EMC Corporation today announced general availability of its new flagship high-end storage system, the EMC Symmetrix DMX-3, which was announced on July 25. The first system ordered by a customer, a fully loaded, 960-drive Symmetrix DMX-3 array, was shipped today.

David Donatelli, EMC Executive Vice President, Storage Platforms Operations, said, "We had an extremely successful beta process with the new EMC Symmetrix DMX-3, and we're enthused by the initial customer response. Customers realize that they can achieve significant cost savings through consolidation, and the unique architecture of the Symmetrix DMX-3 ensures that performance scales with capacity. When combined with EMC's advanced functionality, the Symmetrix DMX-3 is able to serve as the cornerstone of an information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy."

The Symmetrix DMX-3 system complements and builds on the success of the industry-leading Symmetrix DMX-2 Series of systems. The DMX-3 exceeds previous capabilities through a design that features increased processing power and internal bandwidth, new memory technology and support for lower-cost disk drives. The Symmetrix DMX-3 supports up to 960 disk drives today, and will be qualified to support up to 1,920 disk drives in the first half of 2006 and more than 2,000 by the end of next year.