Some time now has passed since EMC World tore through Las Vegas and my head is still spinning from all the announcements! One that definitely should be overlooked especially for SMB customers is the newest addition to the VNXe family, the VNXe 3150. For those of you who are not familiar the VNXe line of storage from EMC let me get you up to speed. VNXe systems were designed with one philosophy in mind: keep it simple. It’s storage from the application’s point of view with one clear way to handle any task from initial installation to creating storage for virtual servers. You can shift from managing file shares to creating application storage without missing a beat.What this means to you? Well...You can save time and steps. Provisioning storage is a breeze most any opertaion you need to do can be lone in 5 clicks or less and most certainly under 10 minutes. Not too shabby huh? All of this is done through the all new Unisphere management interface tailored especially for the VNXe for administrators of all types. This system is easy for the first time storage user to the storage expert. The wizards in this thing are fantastic! Not a wizard fan and dont like being bound with their constraints? No problem all the advanced features are still there for the storage pros! Dont forget the best part though, the VNXe line provides deduplication, thin provisioning and conpression all for FREE, no extra licensing required for any of those features! So, all that said let me tell you what the VNXe 3150 brings to the table, more after the bump!<!--more-->

The new VNXe 3150 is a powerhouse in a tiny package for those who want the high performance and reliability that EMC is known for without the price tag of enterprise class storage. The new VNXe 3150 storage system, adds 50% more performance and capacity per rack unit with the simplicity for which the award-winning VNXe line is already known. This system like its older brothers is purpose-built for IT generalists and is optimized for cloud computing and virtualized applications, and this thing can pack a punch. In the newest 2U model the VNXe 3150 can now hold up to 25 2.5 inch drives in its enclosure, that's some serious terabytes per U! Did i mention it also now supports 3TB NL SAS drives as well? With all this space you wanna make sure the performance is there right? No problem, the new VNXe 3150 comes complete with Quad-Core Intel processors giving it the umph it needs and a 10 GB I/O module can be easily added to get the throughput you need from you storage in your environment!  Now I know you are wondering about the older brothers, are they getting left behind? Nope! They are getting upgrades as well especially in the drive area, all VNXe models will now be able to support 2.5 inch drives. I think we can all experct more announcements the second half of this year when the 3150 will be released. EMC has changed the face of the storage industy in many ways and had always provided good, healthy competition and I dont think we will see a slow down in that any time soon!