VCE Vblock Systems Include All-Flash Models

VCE Company LLC, in converged infrastructure systems, unveiled updated Vblock systems, integrated solutions and technology extensions to drive greater IT flexibility, agility and simplicity for enterprises and service providers globally.

These systems and solutions broaden the VCE portfolio of converged infrastructures that transform customer data centers for private and hybrid clouds.

Customers will be able to order new Vblock Systems, including the new all-flash-based Vblock System 540 for mixed high-performance workloads, as well as factory-built and fully supported VCE Integrated Solutions and technology extensions that bring the VCE Experience to a range of converged infrastructure offerings. The VCE Experience includes pre-integrated, pre-tested and pre-validated VCE converged infrastructure solutions that are delivered and supported by VCE as a single product, with component-level updates, ongoing lifecycle assurance and unified support across all components.

Converged infrastructure is quickly becoming recognized as the fastest route to realizing business value from next-generation cloud technologies. Industry analysts expect the integrated infrastructure category for integrated systems to grow at 43.2% CAGR to $11.2 billion in 2017, an increase from $3.6 billion in 2013. Industry analysts have named VCE the market share leader in integrated infrastructure systems, with the highest revenue of any other converged infrastructure vendor.

“The IT industry continues to shift toward hybrid cloud computing models, which requires organizations to re-evaluate their approach for how to deliver IT services,” said Todd Pavone, EVP, product strategy and development, VCE. “Our new Vblock Systems, integrated solutions and technology extensions are a significant step forward in helping VCE customers prepare for the hybrid world, providing new options that help them simplify how they deploy and manage infrastructure while enabling innovation and operational efficiencies that can drive value back into their businesses.”

New Vblock Systems
VCE has extended the its converged infrastructure portfolio with technologies and all-flash converged infrastructure system – all designed to help customers build the foundation for private and hybrid clouds:

• The Vblock System 740 is an intelligent converged infrastructure, with performance, capacity and availability for mission-critical applications. The Vblock System 740, powered by next-generation Cisco Unified Computing, Cisco Nexus ACI-Ready networking and EMC VMAX 3 storage, is VCE’s converged infrastructure that introduces several key new capabilities including 3X storage performance, 50% lower TCO and simple provisioning based on service level objectives.
• The Vblock System 540 is an all-flash-based converged infrastructure system for consolidating mixed workloads like private clouds, databases and related business applications. The Vblock System 540 is powered by EMC’s XtremIO all-flash arrays and next-generation Cisco Unified Computing, Cisco Nexus ACI-Ready networking. It delivers consolidation and agility benefits like instant, space-efficient, performance copy services for applications like SAP with many instances across multiple application landscapes.
• The Vblock System 240 is a converged infrastructure system for medium-sized businesses and distributed remote offices. Based on EMC’s entry-level VNX5200, Vblock System 240 is engineered with a streamlined form factor and designed for customers who desire a minimal-scale, high-performance infrastructure solution.

VCE Integrated Solutions for Cloud Management
VCE Integrated Solutions for Cloud Management are new offerings that provide pre-integrated, pre-tested and pre-validated software on Vblock Systems to simplify deployment and management of cloud computing.

Integrated with Vblock Systems converged infrastructure and VCE Vision Intelligent Operations software, these out-of-the-box cloud foundation solutions support rapid, cost-effective implementation of private or hybrid cloud infrastructure with,low risk:

• The VCE Integrated Solution for Cloud Management with Cisco provides pre-integrated, pre-tested and pre-validated software for IaaS and Vblock virtual resource provisioning based on UCS Director. This solution simplifies the automation and provisioning of virtual data centers running on Vblock Systems with efficient allocation of compute, network and storage resources, enabling customers to focus on the development and delivery of innovative cloud services rather than manual processes and routine maintenance.
• The VCE Integrated Solution for Cloud Management with VMware provides pre-integrated, pre-tested and pre-validated software from the VMware vRealize Suite management platform. This solution enables customers to automate the provisioning and orchestration of private and hybrid cloud environments to reduce time-consuming manual processes. The vRealize Suite also features intelligent operations, capacity, performance, configuration and log management, to provide infrastructure and application service quality, as well as business management with automated service costing and analytics.

VCE Technology Extensions
VCE technology extensions are pre-integrated, pre-tested and pre-validated to enable additional flexibility and scalability for new and existing Vblock Systems:

• The VCE technology extension for Isilon storage integrates powerful scale-out storage with a Vblock System to cost-effectively consolidate and manage enterprise data and applications. Vblock Systems can now be expanded to incorporate large-scale user data for VDI, efficient enterprise data lakes for big data and Hadoop data analytics, and scale-out NAS. Additionally, by enabling multi-use, multi-protocol and multi-tenant capabilities, the VCE technology extension for Isilon storage accelerates adoption of emerging applications such as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS).
• The VCE technology extension for UCS compute utilizes next-generation Cisco Unified Computing technology to power compute-intensive applications, such as specialized graphics processing, performing seismic modeling, handling digital media transcoding and complying with HIPAA privacy and security regulations. Seamless integration with Vblock System converged infrastructure enables compute resources to be added incrementally and provisioned, monitored and managed.

“VCE disrupted the IT infrastructure market, transitioning it from individual discreetly managed components to converged Vblock Systems that are engineered, sold and supported as a single system. The new Vblock System 540 enhances VCE’s lineup with flash storage in a multi-workload system to drive benefits such as application acceleration, agility, low latency, high performance while ensuring the pre-integrated experience customers expect from Vblock Systems,” said Mark Bowker, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group.

“IT has become a key enabler for the healthcare industry. With the Vblock System as our private cloud, we’ve been able to boost application performance and availability, lower our TCO, as well as effectively serve our users’ demands and meet government regulations for healthcare programs. VCE’s detailed integration and expertise in converged infrastructure transformed our data center, and we believe the new VCE solutions can provide the same evolution for customers as they head into the next era of IT,” said Marivi Stuchinsky, VP, enterprise infrastructure services, Molina Healthcare, Inc.

“Evolution1 delivers innovative healthcare software and payment solutions to millions of consumers in the US. We chose to deploy the Vblock System 540 to help simplify the infrastructure of our SaaS platforms while dramatically increasing scalability and performance. Due to the highly transactional nature of our SaaS platforms and stringent uptime requirements, it made perfect sense to move to an ‘all-flash’ architecture to power our I/O intense workloads,” said Jesse Braasch, VP, infrastructure and operations, Evolution1 Partner Endorsements.

“As the Internet of Everything continues to gain momentum, customers are looking for complete solutions to unlock the potential of the cloud. By combining VCE Vblock Systems and VCE Integrated Solution for cloud Management built on Cisco’s UCS Integrated Infrastructure including Nexus 9000 technologies, customers can quickly implement cloud strategies. We continue to collaborate closely with VCE to build integrated infrastructure solutions and enable customers to easily consume private and hybrid cloud capabilities,” said Jim McHugh, VP, UCS marketing, Cisco Systems, Inc.

“First generation converged infrastructure systems from VCE have proven their value in many global enterprises with EMC storage platforms underpinning their successful deployment. Today VCE has upped the ante again by introducing their newest Vblocks featuring EMC’s state of the art VMAX3 hybrid arrays for hyper-scale mixed workload environments along with the first-ever all-flash Vblock System 540 featuring EMC’s market-leading EMC XtremIO flash storage systems for consolidating high-performance workloads. VCE customers can further extend the versatility of their Vblock Systems to efficiently manage and support large VDI deployments or to build out enterprise data lakes for big data and Hadoop data analytics through newly integrated capabilities with EMC Isilon scale-out NAS solutions,” said Subbu Iyer, SVP, global product marketing, EMC.

“VMware’s longstanding partnership with VCE has empowered our customers to realize greater agility and flexibility in their IT infrastructure. With the new VCE Integrated Solution for cloud Management with VMware, we are continuing to provide organizations with the ability to quickly automate, provision and orchestrate their private and hybrid cloud environments,” said Raghu Raghuram, EVP, software-defined data center division, VMware, Inc.

VCE Vblock Systems 740, 540 and 240 are orderable.

Vblock Integrated Solutions for Cloud Management with Cisco and VMware will be orderable within 90 days.

VCE technology extensions for EMC Isilon storage and Cisco UCS Computing will be orderable within 90 days.

VCE products and solutions are available globally from VCE and its network of solution provider partners.