EMC Corporation has announced a quantum leap forward in its enterprise storage strategy with major additions to the industry's leading all-flash storage solutions to address mixed, consolidated and the world's most performance-intensive enterprise workloads. Complementing the industry-leading XtremIO all flash array, the announcement of EMC's flagship VMAX All Flash enterprise data services platform and EMC DSSD D5 Rack-Scale Flash solution underscores EMC's commitment to all flash arrays for primary storage EMC's flash portfolio is designed to address virtually any enterprise data center use case, enabling the Modern Data Center. By 2020, EMC estimates that all storage used for production applications will be flash-based; traditional disk will primarily be used for archive and content depots only. EMC's all-flash portfolio is purpose-built to address virtually any enterprise data center use case. XtremIO all-flash arrays for accelerating and consolidating mixed block storage workloads such as databases, analytics, server virtual machines, and virtual desktop infrastructures that require consistent and predictable performance with sub-millisecond latencies. XtremIO is designed to address most high-end enterprise workloads with some of the industry's best inline data compression and de-duplication capabilities for improved capacity economics. VMAX all Flash for consolidating mixed block and file workloads that require up to "six-nines" of enterprise availability, rich data services, IBM mainframe and iSeries support, and scalable storage growth. VMAX All Flash offers the gold standard of replication, recovery, data services and quality of service, re-engineered with all-flash to deliver up to four petabytes (PB) of storage capacity. DSSD D5 Rack-Scale Flash – a new flash storage category with breakthrough performance - for the most performance-intensive, traditional and next-generation use cases that require microsecond latencies such as real-time analytics for Hadoop and Oracle. VNX Series arrays provide EMC's simplest and most economic all-flash offering. The all-flash VNXe starts at less than $25K and offers support for file and block workloads for midrange enterprises and departmental workloads.
