Redefining IT performance and efficiency?

Major updates across XtremIO, VMAX3, VCE, VNX, Data Domain and Data Protection Suite portfolio.

  • Thursday, 7th May 2015 Posted 9 years ago in by Phil Alsop

EMC is introducing major updates to its industry-leading XtremIO all-flash array and the VMAX3 Enterprise Data Service Platform. Both products not only deliver breakthrough performance, automation and data service capabilities, but have been specifically designed to dramatically reduce management overhead, reducing the amount of time required to do common tasks from hours to minutes, or eliminating them altogether.

VCE is announcing a new family of Hyper-Converged RackScale Systems that enable enterprises and Service Providers to dramatically simplify the deployment of next-generation scale-out Mobile, Cloud and distributed Tier 2 applications. The VxRack™ System enables customers to start from dozens of servers and scaling to many thousands of servers -- tens of petabytes of storage capacity while guaranteeing the highest performance and $/IOPS. Most importantly, VCE brings its proven methodology of pre-engineered factory built infrastructure with single call life cycle support to deliver a massively scaled out Hyper-Converged VxRack with the same unmatched VCE customer experience.

In addition, for those IT organizations looking to Software-Defined Storage to provide agility and flexibility for their development and operational (DevOps) environments, EMC is announcing general availability of the first fully virtualized EMC VNXe® software stack (formerly known as Project Liberty). The EMC vVNX™ Community Edition software stack is designed to provide customers with the ability to create test and development environments based on VNXe storage without a dedicated storage hardware system and stand up multiple virtual VNXe instances cost effectively, using industry-standard server hardware. Additionally for the VNX family, EMC is releasing a new VNXe3200 all-flash variant. Sold through EMC’s Business Partner Program network, the 3 TB VNXe3200 is one of the most affordable unified all flash arrays on the market with a starting price of under $25,000.

EMC Enables Path to the Hybrid Cloud

EMC has optimized its products to deliver cloud capabilities across its portfolio, enabling customers to leverage public, private and hybrid cloud as a low-cost and flexible storage and data protection tier. EMC is extending this further with the launch of EMC CloudBoost™ and EMC CloudArray® software. The new CloudArray software enables tiering to cloud or object storage from the VMAX3 platform, lowering TCO by moving data to lower-cost storage. Whether used for backup and archive, file or secondary data, CloudArray technology ensures rapid accessibility allowing EMC customers to take full advantage of the cloud’s greater scalability, lower costs and reduced maintenance.

With today’s updates to the Data Protection Suite, CloudBoost enhancements are also designed to enable EMC Avamar® and EMC Networker® customers to seamlessly protect data on EMC and third-party cloud services, with the tools they already use.

EMC Protects Data Everywhere

As businesses accelerate their use and development of next-gen, cloud-enabled applications, they have struggled to protect data across what has become the hyper-extended enterprise. As part of its ongoing strategy to protect data wherever it resides, EMC is introducing a variety of new data protection products and product enhancements including:

· New Data Domain purpose-built backup appliances and powerful new software that breaks the status quo in data protection, raising the bar for traditional backup solutions.
· Cloud-enablement of the Data Protection Suite with the introduction of CloudBoost software to protect data on EMC and third-party cloud services, and the addition of Office365 protection to Spanning® by EMC.
· Data Protection Suite enhancements including universal search and enhancements to EMC RecoverPoint® for VMs.
· New Spanning Backup protection by EMC expands “born in the cloud” application data protection to Microsoft Office 365. In addition, Spanning is launching the Spanning Back-up for Good Program to offer non-profit organizations peace of mind while working in the cloud.