VCE UNVEILS VxRack: industry’s first hyper-converged Rackscale system delivers massive scale out infrastructure with simplicity
Proving its metal and raising the bar once again, VCE brings to the digital world a new family of hyper-converged RackScale Systems that enables enterprises and Service Providers to dramatically simplify the deployment of next generation scale out mobile, cloud and distributed Tier 2 applications.
“Over the past five years, customers have trusted VCE to enable them to rapidly deploy data center scale converged infrastructure so they can focus on delivering next-generation IT services to their businesses. This customer trust combined with our deep experience delivering simplified, operationally efficient solutions positions VCE perfectly to redefine the hyper-converged segment with the scale out VxRack engineered systems.” said Praveen Akkiraju, VCE CEO.
The VCE VxRack System enables customers to start from dozens of servers and scale to many thousands of servers — tens of petabytes of storage capacity while delivering the highest performance and value per IOP. Most importantly, VCE brings its proven methodology of pre-engineered factory built infrastructure with single call lifecycle support to deliver a massively scaled out hyper-converged VxRack Systems with the same unmatched VCE customer experience.
To be available from Q3, VxRack Systems are purpose built to enable enterprises and Service Providers to support existing Tier 2 and emerging born in the cloud applications with massive scale capability and cost optimisation,” said Praveen.
“VCE’s VxRack System provides a scalable architecture that can support multi hypervisors and bare metal deployments, allowing enterprises and service providers to consolidate virtualized, cloud native applications and emerging databases onto a shared infrastructure platform,” said Wikibon Senior Analyst Stu Miniman.
“Since the VxRack is completely modular, it really allows us to enter at a lower price point, or a smaller footprint, and easily scale up over time to build our solutions with improved OPEX for our clients.,” said Shelley Perry, Chief Product Officer of Cloud Solutions, Dimension Data.
“The VCE VxRack System has the opportunity to make a significant impact on the Industry because it provides tremendous flexibility with its software-defined storage infrastructure and support for multiple hypervisors, as well as bare metal.,” said David J. Sampson, Executive Vice President and CTO, Itrica Corporation.
As IT organizations standardize on converged infrastructure as the foundation for their next generation data centers, VCE is well positioned with a comprehensive vision and portfolio to help customers deliver world class cloud and mobile ready IT services to their business.
