HOPKINTON, Mass., June 20, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
News Summary:
- Customer adoption of VCE VxRail Appliance Family is exceeding
expectations and is the only jointly engineered, simple and proven
turnkey for VMware environments
- In less than four months, VxRail Appliances have sold in more
than 45 countries
- Convergys can respond to business needs faster with VxRail
Appliances and experience a 20 percent performance gain over
existing approaches
- Zetes Industries can deploy VMs in less than 6 minutes to drive
innovation
- Dimension Data shaves off up to an hour of time for set-up and
shut-down at the end of each cycling race
- AmerisourceBergen and proALPHA reduce complexity and gain
agility to grow their businesses with VxRail Appliances
- All-flash VxRail Appliances now generally available and
include 2X more flash than the competition
- VxRail Appliances with all-flash powered by VMware Virtual SAN
are now less expensive per gigabyte than
hybrid appliances
Full Story:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced customer adoption of
the VCE® VxRail™ Appliance is exceeding expectations. VxRail
Appliances are the only hyper-converged infrastructure appliances
that are jointly engineered with VMware and are fully integrated,
preconfigured, and pre-tested for VMware environments. With sales
in more than 45 countries in less than four months, VxRail
Appliances are delivering simplicity, scalability and automation at
the right price point for small/midsize data centers and for
enterprise departmental and edge environments.
IT organizations in industries including finance, government and
public sector, retail, technology, healthcare and manufacturing and
distribution are choosing VxRail Appliances because of their:
- VMware Integration – Jointly engineered by EMC and
VMware for standardized ease-of-management
- Consolidation with Scalability - Starts small and scales
with single node upgrades; reduces data center footprint and
CapEx
- Industry-Leading Reliability – Jointly engineered and
integrated by EMC and VMware with a single support number for
end-to-end accountability
- High-Performance - Flash Speed at Hybrid prices and free
EMC RecoverPoint for VMs
- Flexible Applications – Supports small/midsize data
centers and for enterprise departmental and edge environments.
Customers Using VxRail Appliances
Ty Mallard, Vice President, IT Services,
AmerisourceBergen
"As our business grows, so has ITs
responsibility. When we deployed latency-sensitive
applications to our remote offices, it was critical that the
infrastructure behind it make scaling and management simple. By
standardizing on VxRail Appliances, our infrastructure and
environments were able to expand beyond the capabilities of
conventional, centralized infrastructure yet require minimal
support from IT."
Jim Harris, Director of IT
Infrastructure, Convergys
"We chose the VxRail Appliance
because it led every requirement that we tested against and
provided us with a 20 percent performance gain over our existing
approach. It lead the highest density of a single VM running on a
node, it led the highest density for a node with multiple VMs as
well as obviously led the highest density of a complete node versus
the competition."
Tim Wade, Sports Practice
Senior Director, Architecture Group, Dimension Data
"The
VxRail Appliances make sense for a compact mobile data center like
the one Dimension Data built for cycling for several reasons. These
appliances reduce complexity with network, compute and storage by
being packaged together which in turn delivers more operational
efficiency as we're managing one view versus multiple. Now our
set-up and shut-down process at the start and end of a race can be
reduced by 20-minutes at each which can save us up to an hour of
time."
Markus Gehm, IT-Service,
proALPHA Business Solutions GmbH
"What impressed us the most
is the VxRail Appliance's consolidation of all the management
functions into a single console and the pre-configured choice it
offered the company. Since our environment for key applications is
virtualized with VMware, the VxRail Appliances easily allowed us to
enhance our dynamic infrastructure to achieve additional efficiency
gains we need to grow our business."
Sergio Soares, IT Manager,
Zetes Industries
"To remain an industry leader, we are
constantly moving to achieve greater IT efficiency. In order
to consolidate our infrastructure and reduce time spent deploying
virtual machines, our organization chose the VxRail
Appliance. What was once an arduous procedure, is now
streamlined and we are able to create and deploy new VMs in under
six minutes each. That, combined with EMCs total support of the
hardware and its software, allows us to focus on the needs of our
business, not the needs of our infrastructure."
All-Flash VxRail Appliances Generally Available
The
mass adoption of flash is driven by the desire to run an
increasing number of virtual workloads on fewer physical
machines combined with the new economics of Flash storage.
All-flash VxRail Appliances extend the industry's broadest
all-flash portfolio to hyper-converged use cases. EMC is now
shipping a full range of all-flash VxRail Appliances that enable
customers to modernize their data center and
remote office deployments with as little as 3.8TB of flash to
more than 76TB – over 2X more flash than any other hyper-converged
appliance. Additionally customers can
combine appliances to meet growing demands – a
64-node all-flash cluster that delivers 1,792 cores and 1,216 TB of
raw storage, making it the industry's most powerful HCIA to date,
maximizing performance and scale for applications that demand low
latency.
Through the use of the latest 3-D or vertical NAND (3-D
NAND) technologies and VMWare Virtual SAN 6.2,
VxRail Appliances deliver much higher flash capacity than
any other competitive offering at a lower price. VMware
Virtual SAN 6.2 features an advanced performance optimization
architecture that now adds data efficiency capabilities
– deduplication, compression and erasure coding – for
all-flash storage that delivers highly cost-efficient performance
while optimizing the use of flash drives. As a result, VxRail
Appliances all-flash configurations have reached the
crossover point between flash and magnetic
storage pricing and are offered at the
same price per raw gigabyte
as hybrid appliances.
Analyst Quote
Stu
Miniman, Senior Analyst, Wikibon
"Users in the
Wikibon community have embraced hyper-converged infrastructure in
order to simplify operations. EMC is leveraging its experience
as the leader in converged infrastructure and go-to-market
expertise to be successful in the hyper-converged infrastructure
appliance market with the VCE VxRail Appliance Family. Early
feedback from customers is that the functionality, flexibility and
pricing of these hybrid and all-flash appliances are well
positioned to address this rapidly maturing segment of the
marketplace."
EMC Executive Quote
Chad
Sakac, President, VCE, the Converged Platforms Division of
EMC.
"The incredible demand for the VxRail Appliance Family
illustrates that organizations of all sizes in all industry sectors
need a hyper-converged appliance that brings together the best of
EMC and VMware in a single product family with one point of support
that delivers simplicity and scalability at the right price.
Clearly customers have been waiting for a hyper-converged
infrastructure appliance that seamlessly integrates with VMware to
extend and simplify their existing virtualized environments. With
the general availability of the all-flash VxRail Appliances that
offer unbelievably good economics EMC can address even more
customer requirements."
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- Hear from FujiFilm Medical Systems and Land Rover BAR why
they are utilizing VxRail Appliances
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ABOUT EMC
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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
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