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EMC and Subsidiary VMware Join Forces Around Software-Defined Storage

Collaborating on new server-based storage infrastructure and Virtual SAN

As customers continue their march toward simplified IT infrastructure, lower costs and increased business agility, EMC Corporation and VMware, Inc. at VMworld 2013 announced an investment and commitment focused on advancement of software-defined storage architectures and emerging models for the way applications consume storage in virtualized environments.

Initial offerings emerging from this software-defined storage collaboration will focus on the SMB and SME markets. In these markets it is common for customers to use vSphere singularly across a set of workloads, making the simplicity and tight integration of VMware Virtual SAN with VMware vCenter Server compelling. The efforts will focus on joint R&D projects, the creation of joint solutions, and joint test and validation labs.

Offerings emerging from the collaboration are targeted to span customer use cases for implementing software-defined storage in VDI, test/dev and DR environments. Each targeted use case will be optimized for deployment on VMware Virtual SAN infrastructure, supported by storage policy-based management and featuring reduced TCO through the use of low-cost server-side storage.

To ensure integration and execution, the two firms have initiated and are building out geographically distributed development labs focused on product definition, compatibility testing, and the optimization of EMC, VMware and third-party technologies.

EMC provides customers running VMware software with the availability, protection, and security needed to virtualize and gain competitive advantage while making it easier for customers to adopt cloud computing and virtualization technologies to run VMware software in next-generation cloud infrastructures with increasing levels of automation.

Dave Vellante, CEO and co-founder, Wikibon, said: "EMC’s collaboration with VMware around VMware Virtual SAN promises a compelling software-defined storage value proposition for smaller organizations with fewer resources. Critical HA and migration services, with granular, policy-based control at the VM level, will be possible without the complexity and expense of large storage networks. Importantly, validated, tested and proven solutions emerging from this software-led initiative will enable IT pros to focus resources on tasks other than troubleshooting storage."

Jeremy Burton, EVP, of product operations and marketing, EMC, said: "EMC and VMware together are defining a new class of highly integrated storage infrastructure to reduce cost and complexity in VMware environments for SMBs and SMEs. A best-of-breed offering based on the combination of VMware Virtual SAN with EMC’s market leading storage hardware and software portfolio will help expand the market opportunity for both companies."

Raghu Raghuram, EVP, cloud infrastructure and management, VMware, said: "VMware and EMC are helping drive transformative change to software-defined storage in virtualized environments. Our new collaboration with EMC is designed to help customers adopt VMware Virtual SAN and build storage architectures that are simpler and more efficient while delivering increased agility and flexibility."

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