First announced back in May, the EMC Federation Hybrid Cloud solution is designed to enable IT organizations to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively build a hybrid cloud. At VMworld 2015 EMC gave everyone a preview of the upcoming enhancements centered on application lifecycle automation capabilities, Always-on and secure Infrastructure as a Service, and new deployment options with the VCE VxRack System. Today the EMC Federation is announcing that its Hybrid Cloud solution 3.5 is generally available.
First announced back in May, the EMC Federation Hybrid Cloud solution is designed to enable IT organizations to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively build a hybrid cloud. At VMworld 2015 EMC gave everyone a preview of the upcoming enhancements centered on application lifecycle automation capabilities, Always-on and secure Infrastructure as a Service, and new deployment options with the VCE VxRack System. Today the EMC Federation is announcing that its Hybrid Cloud solution 3.5 is generally available.
As previously stated, The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution combines integrated hardware, software, and services from EMC Information Infrastructure, VMware, and VCE and is designed to unite the strengths of private and public cloud and drives business agility by empowering users to easily procure applications and resources whenever they need them with the service levels they choose. The hybrid cloud solution enables IT-as-a-Service, giving customers better efficiencies in traditional IT functions and service workflows as well as cost savings that some are reporting as high as $50 million within five years.
The latest version comes with several enhancements going beyond what was previewed at VMworld. These enhancements include:
- Reduce Operation Costs and Speed Application Delivery – Based on VMware vRealize Code Stream, 3.5 as a new add-on option that automates the software release pipeline for application development. By automating the tasks required to build, deploy and test at each stage in the release delivery pipeline, it enables continuous delivery, allowing application developers to push the latest enhancements fast and efficiently.
- Co-Existence Architecture for OpenStack Environments – VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) is a VMware OpenStack distribution that makes it easier for IT to run a production-grade OpenStack-based deployment on their existing VMware infrastructure, leveraging VMware management tools they’re already familiar with. VIO functionality is designed to deliver continuous application development integration and deployment, so that the business can deliver new services as soon as code is ready on VMware vSphere and VMware Integrated OpenStack deployments as well as other OpenStack deployments.
- Optimize Data Protection with Expanded Services – 3.5 gives customers the flexibility to add, remove or modify backup and disaster recovery services at any time – via the self-service catalog.
- New Infrastructure Options and Increased Scalability – EMC has been introducing new hardware with a focus on more all-flash options. All-flash options in the hybrid cloud will appeal to those customers with tier zero workloads. With 3.5 EMC is offering XtremIO 4.0, a wider choice of VCE VxBlock Systems, and will soon support the EMC VMAX All Flash arrays and VCE VxRack Systems.
- More performance and memory for certain workloads – Customers using Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP will see 2x more compute power and 4x more memory capacity with VMware vSphere 6 while integrating with third-party management tools, such as Puppet, providing simplified automation management for provisioning application resources.
Availability
EMC Federation Hybrid Cloud solution 3.5 is generally available now.
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