New hyper converged infrastructure appliance hits India

NEW DELHI, INDIA: In a bid to provide mid-market and enterprise customers a faster, lowest-risk path to the private or hybrid cloud, EMC has announced its hyper converged infrastructure appliance (HCIA), named VSPEX BLUE.

The HCIA architecture is a distributed system consisting of common modular building blocks that scale linearly from one to four 2U/4 node appliances.

Available as a single, all-inclusive product VPEX BLUE accelerates time to market by enabling customers to go from power-on to virtual machine creation within 15 minutes.

According to IDC, the converged infrastructure segment grew 68.5 percent from 2012 to a $1.4 billion market opportunity in 2013. This market is predicted to expand to $17.8 billion in 2016. In addition to the established integrated systems (VCE Vblock) and integrated reference architectures (EMC VSPEX), the emerging converged infrastructure market segment—defined as hyper-converged—is gaining pace, is presenting considerable opportunity.

The VSPEX BLUE Manager integrates with VMware’s EVO:RAIL user interface to provide a seamless experience and ease-of-use functionality to users. From the HCIA, users can also access electronic services and real-time information, and familiarize themselves with EMC best practices for optimal appliance operations.

It leverages the underlying VMware Log Insight product in EVO:RAIL to capture events provide up-to-the-minute holistic notifications about the state of their virtual applications, virtual machines, and appliance hardware.

VSPEX BLUE Manager’s link and download capability also includes access to EMC CloudArray. Each 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.

According to Praveen Sahai, Vice President, Channels, EMC India & SAARC, “EMC brings unique differentiators with the VSPEX BLUE appliance by integrating EMC’s own software, support, and solutions to provide a complete, all-in-one, hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to capture the evolving hyper converged infrastructure market in India.”