EMC Embraces VMware vSphere 6, Pledges Expanded Support to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Adoption

HOPKINTON, Mass., Feb. 4, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

News Summary:

• EMC announces support for VMware vSphere 6 with further enhancements within its product and solution roadmap.
• EMC storage platforms including VMAX, VNX, VNXe, VPLEX and XtremIO will support VMware vSphere 6 in 1Q2015.
• EMC platforms optimized to leverage higher performance and scale of VMware vSphere 6 to virtualize scale-up and scale-out apps with confidence, redefine availability and simplify the virtual data center.
• New features in VMware vSphere 6 to benefit hybrid cloud environments with increased scale and enhanced management across geographically distributed private and public clouds.

Full Story:

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced support for VMware vSphere 6 within its product and solution roadmap and development cycle, enabling customers to leverage EMC's leading storage platforms to virtualize scale-up and scale-out applications with confidence, redefine availability, and simplify the virtual data center. EMC storage platforms including VMAX®, VNX®, VNXe, VPLEX® and XtremIO™ will offer support for VMware vSphere 6 this quarter. Later this year EMC will also extend key vSphere 6 capabilities across additional EMC storage platforms and hybrid cloud solutions. 

EMC storage platforms supporting VMware environments will leverage a variety of powerful new vSphere 6 capabilities designed to help drive down data center cost, increase system and application uptime, and drastically simplify the way IT runs the data center. 

EMC Storage Platforms Supporting VMware vSphere 6

• EMC VMAX3: Architected for massive scale and delivering trusted data services across the storage infrastructure, VMAX3™ service level-based management allows vSphere administrators to set and deliver performance targets for applications and provides enterprise data services on a per application basis.
  
  
• EMC VNX/VNXe: VNX/VNXe and vSphere 6 combine for exceptional efficiency and flexibility in the midrange by providing VM-level copy, data deduplication, and workload mobility over distance.
  
  
• EMC VPLEX: Accelerated IOPs at low latencies designed to ensure non-stop operations and continuous availability of scale-up and scale-out applications virtualized with vSphere 6.
  
  
• EMC XtremIO: Enabling transformational workload consolidation and agility benefits through a scale-out all-flash array, XtremIO is engineered to enable the entire landscapes of diverse Tier 1 applications like databases and SAP to be consolidated in vSphere 6 and without risking their SLAs. Beyond unmatched infrastructure simplification, this enables instant copies for real-time analytics, DBaaS, and application admin self-service.

Key VMware Capabilities to Enhance Hybrid Cloud Environments

New features within VMware vSphere 6 are designed to enable enhanced compute, management and storage capabilities to support both traditional and next-generation applications. EMC believes a number of new features in VMware vSphere 6 may also benefit hybrid cloud environments, including:

• New vRealize Business 6.0 Standard and vRealize Operations 6.0 within VMware vCloud Suite 6 offer cost transparency and monitoring capabilities respectively for the private cloud and can be extended to the public cloud.
• VMware vRealize Automation public cloud extensions can simplify the process for provisioning and managing workloads in the public cloud.
• vSphere Common Library for Content Storage and Management can enable customers greater scalability and more unified management across geographically distributed private and public clouds.
• Virtual Graphics Processing Unit (vGPU) is designed to accelerate graphics processing in VDI and hybrid cloud environments.
• VMware Integrated OpenStack distribution can enable enterprise-grade OpenStack within hybrid cloud environments running in parallel on VMware infrastructure.
• vSphere Virtual Volumes enables deeper levels of integration between vSphere and storage arrays and can extend Software-Defined Storage policy automation to hybrid cloud environments and supported EMC storage platforms. This feature is designed to offer increased control of storage operations and data services at the VM level while maintaining all the gold-standard information storage performance, protection and management inherent within EMC storage platforms.
• Customers can leverage EMC Elastic Cloud Storage™ to provide Object Storage capabilities for OpenStack environments using VMware Integrated OpenStack.

Availability:
EMC storage platforms including VMAX, VNX, VNXe, VPLEX and XtremIO will offer support for VMware vSphere 6 in 1Q2015.

EMC Executive Quote:
Jonathan Siegal, Vice President, Marketing, Core Technologies Division, EMC Corporation

"VMware has once again changed the game in developing the world's leading virtualization platform to power the Software-Defined Data Center. The combination of EMC platforms and VMware vSphere 6 provides exceptional capabilities for virtual environments. With vSphere 6, supported EMC platforms can reach new levels of scalability, efficiency and mobility and also lays the foundation to enable an entirely new era for the development of desktop virtualization apps."

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, VMAX, VMAX3, VNX, VNXe, VPLEX and XtremIO are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC Corporation in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.  All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

VMware, vRealize, Virtual Volumes and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

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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