EMC announces VSPEX BLUE: Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

EMC Corporation announced availability of VSPEX BLUE, its hyper-converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA) for the India market.  VSPEX BLUE is a converged infrastructure product that delivers virtualization, compute, and storage in an agile, scalable, easy-to-manage, HCIA. Available as a single, all-inclusive product for easy ordering, EMC VPEX BLUE accelerates time to market by enabling customers to go from power-on to virtual machine creation within 15 minutes, the company said in a press release.

A single point of hardware and software support by EMC assures customers of 24×7 support and repair service at their fingertips. EMC VSPEX BLUE architecture is a distributed system consisting of common modular building blocks that scale linearly from one to four 2U/4 node appliances.

EMC VSPEX BLUE Manager: integrates with VMware’s EVO:RAIL user interface; users can also conveniently access electronic services (such as EMC Knowledgebase articles), access a wealth of community-sourced online and real-time information, and familiarize themselves with EMC best practices for optimal appliance operations.

EMC CloudArray: EMC CloudArray software provides scalable, cloud-based storage with customer’s choice of many leading cloud providers. Each VSPEX BLUE appliance is offered with a free 1 TB of local caching storage, which allows up to 10 TB of total storage when connected to a public cloud provider. CloudArray provides a simple solution to cloud storage with a sophisticated bandwidth scheduler and data reduction technology that minimizes network impact and keeps your VSPEX BLUE running optimally.

Opportunity for partners: VSPEX BLUE provides opportunity to EMC’s partners to position a complete infrastructure solution that is simple to buy (single SKU), install, manage, and scale.

EMC will focus initially on a select group of partner and distributors for the EMC VSPEX BLUE appliance including Ingram Micro India Pvt Limited, Cadensworth India Limited and Avnet.

Praveen Sahai, Vice President – Channels, EMC India & SAARC, said, “EMC brings unique differentiators with the VSPEX BLUE appliance by integrating EMC’s own software, support, and other leading solutions to provide a complete, all-in-one, hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to capture the evolving hyper converged infrastructure market in India. We are excited bringing the EMC VSPEX BLUE appliance to market and leverage our distributors’ reach and scale to take this highly differentiated product to market.”