EMC Switches Flash Storage To Beast Mode With XtremIO Upgrade

Data storage specialist EMC has today unveiled XtremIO version 4.0, billed as a free non-disruptive software upgrade to XtremIO v3.X arrays.

The new XtremIO 4.0 now supports new larger all-flash array configurations, expands on-demand capabilities and consolidates workloads at unprecedented levels of performance and availability. Nicknamed “The Beast” by customers, according tomEMC, XtremIO 4.0 leverages XtremIO’s scale-out architecture, more than doubling previous density with 40TBs per X-Brick and by offering configurations of up to eight 40TB X-Bricks, with non-disruptive performance and capacity expansions that automatically rebalances data to maintain consistent and predictable sub-millisecond performance.

Breakthrough

XtremIO 4.0 helps customers transform their data centre applications with ‘breakthrough’ in-memory copy services, enabling entire workflows to be streamlined and automated from the storage through the hypervisor and into the application. This is driving the rapid adoption of XtremIO across mission-critical workloads and 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).

Sandy Bryce, team leader, Enterprise Platform Strategy, Baillie Gifford, said: “XtremIO has transformed our data center by consolidating and accelerating many workloads – and XtremIO 4.0 takes it to the next level with mission-critical replication, multi-petabyte scale and support for our expanding hybrid cloud strategy. This array is so much more than just storage – it’s helping us to be more agile, innovative and efficient than ever before, at a much lower TCO.”

Eric Burgener, research director, IDC, said: “The data centre of the future has to be agile, built around IT infrastructure technology that supports the speed at which enterprises need to adapt and respond to dynamic business conditions. This has specific implications for storage in these environments, requiring high performance, broad scalability and flexibility, extremely high availability and an ability to easily integrate into evolving data center workflows. EMC XtremIO meets these requirements – key factors in its #1 market share position (by IDC’s reckoning) by revenue in the high growth All Flash Array market – and has improved upon them with this latest release.”