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PowerMax family platforms integrate a highly redundant architecture, creating a remarkably reliable environment in a configuration that minimizes carbon footprint in the data center and reduces total cost of ownership.
The introduction of PowerMaxOS enhances the customer’s experience through technologies such as service level-based provisioning, making storage management easier while also increasing availability of data through improvements to concepts such as vaulting, disk sparing, and RAID. The local and remote replication suites bring the system to an elevated level of availability, through TimeFinder SnapVX and SRDF, respectively. The serviceability aspects make the component replacement process quick and easy.
The key enhancements that improve the reliability, availability, and serviceability of the systems make PowerMax the ideal choice for critical applications and 24x7 environments that require uninterrupted access to information.