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Need for speed? Catch up with EMC's Business Solutions
Wed, 9th Oct 2013
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Want faster applications for a growing business? All at a cost effective price?

Satisfy your need for speed with EMC's new Midsized business Solutions, based on best of breed products.

One of the industry’s most simple, efficient and flexible solutions, the predictable performance of VSPEX has now been further enhanced with the inclusion of the new VNX 5400, 5600 and 5800 Series.

Designed to support up to 1000 virtual machines, the new additions ensure VSPEX workloads at twice the value.

These new VSPEX configurations powered by VNX further speed transformation to the cloud by driving simplicity and offering more VMs per system, thereby reducing time-intensive planning, sizing and configuration by administrators.

Customers are able to rapidly adopted and deployed the simple, efficient and flexible reference architecture built on EMC's award-winning storage systems and data protection products, along with best-of-breed virtualization, server, and network technology from EMC alliance partners Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware.

“With VSPEX, we finished our private cloud deployment faster than expected because we skipped the steps for design, installation, and configuration," says In-Jae Lee, IT Team Manager at Segyung Britestone in Korea.

"This shortened our project schedule by 43%, lowered our TCO by 35% and our environment is now 100% virtualized.

"VSPEX dramatically accelerated our journey to cloud computing.”

Whether it be for businesses of 100 or 1000 employees, essentially, the backup and data protection options for VSPEX are unmatched.

To deliver the latest backup and recovery technology all VSPEX solutions leverage the new Data Domain DD 2500, DD 4200, Avamar 7, and VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced.

Now customers will be able to choose the backup and data protection option that fits their company size along with their data and application availability requirements.

“At Acorda Therapeutics time to market is everything - our patients depend on us to deliver quickly," says Josh Bauer, Assistant Director, Network Operations, Acorda Therapeutics in the USA.

"With VSPEX running our data center, we spend far less time managing our IT infrastructure, and far more time innovating through IT to ensure our customers get what they need.”

Key highlights include:

• The new VNX series fully unleashes the power of flash, accelerating application and file performance by up-to 4X. The new platform also delivers unprecedented price/performance—one-third the price for the same performance of the previous industry leading generation.

• The revolutionary new EMC VNX Series delivers unprecedented price/performance

• The world’s fastest-growing reference architecture, EMC VSPEX, now delivers 2X more virtual machines at the same price, and an even broader spectrum of choice for workloads that matter most—powered by the new EMC VNX Series.

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