EMC has introduced a range of new products and solutions to meet what it describes as the most transformative trends in IT history: cloud computing and big data.
Brian Gallagher, president of EMC's Enterprise Storage Division, spoke about some of these new products at EMC World, in Las Vegas, on Monday.
According to Gallagher, this is the company's largest-ever product refresh, and includes 42 new technologies that span the company's storage, backup, virtualisation and management portfolios.
EMC says these new products are part of its ongoing strategy of enabling cloud computing deployments, adding that they are largely aimed at making it easier and faster for customers to benefit from the move to hybrid cloud computing.
The new technologies include updates to the EMC VMAX range, the next version of the Isilon OneFS scale-out NAS operating system, VNX unified storage enhancements, new Data Domain and Avamar systems, a new combination of EMC VPLEX virtual storage, enhancements to the EMC Atmos Cloud platform, and a new EMC DataBridge enterprise management tool.
Gallagher said upgrades to the EMC VMAX range include the VMAX 10K, VMAX 20K and VMAX 40K enterprise storage arrays. According to EMC, the new range includes new software capabilities that streamline operations and extend VMAX to new hosts and applications.
The next version of Isilon OneFS will incorporate new levels of data protection, security, system performance and interoperability. “We think this is going to create huge opportunity for the expansion of our business and will really be an important milestone in the scale-out storage industry,” said Sujal Patel, co-founder and president of EMC Isilon.
The company said its new VNXe 3150 delivers 50% more performance and capacity per rack unit when compared to its predecessor. According to Rich Napolitano, president of EMC's Unified Storage Division, new VNX software lowers the starting price for flash, delivers single-click application protection and simplifies management in virtualised environments. He added that EMC will continue to lower the price points of flash storage.
EMC says its new Data Domain and Avamar systems and software transform the backup and recovery landscape, adding that these solutions work seamlessly with a broad set of enterprise applications, workloads and processes, offering customers flexibility and choice in how they meet their data protection challenges. According to EMC, Avamar deduplication software will provide the fastest backup and recovery service for VMware environments in the industry.
EMC says the combination of EMC VPLEX virtual storage with EMC RecoverPoint data protection is defining a new standard for hybrid cloud availability and protection. The company explains that the combination of these technologies delivers the industry's first solution to combine active-active data centres with third site disaster recovery protection.
EMC also announced enhancements to the EMC Atmos Cloud platform that transform the way service providers and enterprises manage big data in large, globally-distributed cloud storage environments. For example, the company says, new Atmos Cloud Accelerators make it even easier and faster to move data in and out of Atmos-powered clouds.
The new EMC DataBridge enterprise management tool lets IT operations teams with “single pane of glass” management build customisable dashboards for delivering IT as a service.
Finally, EMC describes VMAX Service Provider (VMAX SP) as a purpose-built platform that delivers enterprise-class storage to service providers using a simple-to-consume and simple-to-manage approach.
According to EMC, with VMAX SP, service providers no longer need to purchase individual storage, software and service components and spend time integrating them. Instead, they can buy VMAX SP as a pre-packaged platform based on service-level options.
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