively slower 3390 disk subsystems. Customers, who felt the essence of performance over safety, showed tremendous interest in Symmetrix which later on proved to be consistent. By employing innovative features such as Disk mirroring and SRDF, a remote disk to disk replication capability, reached beyond mainframe class. Soon, companies of different genre were using Symmetric storage systems.
EMC Symmetrix systems
The Symmaetrix is EMC’s flagship enterprise storage array. It came into existence in 1994 with first generation (Symmetrix 4200, Symmetrix 4400 and Symmetrix 4800) of storage array. In last 15 years, it has successfully launched many successive generations of storage arrays with the latest versions of Symmetrix DMX series arrays: DMX 800, DMX 100, DMX 2000, DMX 3000, DMX-3 and DMX-4. Driven by persistently increasing storage requirements, EMC DMX series storage systems and software have been heartily embraced by customers across the globe. Some of the major companies that use Symmetric systems are: AdvancePCS, Ajinomoto System Techno (Japan), American Family Insurance, Axciom, Department of Transport (UK), EarthLink, EDB Teamco AS (Norway), Fiducia AG (Germany), The Huntington National Bank, Korea Exchange Bank Credit Service, Nationwide (UK), North Bronx Healthcare Network, Ohio Savings Bank, Orange (Switzerland), ProfitLogic, Thomson Financial, TravelSky Technology Limited (China), U.S. Air Force Reserve Command, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Vittoria Assicurazioni (Italy), Warner Music Group, WIND Telecommunications (Italy) and The World Bank.
