EMC Supports Intel Xeon E5 for VMAX Service Provider Platform

At Intel Developer Forum, EMC Corporation extended its technology and continued commitment to the company’s partnership with Intel Corp.www.intel.com by announcing that the EMC VMAX SP platform and Kazeon, EMC’s SourceOne eDiscovery platform are now powered by Intel’s Xeon E5 processor.

It also reinforced its commitment to interoperable industry standards through support of the NVMe standard in the company’s next-generation Project Thunder platform.

EMC Supports New NVM Express Interface Standard:
NVMe is an optimized, high performance, scalable industry-standard host controller interface designed for enterprise and client PCIe SSDs. NVMe by delivers unprecedented iIOPS with lower TCO.

Continuing EMC’s commitment in the latest flash technology and to promoting open standards to advance the industry, EMC’s Project Thunder, a server network attached appliance built of high-speed PCIe flash and optimized for persistent data stores with performance intensive workloads, will support the NVMe standard. Project Thunder will build upon the PCIe technology delivered in EMC VFCache and the new NVMe industry standard to take advantage of the power of Flash through a dedicated Server Networked Flash-based appliance.

New Xeon E5-based EMC Technologies:

• VMAX Service Provider (VMAX SP) – Announced in May 2012, the VMAX SP platform is purpose-built for service providers, enabling the rapid and cost-effective purchase and deployment of a storage infrastructure to power new cloud services. It leverages the proven capabilities of VMAX. With the performance and energy efficiency delivered by the Xeon E5 processor, VMAX SP delivers multi-tenanted, powerful, trusted and smart storage to improve operational efficiency and allow service providers to focus on their core business-creating new and differentiated services for customers.
• SourceOne eDiscovery – EMC has embedded Xeon E5 processor into Kazeon, SourceOne eDiscovery platform, to accelerate performance for identifying collecting, analyzing, and reviewing terabytes of electronically stored information (ESI) as potential evidence for criminal and civil litigation proceedings.

David Tuhy, GM, Storage Division, Intel Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, said: "Intel and EMC have partnered for many years to develop next generation Data Center technologies that enable customers to transform their use of Information Technology, especially around Cloud and Big Data infrastructure. The high-performance processing power, along with Intel Integrated I/O and advanced storage features, makes the Intel Xeon E5 product family an ideal choice for storage solutions. Together we provide the intelligence and compute power required to enable the innovative technologies that EMC is showcasing at IDF, helping to achieve new levels of productivity and efficiency that will benefit our mutual customers."

Jeremy Burton, EVP, Product Operations and Marketing, EMC, said: "EMC and Intel have been strategic partners for 17 years and will continue to work closely to develop industry-leading products and solutions that help customers realize maximum IT efficiency. EMC continues to lead the market in performance and efficiency because we utilize the latest Intel innovations, which helps our customers take full advantage of the revolutionary wave of IT that EMC is leading: Cloud, Big Data and Trust. These three things are transforming the way information technology is architected, deployed and consumed, which holds massive opportunity for our customers and for our business."

EMC at IDF
EMC is a Gold Sponsor of IDF and will showcase technologies powered by Intel, as well as lead several speaking sessions for customers to gain insight on a range of topics, including cloud, big data, unified storage, flash storage, and backup and recovery.

Demonstrations include:

• EMC Greenplum/Big Data: Experts will provide an overview of the Greenplum Analytics Workbench (AWB) powered by Xeon processors – a 1000-node Hadoop cluster and highlight how the AWB can be accessed by developers and researchers working on cutting-edge Big Data projects.
• VMAX SP: Experts will showcase how the Xeon E5-based VMAX SP is pre-packaged into service-level options, delivering specialized QoS, multi-tenanted, metered platform.
• Unified Storage: Attendees will learn how to incorporate public cloud technology into their information management strategy by using EMC’s new Cloud Tiering Appliance to transparently move inactive data to the cloud, freeing up primary NAS capacity. It will demonstrate how its Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA) performs policy-driven file movement from NetApp arrays and EMC Celerra to EMC’s VNX unified storage systems or to Isilon systems.
• EMC Backup and Recovery Solutions: Intel processors help EMC reach the performance to be the industry leader in the Purpose Built Backup Appliance (PBBA) market with 65.5% market share. By leveraging Intel processors, Backup and Recovery Systems help customers transform their data centers by protecting their data whether virtual or physical, with next generation products like Avamar and Data Domain.
• NVM Express Showcase: EMC will showcase an NVMe-ready Project Thunder solution featuring an Intel PCIe card-based SSD.
• Intel Data Center Community: It features a live demo (functional showcase) of the Secure Cloud On Boarding solution. The reference stack on the floor will represent two data centers and will use the latest Intel Xeon E5-based servers with Intel Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), VMware ESX 5.1, EMC VPLEX, RSA Archer and HyTrust.