Virtustream Storage Cloud: Global Cloud Storage Platform

Virtustream, Inc., an EMC Federation company, launched Virtustream Storage Cloud, a global cloud storage platform offering enterprises of resiliency and performance combined with true Web scale.

Resilient, enterprise cloud storage platform
Storage Cloud is built for the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and public sector organizations, which need to secure, manage, and store mission-critical data in the cloud.

It provides a hyper-scale storage platform with enterprise resiliency and performance. This new platform has been tested, with underlying elements running successfully in production for several years as the primary object storage platform for a select set of customers managing multiple exabytes of data, with hundreds of billions of objects under management and an event monitoring system that processes more than 35 billion events per day.

This offering builds from this hardened and customer-tested base. In addition to availability as a Web-scale object storage platform, Storage Cloud provides cloud extensibility for on-premises EMC Corp.‘s storage, providing customers with simple and efficient tiering, long-term backup retention, and cold storage in the cloud, with single-source EMC support.

It has been designed from the ground up to support a range of enterprise use cases.

Key features include:

• Engineered-in resiliency delivering up to 13x9s of data durability

• Architected and optimized for performance, particularly for large object sizes

• Available read-after-failure provides resiliency and data integrity even in case of single site failure

• Extensibility of on-premises primary storage ad backup to the cloud

EMC offerings that plan to support platform include:

• Data Domain: Using Data Domain Cloud Tier, automatically move backup data directly from EMC protection storage to Storage Cloud for cost effective long-term backup retention.

• EMC Data Protection Suite: Tier backup data from EMC protection software to Storage Cloud for long-term backup retention.

• VMAX, XtremIO and Unity systems: Tier data to the cloud to reduce on-site primary storage footprint while maintaining optimal performance through on premise client-side caching and Storage Cloud.

• Isilon: Archive cold data to the cloud using on premises Isilon CloudPools policies to govern the placement and retention of tiered files to Storage Cloud.

Additionally, organizations soon will be able to deploy Web-scale object storage for cloud-native applications, leveraging a simple, S3-compatible application programming interface.

“Enterprises are generating exponentially-growing data and looking for cost-effective strategies for long-term backup retention and archival storage, in addition to seeking resilient, cost-effective and scalable platforms for cloud-native application data,” said Rodney Rogers, CEO, Virtustream. “Virtustream Storage cloud will provide a scalable, enterprise platform to meet our customers’ cloud storage needs for both second and third platform applications.“

“Any modern data center must extend seamlessly to the cloud, which is why we’re making cloud connectivity and cloud tiering an inherent capability of all of our products,” said Jeremy Burton, president, products and marketing, EMC. “With Virtustream Storage Cloud, and the cloud capabilities in our storage products, we’re able to offer our customers even more choice: they can tier to an EMC managed public cloud, EMC private cloud or third-party public cloud of their choice.“

Syncplicity selects Virtustream Storage Cloud
Syncplicity LLC, provider of the hybrid enterprise file sync and share market, has teamed up with Virtustream and will use Storage Cloud to meet its customers’ mobility and security needs.

“We are very excited about our collaboration with Virtustream, offering a complete Hybrid EFSS solution enabling rapid large-scale deployments,” said Jon Huberman, CEO, Syncplicity. “The combination of Syncplicity’s industry-leading hybrid EFSS solution with Virtustream’s highly secure and scalable storage cloud delivers unrivalled mobile access user experience anytime, anywhere and on any device, with the security and data residency compliance demanded by enterprises, while at the same time enabling IT infrastructure digital transformation initiatives and significant cost take out.“

Like the company, Syncplicity is built to support a hybrid cloud infrastructure, making it easily extensible, highly flexible and economical for customers. With this relationship, Syncplicity will expand its current hybrid cloud offering to enable compliance-conscious organizations to more effectively store and manage their data, both in the cloud and on-premises. Virtustream’s extensive global footprint lets enterprise customers take advantage of Syncplicity’s hybrid approach to file sync and share no matter how dispersed their operations.

Virtustream Storage Cloud will be available on May 10, 2016 with nodes in the United States and Europe.