 "EMC flashes new products to accelerate journey to hybrid cloud")
EMC India has announced significant new product releases across its Flash, enterprise storage and Scale-Out NAS portfolios aimed at helping companies accelerate their journey to the hybrid cloud. According to EMC, the new releases of XtremIO, VMAX3, Isilon OneFS, and the availability of ViPR 2.0, ViPR SRM 3.5, and the ECS appliance will help address key industry issues such as infrastructure silos, security and manageability. The aim is to empower organisations to harness the megatrends of social, cloud, mobile and big data to build new applications, without creating infrastructure silos.
Gartner expects that by 2018 hybrid cloud will be a common scenario in over 80 percent of end-user organizations in India with most enterprises looking at embracing it to drive cost efficiency and to increase profitability.
Abhijit Potnis, Director Technology Solutions - India and SAARC, said, “India is experiencing a shift in the way technology is consumed, transforming the Indian IT industry to be more agile and green. IT solution providers that can enable customers to leverage hybrid cloud advantages will have the competitive edge, because they will be able to manage the complex interdependences of different IT services and delivery models in organizations.”
Elaborating on one of the key launches, Sunil Brid, Director, Sales (Isilon), India & SAARC, said, “As per an industry study, more than half (57 percent) of Indian enterprises are planning to invest in BYOD (bring your own devices) and mobile technologies. This along with other trends will lead to exponential growth of unstructured data, compelling organizations to relook at their storage requirements. The Isilon scale-out Data Lake is EMC’s strategy to address this issue and help our customers drive business profitability.”
EMC announced the XtremIO 3.0 all-flash array, now offering more features and configurations, including a 5 TB unit. The VMAX3 family, which transforms VMAX from enterprise storage to an enterprise data service platform was also announced. EMC claims this fundamentally changes enterprise storage by bringing new levels of cloud-like agility, efficiency and control within the data centre. A major upgrade to EMC Isilon OneFS, new Isilon platforms and new solutions that reinforce the EMC’s enterprise-grade, scale-out Data Lake was also announced. Other new products include the ViPR 2.0 and ViPR SRM 3.5 and the EMC ECS Appliance, which EMC claims redefines storage economics and balances the benefits of the public cloud-cost, simplicity, scalability-with the security and control of the private cloud.