Kicking off its EMC World user conference in Las Vegas today, EMC Corp. unveiled several new products and service, including a variety of offerings designed for data center operators looking to modernize their operations.
In addition to EMC Unity, a new family of all-flash storage arrays, the company also unveiled its Virtustream Storage Cloud platform; the EMC MyService360 cloud-based service dashboard; an expansion of its Copy Data Management portfolio; and the new ViPR Controller 3.0 software for storage automation.
During his appearance at the conference, Dell CEO Michael Dell also revealed that the new company created when his firm completes its acquisition of EMC will be called Dell Technologies. The acquisition, currently valued at around $ 60 billion, requires Dell to compensate EMC shareholders for taking the company private.
IT Industry Faces ‘Massive Transformation’
The offerings announced today are aimed at organizations that want to transform their IT operations with new cloud-based applications and digital services. Such transitions are requiring enterprises to find ways to maintain existing legacy systems effectively while also introducing new, next-generation applications in a cost-efficient manner.
“The IT industry is in a state of massive transformation, resulting in both disruption and great opportunity,” EMC Information Infrastructure CEO David Goulden said in a statement. “Every business leader, across every industry, is facing the dilemma of how to support and grow traditional IT infrastructure while modernizing the data center in order to support the development of new applications and advance their digital agendas. Some are doing all of this simultaneously.”
The new products and services unveiled at EMC World are designed to help customers build modern data centers so they can thrive as digital businesses, he added.
New Offerings Help Users Become More Proactive
EMC’s new Unity family of flash storage systems were created to provide “cloud-like proactive management and monitoring” through an HTML5, task-oriented interface, the company said. Designed for small and medium-size IT departments, EMC Unity offers all-flash configurations starting at under $ 18,000, and hybrid configurations with prices starting at less than $ 10,000.
For larger enterprises, service providers and public sector organizations, EMC is introducing a new cloud storage platform called Virtustream Storage Cloud. A hyper-scale platform, it provides users with efficient tiering, long-term backup retention and cold storage in the cloud, along with single-source support from EMC.
Virtustream Storage Cloud is expected to be generally available starting May 10, with nodes in both the U.S. and Europe. The new offering is EMC’s latest expansion of capabilities for Virtustream, an infrastructure-as-a-service company that was acquired by EMC last year.
EMC also introduced its EMC MyService360 dashboard, which is designed to provide “near-real-time visibility into the status and health of a customer’s EMC data center environment.” Available immediately to users through EMC Online Support, the dashboard helps users simplify operations with more personalized, proactive and predictive information, according to EMC Global Services president Kevin Roche.
Image Credit: EMC Unity all-flash array via EMC.
