VCE Unveils New Converged Infrastructure Capabilities

VCE Company LLC, announced several new converged infrastructure capabilities that help increase business agility and accelerate the transformation of enterprise data centers by simplifying the deployment, protection and management of cloud-based applications and data.

VCE Vblock Systems are integrated and virtualized cloud infrastructure systems. Using technologies from Cisco, EMC and VMware, they address business, operational and financial challenges by enabling faster application development and deployment, improving utilization and lowering operational costs.

VCE pioneered intelligent converged infrastructure platforms with hundreds of Vblock systems in production at mission-critical enterprise and service provider data centers worldwide.

VCE is introducing:

• Hybrid cloud and dynamic data center models through Vblock system integration with EMC VPLEX virtual storage for data mobility. This enables entire data center workloads to be dynamically moved across geographies and service providers. By pooling the resources of multiple Vblock systems, applications and data can be transparently shared and shifted as business needs dictate. At EMC World, VCE showed how the walls of a data center can be stretched over distance, by dynamically moving intense workloads between several exhibits.
• Simplified data protection for a converged infrastructure that encompasses backup, recovery, replication, BC and data mobility for virtual environments. Vblock Data Protection is a new integrated element of a Vblock infrastructure deployment. It incorporates EMC Avamar and EMC Data Domain backup and recovery solutions; EMC RecoverPoint replication software with CDP and VPLEX for workload mobility and business continuity.
• Enterprise-class converged infrastructure features in the new Vblock Series 700 Model LX system, which is architected for virtualization and cloud environments supporting mission-critical applications running thousands of virtual machines simultaneously. It is a cost-effective platform that delivers performance, availability and automation that results in an integrated, virtualized environment. The Vblock 700LX system includes the EMC VMAX 10K storage array, the latest Cisco UCS server and Cisco Nexus switching technologies, and support for VMware vSphere 5.
• Streamlined deployment of infrastructure to support cloud applications with new EMC Unified Infrastructure Manager features. New capabilities include more storage infrastructure services, expanded VMware integration and the ability to centrally monitor multiple Vblock systems.

Dave Vellante, senior analyst, Wikibon, said: "Cloud and IT-as-a-service are two of the big IT megatrends, driving a transformation that is underway in data centers. Companies like VCE are at the forefront of innovation with technologies that help customers more easily transition from stovepipe legacy systems to cloud and virtual environments. This evolution is an imperative for organizations that want to build more flexible infrastructure to support applications across the entire portfolio while improving asset utilization, reducing risk and lowering overall costs."

Todd Pavone, EVP, VCE, said: "VCE’s mission is to help customers transform their data centers and take full advantage of the benefits of cloud computing using industry leading technologies. VCE is bringing together the most innovative capabilities available into a single system that is easy to deploy, easy to manage and provides enterprise-level availability and data protection."

Brian Gallagher, president, Enterprise Storage Division, EMC, said: "The EMC VMAX Family offers a lineup of the world’s most comprehensive Powerful, Trusted and Smart storage solutions for enterprises building their Hybrid Clouds. With the new Vblock 700LX system, VCE continues to deliver solutions enabling cloud and IT-as-a-Service. By fully utilizing EMC VPLEX and the EMC VMAX 10K, VCE’s converged infrastructure delivers a fast and efficient way for IT organizations to transform their data centers."

William BJ Jenkins, president, Backup and Recovery Systems Division, EMC, said: "As enterprises transform their data centers using converged infrastructure systems, new requirements arise for advanced data protection solutions that provide high performance, tight integration and simplified management. VCE has chosen to integrate Avamar and Data Domain into its Vblock systems, enabling optimized VMware backup and recovery that provides unmatched performance, reliability and scale to meet the demands of a highly virtualized environment."