EMC Corporation has announced new updates to the EMC® VMAX3™ platform, the industry’s leading data service platform, fundamentally changing what has been possible with enterprise storage by delivering new levels of automation, modernization and consolidation to customers. EMC is extending enterprise data services to multiple platforms with the launch of FAST.X™, automating storage tiering across the data center.
According to Mark Peters, practice manager and senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group “Tiering data across multiple storage platforms is a compelling capability both operationally and financially, and should enhance the way IT looks at tiered storage. Organizations today are constantly looking for new ways to improve business operations and drive efficiency everywhere – IT included. By automating application data service level objectives across platforms, IT organizations can spend more time focusing on their business and less time on tiering their data.”
EMC is announcing an expanded set of VMAX3 data services and capabilities that further automate, consolidate and protect mission-critical IT operations.
Key highlights include, VMAX3 Introduces FAST.X – Next Wave of Storage Tiering
VMAX3 offers automated tiering beyond and across the data center with FAST.X, extending enterprise data services to multiple platforms and extending service level objectives from VMAX3 to other storage devices.
ViPR Controller and VMAX3 Integration
VMAX3 integration with EMC® ViPR® Controller software allows organizations to automate delivery of differentiated classes of storage services through the ViPR Controller self-service catalog.
EMC is showing a proof of concept of ViPR Controller running in a VMAX3 guest container for simple SDDC deployment.
Automated Storage Tiering to XtremIO
VMAX3 integration with EMC®XtremIO™ flash storage allows customers to benefit from the data reduction of XtremIO while leveraging VMAX3’s reliability and simplicity.
EMC is also previewing an option to purchase a VMAX3 platform with integrated XtremIO X-Brick™ building blocks for easier deployment and management of low latency, compressed data tiers.
Automated Storage Tiering to the Cloud
VMAX3 integration with EMC®CloudArray® cloud-integrated storage moves less active workloads to more cost-efficient cloud storage resulting in up to 40% lower storage costs and highly scalable back-end capacity.
VMAX3 Active-Active Replication
Later this year, VMAX3 will deliver active-active high availability for non-stop data access and resource balancing with newly enhanced SRDF®/Metro™ functionality.
FAST.X for VMAX3 with support for XtremIO is planned for release this quarter. SRDF/Metro and FAST.X support for CloudArray and third-party storage is planned for release later this year.
Speaking on the development, Guy Churchward, president, Core Technologies, EMC Corporation said, “VMAX3 is a truly transformational solution that can change the way that businesses build their data centers. Separating software data services from the underlyinghardware allows organizations to take advantage of fundamentally different ways of delivering enterprise storage architectures. As the industry’s first enterprise data service platform, VMAX3 delivers new levels of automation and consolidation while redefining what is possible within, and beyond the data center.”