EMC VFCache Signifies a New Era for Enterprise Flash Technology + EMC FAST Technology Shipped with Over One Exabyte of EMC Storage
1) EMC VFCache Signifies a New Era for Enterprise Flash Technology –
Makes Leap from Storage to Server
2) EMC FAST Technology Shipped with Over One Exabyte of EMC Storage
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
EMC VFCache Signifies a New Era for Enterprise Flash Technology –
Makes Leap from Storage to Server
Together, EMC VFCache and EMC Storage Bring PCIe Flash Benefits to
Mainstream Mission Critical Applications – Delivers Lightning-Fast
Performance, Intelligence and Enterprise-Class Protection
News Summary:
* EMC delivers EMC VFCache
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vfcache/vfcache.htm)™, formerly known as
“Project Lightning,” a new hardware and software solution
leveraging PCIe Flash technology and intelligent caching software that
dramatically increases throughput and reduces latency.
* The powerful combination of EMC Flash-enabled enterprise storage
arrays with VFCache extends the benefits of PCIe Flash technology from
edge case social media and Internet to mainstream applications. Testing
in mission-critical database environments (such as Microsoft SQL Server
and Oarcle) showed up to 3X throughput improvement and 60 per cent
reduction in latency.
* VFCache extends a new “high performance” tier of storage into the
server, integrating with and leveraging the benefits of intelligent EMC
FAST (http://www.emc.com/about/glossary/fast.htm)(Fully Automated
Storage Tiering) technology.
* New VFCache extends the protection benefits of EMC’s market-leading
Symmetrix VMAX (http://www.emc.com/storage/symmetrix/vmax.htm)™,
Symmetrix VMAXe (http://www.emc.com/storage/symmetrix/vmaxe.htm)™, EMC
VNX (http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnx-series.htm)® and EMC VNXe
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnxe-series.htm)® Flash-enabled storage
arrays into the server, delivering advanced data services including high
availability, integrity, reliability and disaster recovery.
* EMC is previewing “Project Thunder,” a purpose-built,
low-latency, server-networked Flash-based appliance that is scalable,
serviceable, and shareable. Designed for real-world applications,
“Project Thunder” will deliver I/Os measured in millions and
timed in microseconds.
Full Story:
HOPKINTON, MA – February 6, 2012 – EMC Corporation
(http://www.emc.com/) (NYSE:EMC) today introduced EMC VFCache™, a new
server Flash caching solution. Together, VFCache and EMC Flash-enabled
storage systems dramatically improve application performance by
leveraging intelligent software and PCIe Flash technology – testing
resulted in up-to 3X increased throughput while reducing latency by 60
per cent. With today’s announcement, EMC is extending Flash technology
to the server and evolving the benefits of PCIe Flash technology from
edge case social media and internet to mainstream mission critical
applications such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. Now databases (CRP,
ERM), OLTP, email, Web, and reporting – any read-intensive workloads
with cacheable working sets – can benefit from the powerful
performance benefits of PCIe Flash.
VFCache combined with VMAX
(http://www.emc.com/storage/symmetrix/vmax.htm), VMAXe
(http://www.emc.com/storage/symmetrix/vmaxe.htm), VNX
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnx-series.htm) and VNXe
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnxe-series.htm) storage delivers
turbocharged performance with the protection (high availability, data
integrity, reliability, and disaster recovery) for which EMC storage is
trusted around the world. While VFCache is the next evolutionary step of
EMC’s Flash strategy – requiring no disruption to customers’
existing storage architectures – it delivers revolutionary benefits.
VFCache is the latest in a line of enterprise Flash innovation firsts,
beginning in 2008 when EMC was the first to integrate Flash drives into
an enterprise storage array. Putting Flash drives into th
e storage array
achieved an order of magnitude better performance – 300X faster data
access than 15K HDD. Now, placing Flash technology in the server on a
PCIe card can accelerate performance up to another order of magnitude
– 4,000X faster data access than 15K HDD.
Coming in the next year, EMC will add deduplication technology to
VFCache, enabling customers to achieve even more efficiency from Flash
technology. Additional Flash capacity and form factors will also be
supported. VFCache will also more deeply integrate with EMC storage
management technologies, and additional integration with FAST
architecture. EMC’s vision for VFCache is delivering the industry’s
most comprehensive, efficient and intelligent I/O path from the
application to the data store. The result will be a networked
infrastructure that is dynamically optimized for performance,
intelligence, and protection for both physical and virtual environments.
EMC VFCache Technology Benefits
* Turbocharged Performance: VFCache is the fastest PCIe server
Flash-caching solution available today. VFCache resides in the server,
eliminating the need for hot data to travel through the network to the
storage array – boosting throughput performance in some cases up to 3X
and reducing latency by 60 per cent. EMC is offering the industry’s
best architecture – the PCIe Flash cards deliver better throughput and
response, while using four times less CPU and memory resources than
competing solutions.
* Automated Intelligence: VFCache is enabling a new tier of high
performance storage in the server. VFCache extends the EMC FAST
(http://www.emc.com/about/glossary/fast.htm) architecture to facilitate
an intelligent end-to-end data tiering and caching strategy from the
storage to the server. EMC’s focus on enabling customers to exploit
the cost and performance benefits of FAST technology has catapulted
EMC’s leadership in enterprise Flash (see related announcement
(http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120206-02.htm)).
* Enterprise-Class Protection: VFCache enables customers to benefit
from total protection with “write-through caching” to the storage
array. When data is written to VMAX, VMAXe, VNX or VNXe storage,
customers have the confidence of knowing data is protected by the
industry’s highest availability storage with data integrity, data
reliability and disaster recovery. The information remains shareable and
scalable – without any stranded storage.
EMC also plans an early customer access program for “Project
Thunder” in the second quarter of 2012. “Project Thunder,”
optimized for high-frequency, low-latency read/write workloads, will
build upon the advanced PCIe technology delivered in VFCache to leverage
the power of Flash through a dedicated server-networked, Flash-based
appliance.
Customer Quotes
Frank W. Smith, Senior IT Infrastructure Manager, PPG Industries
“PPG Industries (http://www.ppg.com/en/Pages/home.aspx) manufactures
coatings and specialty products for the construction, consumer products,
industrial and transportation markets. Putting Flash in the server was
an easy decision for us. We know that the closer data on Flash is to an
application, the better it will perform. However, we need more than just
crazy fast I/O. Our data is the lifeblood of our operations, so we
require a solution we can count on to protect our mission-critical data
while adding performance. That is why we chose EMC VFCache for our
Oracle environment, which complements our Symmetrix VMAX storage running
FAST VP. With EMC, we get performance with protection – crazy fast I/O
coupled with EMC’s trusted networked storage. There is no other
solution on the market today that comes close to offering VFCache’s
comprehensive performance, intelligence, and protection.”
Craig VanHuss, IS Manager, Enterprise Systems, Crutchfield Corp
“Crutchfield Corporation is a leading catalogue and Internet retailer
of consumer electronics products. We've been impressed with the
performance and efficiency benefits of Flash drives and FAST Suite in
our Microsoft SQL Server database environment, responsible for hosting
www.crutchfield.com. After being introduced to EMC VFCache, we started
thinking about the performance benefits of having data on Flash drives
that are even closer to our SQL Server application – the closer to the
application, the better it will perform. The potential performance
benefits got us really excited. Deploying VFCache together with our
Flash-enabled VNX running SQL would enable Crutchfield to protect our
mission critical data while adding insanely fast performance.”
Brian Carpenter, Vice President of Information Technology, Heritage
Auctions
“Heritage Auctions (HA.com) is the largest collectibles auctioneer,
and third-largest auction house in the world. All of our data resides on
EMC storage, which is the backbone of our mission-critical Microsoft SQL
Server environment. Using Symmetrix VMAXe with FAST VP enables us to
leverage Flash drives to increase performance for faster response time
to bidders. VFCache means we can extend the intelligence of FAST into
the server – providing unparalleled response to our bidders.”
Industry Analyst Quote
Dave Vellante, Chief Analyst, Wikibon.org
“EMC landed a haymaker in 2008 when it introduced Flash into
Symmetrix VMAX arrays and set the precedent for maximizing Flash
technology in storage arrays. In 2012 we're seeing the extension of the
storage hierarchy where flash is being managed from the server all the
way through to the spinning disk array. An important development is
software that intelligently places data at the most appropriate location
in this emerging storage hierarchy. Combined with FAST, EMC VFCache is a
leading example of this trend coming to market as a solution.”
EMC Executive Quote
Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Office, EMC Information
Infrastructure Products
“EMC identified very early on that Flash technology would change the
industry forever, and became the first to bring Flash to enterprise
storage. With today’s announcement, EMC also becomes the first to
implement PCIe Flash in a way that ensures mission critical applications
reach new levels of performance, at the right cost, and with the level
of protection and intelligence that customers demand.”
Technology Partner Quotes
Jason Nolet, Vice President, Data Center and Enterprise Networking,
Brocade
“EMC and Brocade
(http://www.brocade.com/partnerships/oems/emc/overview.page) have a
long-standing relationship in the delivery of high-performance, highly
resilient data centre solutions. The deployment of EMC VFCache and FAST
storage tiering technology will better enable customers to gain the
business efficiencies of Flash with the confidence that their data is
fully protected throughout its information lifecycle. Brocade
fabric-based networks, which feature industry-leading performance and
built-in resiliency, are a natural connectivity choice for EMC’s new
offering.”
Satinder Sethi, Vice President, Data Center Solutions, Server Access
and Virtualization Technology Group, Cisco
“EMC VFCache extends the benefits of Flash storage into the computing
system to dramatically improve application performance. VFCache
complements the high density of the Cisco UCS platform to deliver higher
performance computing needed in a virtualized data centre environment
and to support big data and business analytics applications.”
Eugene Saburi, General Manager, SQL Server Product Marketing, Microsoft
Corporation
“SQL Server customers who are looking to increase caching and storage
performance can now take advantage of recent innovations in enterprise
Flash technology. By extending PCIe Flash caching technology to the
server with VFCache – and putting data even closer the application –
EMC is aiming to supercharge performance. EMC VFCache with SQL Server
has the potential to boost caching and storage performance, while
maintaining enterprise-clas
s data protection.”
Raghu Raghuram, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Cloud
Infrastructure and Management, VMware
“Our customers are focused on simplifying management for the cloud.
With VFCache EMC is extending its expertise in information management
and exploiting the benefits of Flash directly to the server – whether
in a physical or virtual environment. VFCache coupled with VMware cloud
infrastructure and EMC storage can deliver heightened levels of
performance with data protection, easing our customers' journey to
transform their IT infrastructures.”
Channel Partner Quotes
Jamie Shepard, Executive Vice President, Technology Solutions,
International Computerware, Inc.
“VFCache is a brilliant addition to EMC's already comprehensive,
Flash-optimized portfolio. VFCache will deliver a performance boost
unmatched in the industry today – and with the protection our
customers have come to expect from EMC storage. This new solution will
change application performance as we know it today.”
Keith Norbie, Vice President, Nexus
“VFCache allows Nexus (http://keithnorbie.wordpress.com/) to provide
our clients with a unique performance AND protection blend – while
leveraging the benefits of EMC's Flash-optimized storage arrays. What
our clients will gain in performance and protection is complemented with
the intelligence of EMC’s unique automated storage tiering technology
through EMC FAST. VFCache will help us satisfy the performance boost
requirements, protection needs and automated intelligence for our
customers with mission-critical, hybrid cloud environments.”
Additional Resources
* Read about VFCache
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vfcache/vfcache.htm#!)
* Read the VFCache data sheet
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/data-sheet/h9581-vfcache-ds.pdf)
* Read the Demartek VFCache evaluation paper
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/demartek-vfcache-evaluation-ar.pdf)
* Read the EMC paper
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h10502-vfcache-intro-wp.pdf)
on VFCache
* Read about VFCache accelerating Oracle with VNX
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h10501-vfcache-accelerates-oracle-vnx-wp.pdf)
and VMAX/VMAXe
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h9538-vfcache-oracle-vmax-wp.pdf)
* Read about VFCache accelerating virtualized Oracle with VMAX/VMAXe
and VMware vSphere
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h9537-vfcache-virtualized-oracle-vmax-wp.pdf)
* Read about VFCache accelerating Microsoft SQL Server with VNX
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h9539-vfcache-accelerates-microsoft-sql-server-vnx-wp.pdf)
* Connect with EMC via Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/emccorp),
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/emccorp), YouTube
(http://www.youtube.com/user/EMCCorp), andLinkedIn
(http://www.linkedin.com/company/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.
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from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.
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EMC FAST Technology Shipped with Over One Exabyte of EMC Storage
News Summary:
* Customers have purchased 1.3 Exabytes of EMC storage enabled by the
power of EMC® FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering
(http://www.emc.com/about/glossary/fast.htm)) technology since its
introduction in January 20101.
* Rapid adoption of EMC FAST technology, one of EMC’s fastest-growing
storage software products, demonstrates its unique ability to achieve
higher levels of performance, cost efficiency and storage utilization in
virtual data centres
(http://www.emc.com/services/it-services/product-category/virtual-data-center-services.htm)
by exploiting the benefits of Flash drives and a tiered architecture.
* In 2011, EMC shipped over 24 PBs of Flash drive capacity – more
than any other storage vendor in the market today.
* In related news
(http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2012/20120206-01.htm), EMC
announced the availability of EMC VFCache™, formally known as “Project
Lightning,” which is a new hardware and software solution leveraging
PCIe Flash technology and intelligent caching software that reduces
latency and increases throughput – dramatically improving application
performance.
Full Story:
HOPKINTON, MA – February 6, 2012 – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today
announced that the company’s industry-leading EMC® FAST technology,
which was first introduced to the market in January 2010, has already
shipped with 1.3 Exabytes of information on EMC storage solutions and
represents one of EMC’s fastest-growing storage software products.
This milestone clearly establishes EMC’s leadership as a pioneer in
Flash technology and automated tiering for enterprise storage.
Delivering unmatched levels of performance, cost efficiency, and storage
utilization, EMC’s FAST software combined with Flash technology is
delivering customers incredible economic savings and value. The
combination of FAST software and Flash has resulted in the following
achievements:
* In 2011, EMC shipped over 24 PBs of Flash drive capacity
* EMC has seen 8X growth in Flash capacity shipped to customers in 2011
compared to 2009
As enterprise customers continue their journey to gain real-time
intelligence out of larger and larger data sets, technologies such as
EMC FAST enable customers to automatically maximize performance in
transactional and analytical “Big Data” environments for faster
response and query times and shorter batch windows.
In related news, EMC today unveiled EMC VFCache™, formerly known as
“Project Lightning,” enabling a new tier of high performance
storage in the server. Together, VFCache and EMC Flash-enabled storage
systems dramatically improve application performance by leveraging
intelligent software and PCIe Flash technology.
Cost and Efficiency Benefits
EMC FAST technology moves high-performance – or “hot” – data to
enterprise Flash drives to improve application and storage system
performance, and moves less-active data to SAS/FC and NL-SAS/ SATA
storage tiers to reduce costs. In addition to performance and cost
benefits, FAST delivers heightened levels of efficiency – including
lowering power and cooling expenses, while dramatically improving –
and lowering – operating expenses. The below examples are based on 1.3
Exabytes of information being managed by FAST compared to single tier or
monolithic systems2.
* Reduced data centre footprint by 64 football fields: With FAST,
customers have leveraged high-performance Flash drives combined with
fewer, higher-capacity drives to support more performance in smaller
systems – reducing footprint requirements by more-than 19,200 linear
feet, or the equivalent of the length of 64 football fields.
* Saved enough power to operate 15.2 million iPads a year:
Consolidating more applications into a smaller storage footprint for
reduced power consumption is a key data centre requirement. FAST
prov
ides customers with an annual savings of over 556,000,000 kWh,
equivalent to the energy required to power 15.2 million iPads per year.
* Eliminated over 20 million hours of manual storage administration:
Automation and efficiency is a key storage requirement necessary for
information growth. FAST reduces time spent on storage administration by
50 per cent, eliminating over 20 million hours of manual storage
administration – saving over US$1.1 Billion in storage administration
resource costs.3
Customer Quotes
John Saki , Lead Technical Consultant , Moen Incorporated
“We purchased FAST VP (Virtual Pools) to fully utilize the tiered
storage in our EMC VMAX (http://www.emc.com/storage/symmetrix/vmax.htm)™
array. We know, through analysis, that only a percentage of the data in
our large databases is extremely active, and that active data is a
moving target. FAST VP moves the data to the proper storage tier
automatically, and has resulted in a noticeable improvement in response
time.”
Brian Welch, Manager of Network Services, Clovis Unified School
District
“FAST VP helps us get the best utilization possible from our EMC VNX
(http://www.emc.com/storage/vnx/vnx-series.htm)® unified storage
solution. It’s so simple, I just set the priorities and it
automatically moves the data to the appropriate drive. We can manage our
resources efficiently and match performance with the needs of the
application, while taking almost no administrative time to do it.”
Industry Analyst Quote
David Floyer, CTO & Co-founder, Wikibon
“Technologies such as EMC FAST ensure that data is automatically
placed in the correct storage tier in order to provide the optimum
performance – at minimum cost. Today, automated storage tiering is a
powerful technology that delivers customers better control over both
their capital and operating expenses, and is evolving to become a staple
of storage environments. Wikibon recentlypublished research findings
(http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Automated_Tiered_Storage_Ready_for_Prime_Time)which
found EMC as the functional leader in early adopter environments of
automated storage tiering technology for high-end storage arrays. EMC
has built its automated tiering technologies on a platform of being the
first to integrate Flash drive technology into its enterprise storage
arrays. EMC has aggressive plans to extend the high-performance Flash
tiering into the server layer, with the potential to enable new
categories of data-rich applications with potential transformation
capabilities to improve enterprise productivity. ”
EMC Quote
Jeremy Burton, Chief Marketing Officer, EMC
“FAST is the most disruptive, game-changing innovation in the storage
industry. The technology’s dramatic adoption is entirely due to IT
organizations’ clearly seeing – and achieving – dramatic
performance and efficiency results with Flash technology. FAST
automatically brings unmatched performance and efficiency to demanding
storage environments – enabling customers to propel their business, be
more agile, and deliver more performance and efficiency for managing the
most critical applications and workloads. FAST is enabling our customers
to transform their IT operations efficiently.”
Additional Resources
* Read
(http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/Automated_Tiered_Storage_Ready_for_Prime_Time)
Wikibon’s latest research findings on automated storage tiering
* Read
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/analyst-reports/esg-vmax-enginuity-5875.pdf)
the ESG Lab Analysis Report about FAST VP for VMAX
* Read
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h8058-fast-vp-unified-storage-wp.pdf)
about FAST VP for EMC VNX
* Read
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/hardware/white-papers/h8131-storage-tiering-oracle-vmax-wp.pdf)
about FAST VP on VMAX for Oracle environments
* Watch
(http://www.emc.com/collateral/demos/microsites/mediaplayer-video/cox-comm-vmax-fast-vp-cp.htm)
the Cox Communications customer video
* Read the Safe Systems customer profile
(http://
www.emc.com/collateral/customer-profiles/h8877-safe-systems-cp.pdf)
and video ( )
* Connect with EMC via Twitter (http://twitter.com/#!/emccorp),
Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/emccorp), YouTube
(http://www.youtube.com/user/EMCCorp), and LinkedIn
(http://www.linkedin.com/company/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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For more information contact:
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michelle@stratamp.com
EMC, EMC VFCache, VMAX and VNX are either registered trademarks or
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respective owners.
1Information managed from first quarter 2010 through the fourth quarter
2011
2Based on EMC calculations
3Based on the average System Administrator salary from Gartner IT Key
Metrics Data 2011, December 17, 2010
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