History
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. Newer generations of Symmetrix brought additional host connection protocols which include ESCON, SCSI, Fibre Channel-based SANs, FICON and iSCSI. The Symmetrix product was initially popular within the airline industry and with companies that were willing to deviate from the safety of IBM's 3390 disk subsystem and take a risk with the unproven Symmetrix array. The Symmetrix has been developed by a team led by Moshe Yanai. This product is the main reason for the rapid growth of EMC in the 1990s, both in size and value, from a company valued hundreds of millions of dollars to a multi-billion company. Moshe Yanai managed the Symmetrix development from the product's inception in the late 1980s until shortly before leaving EMC in 2001, and his Symmetrix development team grew from several people to thousands.
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