The VMAX3 DVM enables the dynamic allocation of processing power for improved performance and to ensure predictable service levels at scale. DVM means that processing power can be redirected from any process in the VMAX stack, and assigned where it is needed most.
VMAX gets a capacity boost too, there are now options to support anything from a handful of virtual machines(VM), up to 40,000 VMs. Further emphasising the reliability and endurance of the infrastructure, VMAX family boasts 99.9999% availability, with seven nines achievable with VPLEX.
“We believe the VMAX3 will be a big consolidator of data centre workloads,” said Jeremy Burton, president, Products and Marketing, EMC.
As ever on the acquisition trail, EMC also announced new family member TwinStrata. New embedded cloud access capabilities for the VMAX family will be delivered through TwinStrata advanced cloud tiering technology that enables users to move infrequently accessed data to the public cloud for lower TCO. TwinStrata already supports many of prominent public cloud providers, and will add support for other market leaders as well, says EMC.
By way of describing updates to its Isilon software, EMC described the phenomenon of the data lake, which Goulden assured, is a term the industry will be suing a lot more in the future.
Isilon Data Lake is analytic-ready, with its new analytics new Hadoop capabilities
Data lakes are highly scalable repositories for storing data from a wide variety of sources, generated by traditional and next-generation workloads, says EMC, and consumed through a range of mechanisms without needing to be managed by separate, multiple silos of storage. Data lakes are now possible that are an order of magnitude more scalable than existing approaches for consolidation into a single file system, single volume data lake. With this in mind, the Isilon Data Lake is analytic-ready, said EMC, with its new analytics new Hadoop capabilities.
The updates to the Isilon storage line deliver the industry’s first enterprise-grade, scale-out data lake, said EMC, enabling next-generation workloads such as Hadoop analytics, cloud and mobile. The developments in Isilon will help to significantly advance organisations’ ability to ingest, store, protect and manage massive amounts of unstructured data. By leveraging HDFS for the Data Lake, EMC says it is enabling users to bring Hadoop to their Big Data rather than vice versa, avoiding the time and costs involved with moving petabytes of data.
The new Isilon S210 and Isilon X410 platforms have had performance doubled, while also getting new SmartFlash flash-cache capabilities and support for next-generation workload protocols.
Under the heading of software defined, Burton said EMC had taken a different approach that is down to the unique arch of ViPR.
ViPR is EMC’s software defined set of technologies to manage and pool commodity storage hardware in the DC. The new version 2.0 ViPR 2.0 and ViPR SRM 3.5 helps users to build a modern storage infrastructure on commodity platforms, while also making it easy to manage any storage infrastructure, from a cluster of two arrays to a truly hyperscale, multi-Petabyte environment, said EMC.
The new EMC ECS Appliance, described as a breakthrough hyperscale storage infrastructure is powered by ViPR 2.0, and “redefines storage economics and balances the benefits of the public cloud—cost, simplicity, scalability—with the security and control of the private cloud”.
EMC said that it had shipped the first ECS Appliance, consisting of a single system totalling 3 Petabytes, to The Vatican Library in support of its efforts to digitise and make available its library of old, rare and obscure texts.
Combined, the new announcements bring a high performance, scalable, reliable set of easily integrated solutions together which Goulden argues are “a great foundation for organisations building their hybrid clouds”.
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