EMC Accelerates Customers’ Journey to the Cloud at VMworld 2011
EMC Accelerates Customers’ Journey to the Cloud at VMworld 2011
EMC to Provide Practical Guidance, Demonstrations and Hands-On Lab
Showcasing the Unique Benefits of EMC With VMware Virtualization and
Cloud Infrastructure
HOPKINTON, Mass. – August 24, 2011 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC),
the number one choice of customers for information infrastructure
(http://canada.emc.com/solutions/business-need/virtualizing-information-infrastructure/index.htm)
in VMware virtual and cloud
(http://canada.emc.com/solutions/business-need/virtualizing-information-infrastructure/index.htm)
environments according to a recent Wikibon survey
(http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/VMware_Storage_Integration_Journey_Checkpoint),will
again provide customers with a unique opportunity to gain practical
guidance from vExperts and their peers, view real-time demonstrations
and develop skills in a hands-on lab at the VMworld 2011 conference in
The Venetian, Las Vegas (Aug. 29 – Sept. 1). At the show EMC will
highlight its recently announced
(http://canada.emc.com/about/news/press/2011/20110712-01.htm) broad
technology support and the industry’s most comprehensive integration
with VMware vSphere® 5 and cloud infrastructure suite. The combination
of EMC’s industry-leading products, solutions and services with VMware
virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies accelerates the
customer journey to the cloud – lowering IT costs and improving
business agility.
Key opportunities to listen, learn and gain hands-on experience:
* Super Session (Tuesday, August 30 at 10:00 AM PT): Pat Gelsinger
(http://canada.emc.com/about/emc-at-glance/exec-team/gelsinger.htm),
President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure
Products will deliver a Super Session presentation and ‘Live’
demonstrations highlighting EMC’s shared vision with VMware and
EMC’s latest technology designed to accelerate the journey to the
cloud. The Super Session will conclude with a live episode of
‘Chad’s World’ featuring EMC’s Chad Sakac, Vice President
of the VMware Alliance.
* EMC Booth (#1101): At the EMC booth, attendees will have the
opportunity to discuss best practices, see demonstrations of technology
integrations between EMC and VMware solutions as well as meet with EMC
executives and subject matter experts to discuss what’s on their
minds. Featured in the booth will be demonstrations of EMC storage,
backup and recovery, virtual desktop infrastructure, security, solutions
as well as services to virtualize mission critical applications,
analytics and action, and information management features with VMware
technologies. In addition every hour will feature a presentation by EMC
and VMware’s joint customers and subject matter experts.
* EMC Interactive Demo Area (Booth #1001): For customers seeking
practical experience for accelerating their journey to the cloud, EMC
for the second year has a one-of-a-kind hands-on lab to showcase
combined EMC and VMware technologies. Attendees can interact with the
latest EMC cloud technologies such as EMC® Atmos
(http://canada.emc.com/storage/atmos/atmos.htm)® and learn how EMC’s
portfolio of products including EMC Symmetrix® VMAX
(http://canada.emc.com/products/storage/symmetrix/symmetrix.htm)™, EMC
VNX (http://canada.emc.com/products/family/vnx-family.htm)® family and
EMC Isilon (http://www.isilon.com/)® storage platforms integrate with
VMware to provide the best visibility and management of the cloud, and
understand how to secure, backup and protect their EMC and VMware
virtualized and cloud environments with vLabs featuring EMC Avamar
(http://canada.emc.com/products/family2/avamar-family.htm)®, RSA
(http://www.rsa.com/)® and EMC VPLEX
(http://canada.emc.com/storage/vplex/vplex.htm)®.
* VCE (booth #1121): VCE (http://www.vce.com/), the Virtual Computing
Environment Company, a converged infrastructure product and solutions
company forme
d by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel,
will showcase the capabilities of its Vblock™ Infrastructure Platforms.
Available through a comprehensive ecosystem of partners, Vblock
Platforms deliver a complete IT infrastructure that integrates
best-of-breed virtualization, networking, compute, storage, security,
and management technologies. Todd Pavone, Executive Vice President,
Product Development will lead a Super Session to bring to life the
efficiencies that Vblock platforms, solutions and services offer as
customers move along their journey to the cloud.
* 7 Sessions: EMC executives and technical speakers joined by VMware
and customers will address attendees at seven sessions and panel
discussions. EMC customers will share their real experiences and provide
practical guidance on how EMC and VMware accelerate their journey to the
cloud.
* Second Annual “EMC Journey to the Cloud” awards: Five customers
and partners will be honoured as the winners of the “EMC Journey to
the Cloud” awards based on award submissions and judged by a panel of
experts to highlight excellence in innovation, value and performance.
* EMC Video Cube: Throughout the event, the EMC Video Cube will keep
attendees visiting the EMC booth informed with multiple displays and
broadcast interviews and videos from customers, EMC executives and
partners as well as industry analysts.
Supporting Quotes:
“Since our data centre is over 98 per cent virtualized including
Microsoft Exchange, we chose an EMC solution because of its broad and
deep integration with VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure
solutions and because after we compared it against the competition, it
was also the most cost-effective and reliable solution available. With
features like EMC PowerPath/VE we’ve realized the high-availability
and performance we wanted for our mission-critical applications.
Additionally, with all of the EMC plug-ins for VMware vCenter including
the one for PowerPath/VE, our VMware administrators are able to more
efficiently manage the VMware vSphere cluster, virtual machines, and
storage all from a single management console which is critical to gain
business agility.”
Christopher Apostolof, Storage and Virtualization Engineer,
Cosmopolitan Hotel Las Vegas
“EMC’s pervasive integration with VMware vSphere® 5 and cloud
infrastructure suite accelerates customers’ journey to the cloud and
has made it the number one choice of customers for their VMware
environment. Next week, we’ll once again provide thousands of
attendees with the opportunity to learn from the experiences of their
peers, get hands-on instruction and advice from technical experts and
also recognize those exceptional customers and partners who are driving
innovation and success in virtualization.”
Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer,
EMC
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted
and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
www.EMC.com.
EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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