 "EMC Enhances Virtual Storage With VPLEX")
EMC Corporation has unveiled a new technology that significantly advances Virtual Storage and will enable dramatic new models of computing. It has released EMC VPLEX.
EMC VPLEX combines scale-out clustering and advanced data caching with unique distributed cache coherence intelligence to allow data to be accessed and shared across hosts and clusters within and across data centers. In addition, VPLEX is architected to be “array aware” to preserve investments in existing storage infrastructure and software functionality while adding new value through federation and the ability to pool resources over distance. EMC’s approach to distributed cache coherency is the unique technology that addresses the inherent challenges of latency, bandwidth and consistency that arise when regularly accessing and relocating large amounts of information over distances in real time.
EMC VPLEX Local Features:
- Non-disruptive, transparent data mobility within, across and between EMC and non-EMC storage platforms within a single site/data center.
- Simplifies recurring information movement and improves storage utilization.
- Features a single cluster with up to 4 VPLEX Engines (8 Directors) with support for up to 8,000 virtualised storage volumes.
“VPLEX is groundbreaking technology and that will change the way data centres are designed and managed. It’s a core component of EMC’s Virtual Storage vision and will do to storage what server virtualisation has done to computing and will provide game changing levels of efficiency and flexibility. The ability to share, move and access large amounts of data regardless of location is a key element of the Journey to the Private Cloud. VPLEX technology will enable follow the sun computing, the relocating of workloads to low-cost energy regions or moving them out of the way of approaching storms – in general, IT environments will be more dynamic and flexible than ever before,” said Patrick Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer,EMC Information Infrastructure Products.