HOPKINTON, Mass., Nov. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
News Highlights:
- EMC introduces newly integrated and extended cloud capabilities
across its entire storage and data protection portfolio to store
and protect data to, from and within the cloud.
- EMC delivers out-of-the-box enterprise cloud solutions for EMC
VMAX and EMC VNX with expanded support for private and public cloud
services.
- EMC expands data protection features to ensure data is
protected wherever it resides and regardless of what happens.
Full Story:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today
announced the immediate availability of a broad range of products
and solutions designed to seamlessly connect primary storage and
data protection systems to private and public clouds. As a result,
organizations will be better equipped to take advantage of both the
agility and unlimited scalability of public cloud services and the
control and security of a private cloud infrastructure.
As IT departments rush to keep pace with the demands of the
rapidly changing business, they often rely on both the private
cloud – because it is trusted, controlled and reliable – and the
public cloud – because of its low cost and near limitless
capacity. Cloud-enabled storage and data protection
solutions, like those being announced by EMC today, empower
customers to deploy a trusted storage environment where data can be
automatically tiered to both public and private clouds.
EMC is extending its out-of-the box enterprise cloud solutions
delivering choice, flexibility and peace-of-mind with
easy-to-deploy, easy-to-manage cloud tiering to and from a number
of storage platforms.
EMC is also launching a number of new data protection features
that provide customers with the tools they need to ensure their
data is protected wherever it resides, regardless of what might
happen.
New Products and Solutions Delivering Cloud Integration
Across the Data Center:
EMC is integrating new and expanded cloud capabilities across
its entire storage and data protection portfolio including
solutions to store and protect data to, from and within the
cloud.
- Tiering Data to/from the Cloud - EMC's VMAX®
and VNX® storage platforms deliver simple, automated
tiering to and from private and public clouds. EMC is further
extending the integration reach of VMAX with enhancements to its
FAST.X™ tiering solution, enabling customers to achieve lower total
cost of ownership by automatically tiering to public clouds from
both EMC and non-EMC storage. Utilizing EMC
CloudArray® technology and simply connecting a VMAX to a
SAN and a network switch, customers can immediately connect the
power of the cloud to their data centers and automate the
allocation of data to storage targets on-premise and in the cloud,
based on their own service level objectives.
Price-sensitive customers are able to achieve similar functionality
on a smaller scale by substituting VNX for VMAX in their
infrastructure configuration and adding EMC VPLEX®.
VPLEX cloud tiering extends intelligent data mobility services to
the cloud, enabling VNX to non-disruptively tier data in and out of
public and private clouds.
Both VMAX – with new integrated cloud tiering – and VNX– leveraging
new cloud tiering – now offer expanded support for private and
public cloud providers. EMC now supports VMware vCloud Air,
Microsoft Azure, Amazon S3 and Google Cloud Platform – all while
delivering the performance and peace of mind that customers expect
from enterprise storage.
- Protecting Data to/from the Cloud – CloudBoost™ 2.0
seamlessly extends customers' existing EMC data protection
solutions, including the Data Protection Suite™ and Data
Domain®, to elastic, resilient, scale-out cloud storage,
enabling customers to leverage the economic benefits of the public
cloud for long-term data retention. CloudBoost now features
enhanced overall performance, scalability and manageability, making
it even easier for customers to cache data locally and move it to
the cloud. CloudBoost offers 3x faster throughput and 15x more data
capacity than previous versions. Furthermore, CloudBoost enables
deduplication and incremental restores simultaneously, without the
need for complex cloud compute infrastructure.
- Protecting Data in the Cloud - Spanning® by
EMC now features enhanced restore and security capabilities along
with new regional deployment within the European Union. Spanning
Backup® for Salesforce delivers enhanced SaaS data
restoration capabilities making it easier for customers to quickly
and easily restore lost or deleted data. And, Spanning's new
European data destination option helps organizations
comply with European data sovereignty laws and
regulations.
- Data Protection as a Service - EMC service providers and
EMC customers who deploy data protection as a Service (DPaaS) in
their own private clouds will benefit from new features being
introduced into the latest version of the Data Domain®
operating system DD OS 5.7, including enhanced capacity management,
secure multi-tenancy, and a dense shelf configuration that
dramatically reduces total cost of ownership.
- Simplified Data Protection Management – Finally, EMC is
announcing the next generation of its NetWorker® data
protection software. NetWorker 9 introduces a new universal
policy engine designed that automates and simplifies the data
protection process regardless of where the data resides.
Using the policy engine, EMC customers will be able to automate the
process of moving protection data through tiers of storage, with
protected data stored locally for immediate access and cold data
systematically handed off to more cost-efficient cloud targets.
Additionally, NetWorker 9 now also integrates with EMC
ProtectPoint™ and delivers integrated block-level protection
for Microsoft and Linux environments.
- Extending Data Lakes to the Cloud – Last week, EMC
announced EMC CloudPools™, a new feature for EMC Isilon®
that allows customers to extend their cold data to public
and private clouds. CloudPools enables Isilon to
tier data seamlessly to public clouds such as those enabled by
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure
and Virtustream® services and private clouds with
EMC ECS™ or a remote Isilon cluster. The tiering happens
without the need for a cloud gateway, providing
cost-effective, easy and flexible hybrid cloud
capability.
Today's cloud enablement announcements come as part of a wider
group of feature launches from EMC. To read more about them,
please visit The Core blog.
Customer Quotes:
Richard
Hoare, Technology Manager, Sempre Technologies Ltd
"EMC NetWorker with CloudBoost has changed the
way that we implement long-term retention of backups.
Previously, the most cost-effective tier of storage we used was
tape, but that came with its own challenges in the form of handing
costs, security and longevity. CloudBoost allows us to unlock
elastic, scale-out cloud storage, from a variety of vendors, as a
seamless extension of our protection storage network. This
saves us time and money – as well as delivering a
solution that meets our needs both now and in the
future."
Analyst Quote:
Mark
Peters, Practice Director & Senior Analyst, Enterprise
Strategy Group
"Businesses need strategically capable partners to help them to
evolve and manage their storage strategies, in order to move
forward both pragmatically and optimally in a world of spiraling
data volumes and demands. With this announcement, EMC is
providing customers with solutions that allow them to better
protect their current and future investments in storage
technologies whether in their own data centers and/or in the
cloud."
Executive Quote:
Guy
Churchward, President, Core Technologies, EMC
"Many businesses have seen huge benefits from strategically
moving data and workloads to the cloud. However, this often
means sacrificing some control over the data. Can you move
your data across public clouds? Can you intelligently manage
your data through its lifecycle from flash to disk to cloud – and
then move it back if you need it? And how do you protect
it? Only EMC has the breadth and depth of portfolio to
empower customers to take control of their data and achieve the
greatest efficiencies."
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 www.EMC.com.
EMC, CloudArray, CloudBoost, CloudPools, Data Domain, Data
Protection Suite, ECS, FAST.X, Isilon, Networker, ProtectPoint,
Spanning, Spanning Backup, VMAX, VNX, and Virtustream are
registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in
the United States and other
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