With twice the capacity and four times the processing power of competing products, the CX500 delivers best-in-class performance and scalability. And it offers all the advanced functionality and connectivity required for today's demanding networked storage environments-all at last year's price.

Bigger, faster-same low price.
The CX500 easily outperforms the competition with four times the CPU power and 4GB of cache. Plus, it offers twice the disk capacity-so you can scale from 5 to 120 drives in just 25U of rack space.

Full CLARiiON software functionality.
With the CX500, you get all the advanced software functionality of the top-of-the-line CLARiiON CX700 system. Simple, automated Web-based management and online LUN expansion (metaLUNs) through the EMC Navisphere Management Suite. Array-based local and remote replication with SnapView and MirrorView. And dynamic load balancing and multi-path failover with PowerPath software.

Simplify consolidation with comprehensive connectivity.
The CX500 was designed to simplify storage consolidation by providing simultaneous support for up to 128 HA hosts. It's qualified with the most popular server operating environments-including Windows, UNIX, Linux, and NetWare platforms-and is highly flexible to run in SAN, NAS, DAS, and iSCSI environments.

Bring offline information online, affordably.
Reduce backup/restore from hours to seconds-and keep more information online-with low-cost ATA drives. With the CX500, you can mix ATA and Fibre Channel drives in the same array-with 100-percent software compatibility-for superior performance and data availability over tape.

Easy, data-in-place growth path.
Expand to meet your business needs-while protecting your storage investment. Unlike any competing product, the CX500 enables data-in-place upgrades to the more powerful CLARiiON CX700 system. And like the rest of the CLARiiON CX series, the CX500 features consistent software capabilities among generations and non-disruptive hardware/software upgrades.

The industry's top-rated service and support.
Your CX500 is covered 24x7 with the same top-rated, on-site EMC support as the rest of the CX series. And with CLARiiON Proactive Support-included at no charge-you get automatic monitoring, diagnostics, dial-in, and repair, 24x7, to enhance your CLARiiON investment. CLARiiON Proactive Support helps you ensure high availability by preventing system outages and mitigating performance issues-all while lowering IT staffing costs.