EMC Corp has developed a new software, the EMC Celerra unified storage system software with an aim to increase virtual storage efficiency, automation and management simplicity in VMware environment.

EMC says that the software cuts by almost half virtual machine storage capacity requirements through thin provisioning, deduplication and improved management.

It also accelerates the cloning of virtual machine data 2-to-3 times faster than existing solutions using the processing power of the Celerra systems and fully automates the failback process for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager software in NFS environments.

For VMware administrators, the Celerra Plug-In enables more effective and simplified provision, management of VMware data stores through a VMware vCenter console.

 “Customers choose VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, and ensure business continuity—paving the way for customers on the journey to cloud computing,” says Hatem Naguib, Vice President, Alliances, VMware. “These new capabilities from EMC greatly increase the ease-of-use and resource optimization for mutual customers, integrating with VMware vSphere™ through common deployment interfaces. Now VMware administrators have enhanced control to reduce storage consumption, maintain service levels for performance-sensitive applications, and simplify storage management and data recovery tasks.”

Mark Sorenson, Senior Vice President, EMC Unified Storage Division comments,“As virtual environments—and the inherent management complexities for managing these environments—grow, EMC continues to bring to market storage solutions and features such as compressing virtual machines, cloning virtual machines, and automating failback/failover to solve our customers' challenges. These innovations contribute to EMC Celerra's position as a market leader, with its 11th consecutive quarter of double-digit revenue growth in the fourth quarter of 2009.”