LAS VEGAS, May 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC WORLD 2016
News Summary:
- VCE VxRack System 1000 with new Neutrino Nodes delivers fast,
low-risk deployment of on-premises cloud environments to give
customers more control and visibility
- Enables provisioning of cloud-native IaaS environments in less
than one hour
- Designed to support multiple cloud-native IaaS and data stacks
including OpenStack VMware Photon Platform and Apache Hadoop
- Provides IaaS foundation for the new EMC Native Hybrid Cloud –
a fully engineered turnkey developer platform that accelerates and
simplifies cloud-native application development and deployment
using Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- New Neutrino Nodes complement existing FLEX Nodes and SDDC
Nodes
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EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today
announced it has expanded its VCE® VxRack™ System 1000 to provide a
turnkey cloud-native IaaS experience through new 'Neutrino' nodes.
The flexibility of the VxRack System is rooted in its rack-scale
design, allowing enterprises, ISV's and Service Providers to
leverage different node types for different workloads as they
accelerate their digital transformation initiatives. The VxRack
System enables workloads to operate at scale by providing a fully
engineered hyper-converged rack-scale system – compute, storage and
networking – with integrated management. This delivers simplified
data center operations, greatly reduced total cost of ownership
(TCO) compared to a traditional SAN, and easy
scaling-on-demand.
The VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes makes the complex simple.
Customers can deploy an enterprise-grade cloud-native IaaS in just
a few days with built-in automation as well as dynamically
provision resources for the first time in less than one hour. In
addition, the software automation layer enables simple "day two"
operations including robust monitoring and reporting, single click
software upgrades, and single vendor support of these open-source,
cloud-native IaaS and data stacks, automating what many customers
have discovered is a very complex changing ecosystem and
operational tasks that require rare and deep expertise.
VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes is a foundation for multiple
cloud-native services including OpenStack, VMware Photon Platform,
and Apache Hadoop. VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes serves as one
of the underlying IaaS options for the new EMC® Native Hybrid
Cloud™ (NHC™) platform announced today. NHC is an engineered
turnkey platform that delivers developer and infrastructure
services in as few as two days. NHC enables the DevOps model with
an "it just works" experience and brings developers a rich set of
services to rapidly build, deploy, scale and manage the
cloud-native application life cycle while providing the needed
visibility, control and financial insights to IT.
VCE VxRack System 1000 Series
The VxRack System is
currently the only hyper-converged rack-scale engineered system
with pre-integrated networking that satisfies the scalability and
management requirements of today's workload environments. It allows
customers to reduce cost and risk by buying versus building an
infrastructure platform that can run traditional business
applications or deploy cloud-native applications. EMC provides the
ability to map the VxRack System to specific application
environments via three software-defined nodes – Neutrino Nodes,
FLEX Nodes and SDDC Nodes. Nodes are optimized for their workloads
and are tightly integrated with the VxRack System architecture and
management and orchestration to deliver a fully tested,
pre-configured, hyper-converged system with automated provisioning,
simplified management and robust reporting capabilities at data
center and Service Provider scale – with hundreds of nodes. The
VxRack System supports deployment of a variety of application
workloads on the same infrastructure, allowing IT to rapidly
deliver new services while improving overall agility and
efficiency.
VxRack System 1000 Node Options
In addition to the new
Neutrino Nodes, EMC provides FLEX Nodes and SDDC Nodes that are
optimized for specific workloads:
- VxRack with FLEX Nodes leverages EMC® ScaleIO® software-defined
storage to create a flexible, open and heterogeneous foundation for
delivering IaaS at scale. It is optimized for enterprises data
centers and Service Providers that want an easy deploy
software-defined architecture optimized for a wide range of
traditional enterprise workloads across a heterogeneous set of
abstraction models. As more nodes are added, throughput and IOPS
increase, simply and easily. Performance scales linearly and
bottlenecks are avoided. This system can start as small as a single
Node and can scale to many thousands of Nodes – delivering
thousands of CPU cores, more than a petabyte of RAM, many tens of
petabytes of storage capacity, and tens of millions of IOPS while
delivering the high performance and value along each metric
according to an ESG Lab Validation.
- VxRack with VMware SDDC Nodes is purpose-built for IT
organizations that have standardized on VMware software defined
datacenter cloud technologies and want the best foundation for a
wide variety of enterprise workloads. These VMware centric
enterprises data centers and Service Providers want an
easy-to-deploy software-defined architecture optimized for a wide
range of traditional enterprise workloads. The SDDC Nodes comprise
of hardware and software components including VMware vSphere
Enterprise, VMware Virtual SAN, VMware NSX, vCenter Server, and key
components of VMware vRealize Suite. The VMware technologies are
used in data centers at hundreds of thousands of mid- to the
largest- scale organizations. Customers gain single pane of glass
visibility and control for both physical and virtual
resources.
Regardless of the type of Node deployed, a VxRack System is
designed to give customers a competitive advantage with accelerated
time to market for new services and applications, and reduced IT
complexity to deliver speed, agility and security. The VxRack
System provides the following:
- Ability to start small (1/3 rack) and scale big (many racks,
hundreds or thousands of nodes) by quickly adding nodes in cost
effective increments to meet evolving demands.
- A fully integrated Cisco rack-scale spine-and-leaf network
fabric with pre-integrated physical networking that is architected
for extreme scalability, a distinct advantage at scale versus
hyper-converged appliances that leave the networking domain outside
the system and support boundary. Each Node type also brings
software-defined networking capabilities in addition to the
powerful physical network layer.
- A simple user interface to efficiently deploy, monitor, and
support system resources.
- Complete lifecycle management through pre-tested software and
hardware releases and upgrades.
- Software-defined storage, compute and networking for the
deployment of next generation mobile, cloud and mixed workloads
including traditional and cloud focused applications.
- More than 30 percent improved TCO compared to a traditional 30
percent through reduced resources for administration, elastic
expansion and non-disruptive software and hardware upgrades – in
addition to lower power, cooling, and floor space compared to
traditional infrastructure
VCE infrastructure with industry-leading lifecycle management
delivers an unmatched customer experience proven to reduce risk and
deliver data center transformation. VCE's extensive roadmap
planning, integration and interoperability testing take the
guesswork and complexity of future-proofing infrastructure,
enabling rapid technology adoption of hardware enhancements as well
as incorporation of emerging technologies such as EMC DSSD, which
is planned to be available in the VxRack System later this year to
dramatically accelerate performance for targeted workloads. The
VxRack System will also take advantage of the VCE
Vscale™ Architecture and VCE Vision® software
to provide data center scale resource pooling with consistent
converged operations and management. This unified data center
architecture that spans multiple locations and geographies adds
another critical dimension to scale and flexibility offered by
EMC.
Availability
VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes support
for OpenStack is orderable and available in Q3 2016. VxRack System
with Neutrino Nodes support for Photon Platform and Hadoop Apache
will be available next year. VxRack System 1000 is highly
customizable and configurations start at $300,000.
Customer Quote
Lance
Albertson, Director, Oregon State
University |Open Source Lab
"Our plan was to build
our own test and development platform for continuous integration
until we learned about the VxRack with Neutrino Nodes and how it
will reduce time, risk and costs associated with this project.
Having an OpenStack approach based on the VxRack System will
dramatically enhance the lab's ability to provide cloud-native
services with the agility, scale and reliability we need to truly
embrace digital transformation."
Market Industry Analyst Quote
Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst,
ESG
"Organizations need to drive out costs associated with
IT and one of the best ways to do this is to buy vs build
infrastructure. The VxRack System 1000 Series with its choice of
optimized nodes is making it possible for more workloads to run on
engineered systems so IT organizations can spend their time
delivering new services and applications that drive the business.
The new Neutrino Nodes are bringing the simplicity, predictability
and speed to cloud native IaaS environments."
EMC Executive Quote
Chad
Sakac, President, VCE, the Converged Platforms Division of
EMC.
"The VxRack System 1000 Series is helping IT
organizations solve challenges by providing new ways of serving
workloads associated with both traditional and growing web and
mobile applications. As open source technologies for the
development of cloud-native applications and services become more
prevalent, IT organizations need a stable platform like the VxRack
with Neutrino Nodes for onsite IaaS that can successfully run
production workloads."
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