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EMC® for the third year in a row has been named the #1 storage vendor in the annual study of storage integration with VMware® vSphere by Wikibon, a leading market industry analyst firm.
· The study ranked EMC #1 as offering the most integrated storage solution for VMware environments.
· EMC VNX® scored better than the five other storage vendors in the study.
· EMC VNX was #1 in each of the three categories – general, block-only and file storage.
· EMC VMAX ranked #1 array for Tier 1 storage.
· The study ranked EMC VNX and VMAX highest for security.
· EMC continues to add more value for customers’ VMware environments with continual enhancements from all EMC storage platforms, EMC ViPR™ software defined storage platform, EMC Global Services and RSA®.
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EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced it has been named the #1 storage solution in Wikibon’s annual virtualization study: “VMware Dominant in Multi-Hypervisor Data Centers.” Wikibon, a leading market industry analyst firm performed a research study analyzing vendor integration with VMware environments. EMC storage systems rated the highest in each of the three categories — general, block-only and file-only storage.
EMC VNX and EMC VMAX are the leading storage systems in the block-only category among the thirteen products featured in the study, with the VNX named as the #1 storage solution for VMware vSphere in the 2013 research, as well as the 2012 and 2011 reports.
The study ranks storage vendors based on integration with VMware technology.EMC, as a leading information infrastructure provider for VMware solutions, provides customers running VMware with the availability, protection, automation, and security needed to virtualize and gain competitive advantage making it easier for customers to adopt cloud and virtualization technologies to run VMware systems in next-generation cloud infrastructures with increasing levels of automation.
Through the tight integrations with VMware, EMC relieves customers of the need to maintain complex scripting between environments, allowing IT resources to be better managed and aligned around business requirements and policies and, thereby, reducing costs and improving operational efficiencies.
Leveraging Technology – New Integrations
Customers rated the available offerings of the top storage vendors based on criteria such as data protection, storage performance, management, storage network support and security. Integrations with VMware technology was the survey’s most often cited differentiating factor and most sought after storage attribution for vSphere 5.1 implementations.
As proof of EMC’s deepened integration with VMware is the EMC Storage Analytics Suite 2.0 (ESA). Customers can now leverage ESA across the VNX and VMAX families to monitor and troubleshoot their environments. Built upon VMware vCenter Operations Manager, ESA extends analytics into the storage domain providing storage and virtualization administrators increased visibility into their systems designed to enable increased efficiency and improved overall productivity. ESA as a stand-alone analytics solution is engineered to provide in depth storage analytics and end-to-end topology mapping on supported VMAX and VNX arrays in a VMware environment.
In addition, the EMC ViPR software defined storage platform provides several areas of integration with VMware including integration with VMware vCenter Orchestrator and VMware vCloud Automation Center to automate policy-based storage provisioning. ViPR leverages technologies with VMware APIs for vSphere Storage Awareness to enable a single interface that centrally manages storage profiles and views ViPR storage pools within vCenter. ViPR integrations with VMware vCenter Operations provide a single dashboard view of storage health and expand the integration with the EMC Storage Resource Management (SRM) suite. These integrations reinforce the openness of ViPR which is currently scheduled to become generally available in the second half of 2013.
Additionally, RSA Security Analytics interoperability with VMware’s virtualized networking platform enables security administrators to see all packet data in the virtual data center and specifically VM to VM traffic on a given host. Combining visibility into VM traffic traversing both the physical and virtual networks helps eliminate critical blind spots for security monitoring so that security teams can respond quickly when infected or suspicious virtual machines are detected.
Designed to enable IT transformation, EMC’s new hybrid cloud automation services integrate with VMware operations and managementtechnologies to enable customers to deliver ITaaS.The new services help IT organizations reduce costs and gain greater agility across the software defined data center.
Executive Quote
John Roese, Chief Technology Officer, EMC Corporation
“Addressing the IT complexities our customers face head on requires tight VMware integration with their Software Defined Data Center. Our customers expect EMC to lead and support innovation. This study affirms that customers can continue to count on EMC to deliver the world-class solutions they can rely upon to lead their IT transformation.”