New Dell EMC VxRail Appliances and VxRack System 1000 Powered by PowerEdge Servers Broaden Use Cases, Lower Entry Price Points, Deliver Best GPU-assisted VDI and Improved All-flash Economics
Dell EMC announced at the recently concluded Dell EMC World 2016 in Austin that it has expanded its leading converged systems portfolio by integrating its industry-leading PowerEdge servers into VxRail Appliances and VxRack System 1000 hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to address new use cases. By owning both the compute and storage layers of the hyper-converged stack and having a unique co-engineering relationship with VMware, Dell EMC can deliver even more customer value by innovating faster. Dell EMC’s world-class supply chain provides quality, flexibility and speed of delivery and can offer new price points that allow more customers to enjoy the benefits of HCI. Now customers can partner with a single vendor for end-to-end HCI with comprehensive service and support offerings that provide a path to assisting business growth and investment protection to modernize their data center.
Terri McClure, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group said, “Dell EMC owning both the compute and storage portions of the hyper-converged stack is a game-changer for the HCI portfolio. It allows the company to deliver more value choices for customers via investment protection, faster innovation. supply chain advantages and savings it can pass on. The fast integration of PowerEdge servers into VxRail Appliances and VxRack Systems is a major example of the synergy of the acquisition and the benefits of the companies coming together – more value, more choice and maintained investment protection for customers.”
The VxRail Appliance Family, the industry’s only HCI appliances specifically developed and fully optimized for VMware environments, now have configurations powered by the latest Intel Broadwell Platforms, VMware vSphere and VMware VSAN technologies and based on PowerEdge servers. These feature 40% more CPU performance for the same price, increased flexibility and scalability with more configurations than before, all-flash nodes equipped with 2x more storage and a new 3-node entry point that is 25% less expensive.
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John Fanelli, vice president of Products, NVIDIA said, “Within any organization, high-performance users need to be productive and work quickly without compromise. NVIDIA Tesla GPUs with NVIDIA GRID software and the Dell PowerEdge R730 server let people work on demanding, graphics-intensive applications and projects from any location on a variety of devices.”
Chad Sakac, President, the Converged Platforms and Solutions Division of Dell EMC said, “As the clear market leader in converged infrastructure and the HCI domain being the fastest-growing segment driven by customers modernizing their data centers, Dell EMC is maniacally focused on continuing to expand our HCI portfolio to address more uses cases for customers of all sizes. With our industry-leading PowerEdge Servers in VxRail Appliances and VxRack Systems, customers gain tremendous functionality and better economics to leverage HCI for workloads whether they live on the edge or the core of the data center.”
Rajesh Ramnani, Regional Director at VCE said, “Industries today are facing significant disruption. To ahead of the curve and to survive the competition it is becoming imperative for modern IT organization to take advantage of all the latest technology advances. To assist the customers better Dell EMC offers quality, flexible and cost efficient hyper converged solutions that will address their business critical needs and help them drive innovation for the business.”
