EMC offers new Flash capabilities with XtremIO 4.0

EMC Corporation today unveiled XtremIO™ version 4.0, a non-disruptive free software upgrade to XtremIO v3.X arrays. The XtremIO 4.0 now supports new larger all-flash array configurations, expands on-demand capabilities and consolidates workloads at much higher levels of performance and availability. It leverages XtremIO’s breakthrough scale-out architecture, more than doubling previous density with 40TBs per X-Brick and by offering configurations of up to eight 40TB X-Bricks. Its non-disruptive performance and capacity expansions automatically rebalances data to maintain consistent and predictable sub-millisecond performance.

XtremIO 4.0 helps customers transform their data center applications with in-memory copy services, enabling entire workflows to be streamlined and automated from the storage through the hypervisor and into the application. The XtremIO has been hitherto adopted across workflows such as software DevOps, real-time analytics, production and non-production database acceleration, SAP landscape consolidation, private/hybrid clouds, enterprise-wide VDI, messaging and collaboration and electronic medical records (EMRs).

The highlights of the new modifications are:

New 40TB X-Brick building blocks double the density of previous XtremIO systems to support bigger, faster clusters
Newest XtremIO all-flash array delivers mission-critical protection, petabyte-scale configurations and up to 33% more performance
Updates to copy data management services enable rapid provisioning of multiple high-performance and space-efficient database and application clones
XtremIO 4.0 includes enhanced support for hybrid cloud and private cloud storage services for scale-out storage consolidation across all workloads
Enhanced Data Protection – XtremIO supports powerful scale-out replication based on best-of-breed EMC RecoverPoint software. Data on XtremIO arrays can be replicated to other XtremIO arrays or any array supported by RecoverPoint. XtremIO replication delivers up to one-minute Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), even when replicating at data center scale with flash-array levels of workload and data change rates.
Bigger, Faster Clusters – The new 40TB X-Brick building block is double the density of previous XtremIO systemswhicvh can now scale up to eight X-Bricks with 16 N-way active controllers (up from 12), capable of delivering petabytes of effective capacity in a single rack through inline data reduction and space-efficient copies.
Online Expansion – the arrays now can be non-disruptively expanded for performance and capacity, with automatic rebalancing and no application downtime.
Application Automation – Its copy data management functions are integrated into key enterprise application management stacks such as VMware, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange to automate rich use cases, including the scheduling, attachment and expiration of space-efficient copies to application hosts.
Multi-Array Management – The new app allows single pane of glass management for multiple XtremIO clusters from a common XtremIO Management Server (XMS).
More Powerful Interface – The new update introduces extended historical reporting, maintaining two years of operating history, as well as sophisticated tagging and search functionality for handling large numbers of provisioned volumes, hosts and snapshots. It also boasts improved built-in reporting capabilities.
More Scalable – XtremIO 4.0 supports more hosts per array, more X-Bricks per array and more snapshots than before.
Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 3.0 – With XtremIO and the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud 3.0 offering, customers can now consolidate all mission-critical workloads and their non-production lifecycle copies into their Hybrid Cloud with Tier 0 Storage and Copy Services. This enables some of the most compelling hybrid cloud use cases like Database-as-a-Service and SAP-as-a-Service.

The XtremIO 4.0 software along with 40TB X-Brick configurations will be orderable this calendar quarter.