Unisphere

Unisphere may refer to two distinct meanings in public and technical contexts: a famous public sculpture in New York City and a storage management software suite developed by EMC (now Dell EMC).

Unisphere (sculpture) is a large stainless-steel globe located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York. Built for the 1964–65 New York World’s Fair, the sculpture sits in a reflecting pool and features a lattice of meridians and parallels that outline continents on a spherical surface. Designed by Gilmore D. Clarke, the Unisphere has become an enduring landmark of the park and an enduring symbol associated with the World’s Fair and the space age. Its imposing presence and reflective surface have made it a recognizable icon of New York City’s public art.

Unisphere (software) is a web-based storage management interface produced by EMC, now part of Dell EMC, for configuring and monitoring EMC storage arrays. It replaced earlier management tools and provides provisioning of storage resources, performance monitoring, reporting, and the administration of data protection features across EMC products such as Symmetrix/VMAX, CLARiiON, and VNX. The interface is accessible through standard web browsers and includes variants such as Unisphere Central for managing multiple arrays. As part of Dell EMC’s storage-management ecosystem, Unisphere facilitates lifecycle operations from deployment to ongoing maintenance and integrates with other management tools to support enterprise storage environments.