On Tuesday, EMC Corp. released the NX4, the smallest element of the Celerra series. According to company officials, the Celerra NX4 Unified Storage System was designed especially for the small and mid-size business market.

The newly launched NX4 features ports for block-based iSCSI, Fibre Channel SAN storage, as well as file-serving NAS, similar to the old Celerra NS20 NAS array. The new array, which is 8.75 inches high, packs from 4 to 32TB.

Brad Bunce, product marketing director for EMC's Celerra family, said one of best things about the NX4 is that administrators do not need to learn any new elements.

The company also mentioned pricing and it goes like this: an entry-level system, packing disk storage capacity of 4TB plus NAS and iSCSI licensing, goes for $20,375.

Besides small and medium-sized businesses, the NX4 is also recommended for remote offices, if moving all the storage and distributed file servers to a single platform is required.

Celerra NX4 features support for the operating systems developed by Microsoft, UNIX, Linux and VMware ESX Server, as well as for applications such as Oracle, SQL Server and VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

According to Rich Napolitano, senior VP and general manager, EMC storage division, the company’s expertise in IP storage remains the most "cost-effective, reliable, and easy to use unified storage systems in the industry."