The Symmetrix system is EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation , a Financial Times Global 500, Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure hardware, software, and services. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA.Former Intel executive Richard Egan and his...

's flagship enterprise storage

Enterprise storage

In computing, an enterprise storage is the computer storage designed for large-scale, high-technology environments of the modern enterprises. When comparing to the consumer storage, it has higher scalability, higher reliability, better fault tolerance, and much higher initial price.From the...

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Disk array

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. The Symmetrix development has been led by Moshe Yanai

Moshe Yanai

Moshe Yanai is an Israeli electrical engineer . He is also a technologist and inventor, businessman, entrepreneur, aviator , investor, multi-millionaire, and philanthropist...

, who joined EMC in 1987, until shortly before his leaving EMC in 2001. There have been many generations of Symmetrix hardware, with the first appearing in 1990 and the latest, the Symmetrix VMAX Series, introduced in April 2009. The development of the Symmetrix's new features and huge internal software base, amid increasing its capacity and performance in orders of magnitude, have been an on-going process since its introduction.
Symmetrix arrays, EMC's flagship product at that time, began shipping in 1990 as an IBM Mainframe Block Multiplex Channel - (aka Bus and Tag) connected storage array.