EMC announces new Hybrid Cloud platform enhancements

EMC announced general availability for EMC® Enterprise Hybrid Cloud v4.0, as well as planned enhancements for both Enterprise Hybrid Cloud and EMC Native Hybrid Cloud, designed to help customers advance their journey for both traditional and cloud-native applications. 

The announcement comes soon after a research undertaken by EMC and VMware to assess the current state of IT infrastructure that found 80% of companies aim to run IT as a customer focused business.

Based on interviews with 660 EMC and VMware enterprise customers across 18 industries, the report indicated that respondents want IT organizations to be cost-competitive with external service providers and seek cost efficiencies by virtualizing, standardizing, and developing hybrid cloud architectures. Most organizations indicated they want to have a hybrid cloud architecture for their production applications within the next 18-24 months, with 90% reporting they are in the evaluation or proof-of-concept stage.

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud v4.0 extends IT’s ability to update legacy application infrastructure to meet the demands of a digital world.  New capabilities in Enterprise Hybrid Cloud v4.0 include:

• Multi-Site Support: enables EMC customers with physically distributed data centers to centrally manage their multi-site cloud using a self-service catalog.
• Enhanced Data Protection options now span multiple sites and enable recovery to any point-in-time from outages, corruption or disasters for individual or groups of Virtual Machines via the self-service catalog.
• Anytime VM Encryption: The ability to add or remove encryption for VMs via the self-service catalog at any time in the lifecycle of a VM.

Additional enhancements to Enterprise Hybrid Cloud are targeted for later this year. These enhancements are planned to include new workflows that automate application to infrastructure provisioning to reduce the time and complexity of delivering new services.

Native Hybrid Cloud

Designed to start small and quickly scale as demand for new applications grow, the platform is planned to provide organizations with a flexible, cost effective and optimized hybrid cloud platform for cloud native application development. Benefits include:

• Customers can now quickly deploy a turnkey modern application development platform into their environment while leveraging their existing and proven investments in VMware infrastructure
• Delivers centralized infrastructure resource management, provisioning and performance evaluation
• Delivers the benefits of EMC converged infrastructure: increased agility, simplified operations and lower risk 

General availability of Native Hybrid Cloud on VCE VxRail Appliances 200 and 200F are planned for the end of the third quarter of 2016. 

Loretta Brown, Vice president, Federation, VMware: “Enterprise Hybrid Cloud and Native Hybrid Cloud are built on a foundation of proven VMware technologies.  With the vRealize Cloud Management platform, Enterprise Hybrid Cloud delivers customers the cloud consumption experience and agility they need to make their transformational cloud journey.  These platforms accelerate IT’s ability to deliver a software-defined environment that is ready to support the needs of both traditional and cloud-native applications.” 

Peter Cutts, Vice President, Solutions, EMC Corporation: “EMC’s Enterprise Hybrid Cloud and Native Hybrid Cloud are the fastest, surest path to the cloud based on the unrivaled level of collaboration between EMC and VMware. They enable our customers to shift their focus from building infrastructure to delivering innovative new services that differentiate their business. Today’s announcements emphasize our commitment to developing hybrid cloud platforms that ignite out customers’ IT transformations and simplify and accelerate their path to becoming digital-driven businesses.”