EMC VSPEX Infrastructure Supports 2x More VMs at Same Price

Joined by partners and customers, EMC Corporation kicked off a 24-hour, around-the-world live launch in Milan, Italy announcing new technologies that help give IT infrastructure teams the speed they need to lead their IT transformation.

It announced that the VSPEX Proven Infrastructure portfolio has been enhanced to leverage the new VNX systems and a range of new data protection capabilities across 18 existing and 4 new VSPEX configurations.

The predictable performance of VSPEX has been further enhanced with the inclusion of the new VNX 5400, 5600 and 5800 Series as part of the solution designed to enable support of up to 1,000 VMs, 2x more than ever before for VSPEX workloads at twice the value. These new VSPEX configurations powered by VNX speed transformation to the cloud by driving simplicity and offering more VMs per system, thereby reducing time-intensive planning, sizing and configuration by administrators.

Fueled by the need to shorten time to value, reduce IT overhead and streamline management, EMC has shipped 3,600 VSPEX and enabled 3,000 customers who have adopted and deployed the simple, efficient and flexible reference architecture built on EMC’s storage systems and data protection products, along with virtualization, server, and network technology from alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.

New and Enhanced VSPEX Choices
Eighteen enhanced and new VSPEX configurations, representing popular use cases, leverage the new VNX systems announced as well as a number of data protection capabilities. These configurations are being updated to also include the technology from the company’s partners.

Among the enhanced configurations are:

• VSPEX for Citrix end user computing is being enhanced with Citrix XenDesktop 7 – Expected to be available in the second half of 2013.
• Enhanced data protection capabilities for VSPEX with Avamar 7 and new Data Domain DD2500 DD4200 systems – Expected to be available in the second half of 2013.
• VSPEX for VMware private cloud is being enhanced with vSphere 5.5 – Scheduled to be available this month upon vSphere 5.5 availability.
• VSPEX for VMware end user computing is being enhanced with VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2013.
• VSPEX for virtualized SQL Server 2012 and VSPEX for virtualized Oracle 11g – available.
• VSPEX for virtualized SharePoint 2013 and VSPEX for virtualized Exchange 2013 – Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2013.

Four new configurations across two new solutions expand the benefits of VSPEX within customer environments.

They include:

• End User Computing – Three new VSPEX configurations for end user computing with XenDesktop 7 on Hyper-V – Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2013.
• Continuous Replication – VSPEX Proven Infrastructure for continuous replication with RecoverPoint – Scheduled to be available in the second half of 2013.

Integrated EMC Data Protection Products
The backup and data protection options for VSPEX are becoming more comprehensive. To deliver the backup and recovery technology all VSPEX solutions will be refreshed to leverage the new Data Domain DD 2500, DD 4200, Avamar 7, and vSphere Data Protection Advanced. To deliver CDP and availability for the applications running in VSPEX environments, EMC also is refreshing the VSPEX with VPLEX solution to leverage data protection capabilities of the new VNX and is announcing a new VSPEX with RecoverPoint solution. Now customers will be able to choose the backup and data protection option that fits their company size along with their data and application availability requirements.

William Huber, VP sales and principal architect, Panurgy, said: "We’ve seen a clear trend toward converged and integrated systems. Our customers want the benefits of cloud, but they need an easy ramp to get there. With VSPEX we can quickly deliver an integrated, end-to-end solution that supports their business goals. The new VSPEX solutions reaffirm EMC’s commitment to helping us rapidly deliver all of the benefits of cloud computing in a flexible and proven best-of-breed solution to our customers."

In-Jae Lee, IT team manager, Segyung Britestone Co., Limited (Korea), said: "With VSPEX, we finished our private cloud deployment faster than expected because we skipped the steps for design, installation, and configuration. This shortened our project schedule by 43%, lowered our TCO by 35% and our environment is now 100% virtualized. VSPEX dramatically accelerated our journey to cloud computing."

Josh Bauer, assistant director, network operations, Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. (USA), said: "At Acorda Therapeutics time to market is everything – our patients depend on us to deliver quickly. With VSPEX running our data center, we spend far less time managing our IT infrastructure, and far more time innovating through IT to ensure our customers get what they need."

Jeremy Burton, EVP, product operations and marketing, EMC, said: "VSPEX is a simple, efficient and flexible reference architecture solution that has accelerated time to value for over 3000 customers already. The solutions announced help ensure that our customers can continue to easily and quickly deploy the latest best-of-breed cloud technology to accelerate their journey to the cloud."

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