New EMC Storage Arrays, Systems & Software-Defined Storage Speed IT Transformation
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Posted on September 4, 2013 at 4:28:01 AM
New EMC Storage Arrays, Systems & Software-Defined Storage Speed IT Transformation
EMC VNX and VSPEX Systems Transform Virtualized Infrastructure; EMC ViPR Software-Defined Storage Provides Bridge To Next-Generation Architectures; EMC Previews "Project Nile" Elastic Cloud Storage Platform
MILAN, Sept. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
News Summary:
-- Today EMC executives, customers and partners kicked off an
around-the-world, 24-hour live broadcast from Milan Italy, announcing
new products that help give customers the speed they need to lead their
IT Transformation. To view the broadcast visit
http://www.emc.com/speed2lead.
-- EMC announced the revolutionary new EMC(®) VNX(®) Series delivers
unprecedented price/performance--one-third the price for the same
performance of the previous generation.
-- The world's fastest-growing reference architecture, EMC VSPEX((TM)), now
delivers 2X more virtual machines at the same price, and an even broader
spectrum of choice for workloads that matter most--powered by the new
EMC VNX Series.
-- EMC announced the general availability of EMC ViPR(®) Software-Defined
Storage Platform, planned for later this month. It is scheduled to
include both ViPR Controller and ViPR Object Data Services to store,
access and manipulate objects.
-- EMC today unveiled the "Project Nile" Elastic Cloud Storage platform
that is focused on delivering Private Cloud control, security and
flexibility with the scale, economics and ease-of-use generally
associated with the public cloud.
-- New EMC XtremSW Cache((TM)) 2.0 server-flash caching software provides
new management capabilities and advanced support for VMware, AIX and
Oracle RAC environments.
-- EMC and Lotus F1 Team celebrated their technology partnership with the
new EMC VNX5400 Lotus Team F1 Limited Edition arrays.
Interact with EMC Online:
-- View the 24-hour live EMC broadcast for additional access to EMC content
and experts
-- Join the conversation with #Speed2Lead and follow @EMCCorp, @EMCVNX,
@EMCVSPEX, @EMCITMgmt, @EMCVPLEX and @EMCXtrem
-- View additional related news from EMC via EMC Pulse Blog
-- Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn
Full Story:
Today EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) kicked off a 24-hour, around-the-world live broadcast announcing new products that help give customers the speed they need to lead their IT Transformation. Today's news includes revolutionary technology advances in the EMC VNX line of midrange storage, new capabilities for the world's fastest growing reference architecture - EMC VSPEX, the upcoming general availability of EMC ViPR - a new Software-Defined Storage platform, and finally, a preview of "Project Nile" - which EMC expects to be the world's first commercially-available complete, Web-scale storage infrastructure for the data center.
Collectively these new innovations provide customers and partners with the essential building blocks they need to build Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud environments. EMC President and Chief Operating Officer, David Goulden, had this to say about the impact of EMC's new innovations for the market, customers and partners:
"Customers are demanding more performance and efficiency from their current data center infrastructure while, at the same time, deploying new architectures for their next generation mobile and Web applications. By fully embracing and exploiting disruptive technologies such as Intel MultiCore, virtualization and flash, EMC is providing customers with the products and solutions they need to help transform their IT department-not only delivering unprecedented levels of performance and efficiency but also providing the agility needed for their business to remain competitive."
Today's announcement includes the following highlights:
-- The new, highly anticipated range of VNX unified storage systems
(VNX5200, VNX5400, VNX5600, VNX5800, VNX7600, VNX8000 and VNX-F), that
shatter the definition and economics of midrange storage. The new VNX
raises the bar for application performance, storage efficiency, data
protection, data availability and ease-of-use. Through new MCx(TM)
software the new VNX fully unleashes the power of flash, accelerating
application and file performance by up-to 4X. The new platform also
delivers unprecedented price/performance--one-third the price for the
same performance of the previous generation.
-- All EMC VSPEX reference architectures are now powered by the new VNX
Series--delivering 2X more virtual machines at the same prices, and with
a broader spectrum of choice for workloads that matter most. VSPEX is
the worlds fastest growing reference architecture with 3,600 shipments
adopted by 3,000 customers and 1,500 partners.
-- EMC announced that the ViPR Software-Defined Storage Platform is planned
to be generally available later this month. ViPR is scheduled to include
both the ViPR Controller and ViPR Object Data Services. ViPR Object Data
Services gives customers the ability to view objects as files, providing
file access performance without the latency inherent in current object
storage models.
-- EMC also offered a technology preview of "Project Nile", which EMC
expects will be the first commercially-available complete, Web-scale
storage infrastructure for the data center.
-- New EMC XtremSW Cache 2.0 software offers deeper integration with EMC
arrays including the new VNX Series--further driving down latency by
65%. The advanced caching software also delivers greater
interoperability with VMware vCenter, industry first IBM AIX support and
distributed cache coherency for Oracle RAC environments (scheduled to be
available in the fourth quarter of 2013) as well as increased support
for any server flash SSD or PCIe hardware (including EMC XtremSF((TM))
server flash hardware).
-- EMC is celebrating its technology partnership with the Lotus F1 Team by
jointly announcing the EMCVNX 5400 Lotus Team F1 Limited Edition arrays
in Lotus F1 Team colors.
Partner Quotes
Satinder Sethi, Vice President, Data Center Group, Cisco
"Cisco's vision is to make data centers more application centric - with infrastructure that dynamically and automatically responds to the needs of business-critical applications. Cisco and EMC have partnered closely to deliver three paths to speed our customers' journey to the cloud: custom-designed infrastructure, validated reference architectures via EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure, and pre-integrated converged infrastructure with VCE Vblock Systems. Over the past year, Cisco solutions integrated with offerings from EMC and VCE have generated significant momentum with customers and partners. Today, Cisco and EMC have hundreds of joint channel partners and thousands of joint customers around the world. Together, Cisco and EMC plan to accelerate this success with our mutual channel partners. We also believe that EMC's next-generation VNX technology will complement Cisco's Unified Compute and Unified Fabric solutions, helping customers maximize their existing infrastructure and further simplify cloud deployments."
Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, VMware
"As organizations realize the benefits of the software-defined data center, VMware is continuing to offer customers choice and flexibility. VMware infrastructure with the VNX Series, ViPR and VSPEX Proven Infrastructure enables businesses to speed time-to-value, and provides an opportunity for organizations to be efficient and agile as their requirements grow."
Additional Resources
-- All news today includes related information and content via EMC Pulse
Blog
-- Visit the Speed To Lead Community on ECN
-- Video: New DataCrunchers Speed2Lead Unified Storage Road Race
-- Reflections Blog: Click Here
-- What is Speed?
-- Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset -- information -- in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at http://www.EMC.com.
EMC, MCx, VNX, ViPR, VSPEX and XtremSW are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Statement Legend
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (v) component and product quality and availability; (vi) fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating results and risks associated with trading of VMware stock; (vii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and market change; (viii) risks associated with managing the growth of our business, including risks associated with acquisitions and investments and the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (ix) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (x) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xii) threats and other disruptions to our secure data centers or networks; (xiii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (xiv) war or acts of terrorism; and (xv) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
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CONTACT: Katryn McGaughey, katryn.mcgaughey@emc.com, (781) 267-5147
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EMC VNX and VSPEX Systems Transform Virtualized Infrastructure; EMC ViPR Software-Defined Storage Provides Bridge To Next-Generation Architectures; EMC Previews "Project Nile" Elastic Cloud Storage Platform
MILAN, Sept. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
News Summary:
-- Today EMC executives, customers and partners kicked off an
around-the-world, 24-hour live broadcast from Milan Italy, announcing
new products that help give customers the speed they need to lead their
IT Transformation. To view the broadcast visit
http://www.emc.com/speed2lead.
-- EMC announced the revolutionary new EMC(®) VNX(®) Series delivers
unprecedented price/performance--one-third the price for the same
performance of the previous generation.
-- The world's fastest-growing reference architecture, EMC VSPEX((TM)), now
delivers 2X more virtual machines at the same price, and an even broader
spectrum of choice for workloads that matter most--powered by the new
EMC VNX Series.
-- EMC announced the general availability of EMC ViPR(®) Software-Defined
Storage Platform, planned for later this month. It is scheduled to
include both ViPR Controller and ViPR Object Data Services to store,
access and manipulate objects.
-- EMC today unveiled the "Project Nile" Elastic Cloud Storage platform
that is focused on delivering Private Cloud control, security and
flexibility with the scale, economics and ease-of-use generally
associated with the public cloud.
-- New EMC XtremSW Cache((TM)) 2.0 server-flash caching software provides
new management capabilities and advanced support for VMware, AIX and
Oracle RAC environments.
-- EMC and Lotus F1 Team celebrated their technology partnership with the
new EMC VNX5400 Lotus Team F1 Limited Edition arrays.
Interact with EMC Online:
-- View the 24-hour live EMC broadcast for additional access to EMC content
and experts
-- Join the conversation with #Speed2Lead and follow @EMCCorp, @EMCVNX,
@EMCVSPEX, @EMCITMgmt, @EMCVPLEX and @EMCXtrem
-- View additional related news from EMC via EMC Pulse Blog
-- Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn
Full Story:
Today EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) kicked off a 24-hour, around-the-world live broadcast announcing new products that help give customers the speed they need to lead their IT Transformation. Today's news includes revolutionary technology advances in the EMC VNX line of midrange storage, new capabilities for the world's fastest growing reference architecture - EMC VSPEX, the upcoming general availability of EMC ViPR - a new Software-Defined Storage platform, and finally, a preview of "Project Nile" - which EMC expects to be the world's first commercially-available complete, Web-scale storage infrastructure for the data center.
Collectively these new innovations provide customers and partners with the essential building blocks they need to build Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud environments. EMC President and Chief Operating Officer, David Goulden, had this to say about the impact of EMC's new innovations for the market, customers and partners:
"Customers are demanding more performance and efficiency from their current data center infrastructure while, at the same time, deploying new architectures for their next generation mobile and Web applications. By fully embracing and exploiting disruptive technologies such as Intel MultiCore, virtualization and flash, EMC is providing customers with the products and solutions they need to help transform their IT department-not only delivering unprecedented levels of performance and efficiency but also providing the agility needed for their business to remain competitive."
Today's announcement includes the following highlights:
-- The new, highly anticipated range of VNX unified storage systems
(VNX5200, VNX5400, VNX5600, VNX5800, VNX7600, VNX8000 and VNX-F), that
shatter the definition and economics of midrange storage. The new VNX
raises the bar for application performance, storage efficiency, data
protection, data availability and ease-of-use. Through new MCx(TM)
software the new VNX fully unleashes the power of flash, accelerating
application and file performance by up-to 4X. The new platform also
delivers unprecedented price/performance--one-third the price for the
same performance of the previous generation.
-- All EMC VSPEX reference architectures are now powered by the new VNX
Series--delivering 2X more virtual machines at the same prices, and with
a broader spectrum of choice for workloads that matter most. VSPEX is
the worlds fastest growing reference architecture with 3,600 shipments
adopted by 3,000 customers and 1,500 partners.
-- EMC announced that the ViPR Software-Defined Storage Platform is planned
to be generally available later this month. ViPR is scheduled to include
both the ViPR Controller and ViPR Object Data Services. ViPR Object Data
Services gives customers the ability to view objects as files, providing
file access performance without the latency inherent in current object
storage models.
-- EMC also offered a technology preview of "Project Nile", which EMC
expects will be the first commercially-available complete, Web-scale
storage infrastructure for the data center.
-- New EMC XtremSW Cache 2.0 software offers deeper integration with EMC
arrays including the new VNX Series--further driving down latency by
65%. The advanced caching software also delivers greater
interoperability with VMware vCenter, industry first IBM AIX support and
distributed cache coherency for Oracle RAC environments (scheduled to be
available in the fourth quarter of 2013) as well as increased support
for any server flash SSD or PCIe hardware (including EMC XtremSF((TM))
server flash hardware).
-- EMC is celebrating its technology partnership with the Lotus F1 Team by
jointly announcing the EMCVNX 5400 Lotus Team F1 Limited Edition arrays
in Lotus F1 Team colors.
Partner Quotes
Satinder Sethi, Vice President, Data Center Group, Cisco
"Cisco's vision is to make data centers more application centric - with infrastructure that dynamically and automatically responds to the needs of business-critical applications. Cisco and EMC have partnered closely to deliver three paths to speed our customers' journey to the cloud: custom-designed infrastructure, validated reference architectures via EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure, and pre-integrated converged infrastructure with VCE Vblock Systems. Over the past year, Cisco solutions integrated with offerings from EMC and VCE have generated significant momentum with customers and partners. Today, Cisco and EMC have hundreds of joint channel partners and thousands of joint customers around the world. Together, Cisco and EMC plan to accelerate this success with our mutual channel partners. We also believe that EMC's next-generation VNX technology will complement Cisco's Unified Compute and Unified Fabric solutions, helping customers maximize their existing infrastructure and further simplify cloud deployments."
Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, VMware
"As organizations realize the benefits of the software-defined data center, VMware is continuing to offer customers choice and flexibility. VMware infrastructure with the VNX Series, ViPR and VSPEX Proven Infrastructure enables businesses to speed time-to-value, and provides an opportunity for organizations to be efficient and agile as their requirements grow."
Additional Resources
-- All news today includes related information and content via EMC Pulse
Blog
-- Visit the Speed To Lead Community on ECN
-- Video: New DataCrunchers Speed2Lead Unified Storage Road Race
-- Reflections Blog: Click Here
-- What is Speed?
-- Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset -- information -- in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at http://www.EMC.com.
EMC, MCx, VNX, ViPR, VSPEX and XtremSW are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.
Forward-Looking Statement Legend
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (v) component and product quality and availability; (vi) fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating results and risks associated with trading of VMware stock; (vii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and market change; (viii) risks associated with managing the growth of our business, including risks associated with acquisitions and investments and the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (ix) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (x) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xii) threats and other disruptions to our secure data centers or networks; (xiii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (xiv) war or acts of terrorism; and (xv) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
SOURCE EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation
CONTACT: Katryn McGaughey, katryn.mcgaughey@emc.com, (781) 267-5147
Web Site: http://www.emc.com