Motorola Deploys EMC Network-Attached Enterprise Storage

Schaumburg, IL-based Motorola has purchased and implemented EMC Corp. (Hopkinton, MA) Celerra File Server and EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and software to provide data sharing, performance, and availability to its UK-based GSM Products group. With Celerra, Motorola's engineering and business personnel transparently will share UNIX and Windows NT files—consolidated onto a common Symmetrix system and managed by EMC Enterprise Storage software.

The EMC Celerra File Server is a dedicated network file server optimized for moving data over local-area networks, including Gigabit Ethernet, and wide-area networks that include the Internet. With its bilingual network file system (NFS) and common internet file system (CIFS) protocol file access capabilities, Celerra simultaneously supports mixed UNIX and Windows NT environments and allows heterogeneous clients to share the same files using appropriate locking mechanisms.

"The different groups that make up our business operate in a mixed environment of UNIX and NT workstations," said Ivor Paul, manager of IT services operations for Motorola. "Celerra allows our distributed network clients to share both NFS and CIFS files simultaneously and transparently."