EMC transforms EMC VSPEX proven infrastructure, supports 2x more virtual machines at same price

Today, joined by EMC partners and customers, EMC Corporation kicked off a 24-hour, around-the-world live launch announcing new technologies that empower customers with the speed to help lead their IT Transformation. As part of today’s news, EMC announced that the EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure portfolio has been enhanced to leverage the new EMC VNX systems and a range of new data protection capabilities across18  existing and 4 new VSPEX configurations.

The predictable performance of VSPEX has now been further enhanced with the inclusion of the new VNX 5400, 5600 and 5800 Series as part of the solution designed to enable support of up to 1000 virtual machines, 2x more than ever before for VSPEX workloads at twice the value.These new VSPEX configurations powered by VNX further speed transformation to the cloud by driving simplicity and offering more VMs per system, thereby reducing time-intensive planning, sizing  and configuration by administrators.

Fueled by the need to shorten time to value, reduce IT overhead and streamline management, EMC has shipped 3,600 VSPEX and enabled 3,000 customers who have rapidly adopted and deployedthe simple, efficient and flexible reference architecture built on EMC's award-winning storage systems and data protection products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.

New and Enhanced VSPEX Choices

Eighteen enhanced and new VSPEX configurations, representing popular use cases, leverage  the new VNX systems announced today as well as a number of advanced data protection capabilities. These configurations are being updated to also include the latest technology from our ecosystem partners. Among the enhanced configurations are:

VSPEX for Citrix end user computing is being enhanced with Citrix Xen Desktop 7 – Expected to be available in the second half of 2013.

Enhanced data protection capabilities for VSPEX with Avamar 7 and new Data Domain DD2500 DD4200 systems -- Generally available in the second half of 2013.

VSPEX for VMware private cloud is being enhanced with VMware vSphere 5.5 – Available this month upon VMware vSphere 5.5 general availability.

VSPEX for VMware end user computing is being enhanced with VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Available in the second half of 2013.

VSPEX for virtualized Microsoft SQL Server 2012 and VSPEX for virtualized Oracle 11g – Available immediately.

VSPEX for virtualized Microsoft Share point 2013 and VSPEX for virtualized Microsoft Exchange 2013 – Available in the second half of 2013.

Four new configurations across two new solutions expand the benefits of VSPEX within customer environments. They include:

End User Computing -- Three new VSPEX configurations for end user computing with Citrix XenDesktop 7 on Microsoft Hyper-V – Available in the second half of 2013.

Continuous Replication-- VSPEX Proven Infrastructure for continuous replication with Recover Point- Available in the second half of 2013. 

Industry-Leading and Integrated EMC Data Protection Products 

The backup and data protection options for VSPEX are unmatched – and now those options are becoming even more comprehensive. To deliver the latest deduplication technology all VSPEX solutions will be refreshed to leverage the latest Data Domain DD 2500 and DD 4200, Avamar 7, and VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced. To deliver continuous data protection and availability for the applications running in VSPEX environments, EMC also is refreshing the VSPEX with VPLEX solution to leverage data protection capabilities of the new VNX and is announcing a new VSPEX with RecoverPoint solution. Now customers will be able to choose the backup and data protection option that fits their company size along with their data and application availability requirements. 

EMC Executive Quote:

Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President, of Product Operations and Marketing, EMC Corporation: “VSPEX is a simple, efficient and flexible reference architecture solution that has accelerated time to value for over 3000 customers already.  The solutions announced today help ensure that our customers can continue to easily and quickly deploy the latest best-of-breed cloud technology to accelerate their journey to the cloud.”