EMC Products

            EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service, which is referred to as TaaS. Central to this conversion is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset that is information in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way.

            EMC has a variety of products that are used for many different purposes. Those products cover solutions that fit the demand of a user to cover storage, data protection, cloud storage, big data, security, content management, and infrastructure management. These varieties of products are available to a multitude of customers that may have different storage needs in mind.

            One product that is offered by EMC is the XtremeIO All-Flash Scale-Out Array. This array was purpose-built for flash; the XtremeIO array is amazingly fast. The EMC XtremeIO lets you harness the power of flash storage by building in innovations like content-bases data placement and dual-stage metadata. As a result, you’ll have predictable and balanced performance, always-on data reduction, thin provisioning, data protection, writeable snapshots, encryption, and simple storage provisioning. This array is ideal for virtual desktop infrastructure, virtual server infrastructure, databases and analytics, and mixed workload consolidation.

            The starter brick of the XtremeIO has 5 TB of raw capacity, with 150K read/write IOPS and 250K Read IOPS. Other options include 1 X-Brick, 2 X-Brick cluster, 4 X-Brick cluster, and the 6 X-Brick cluster. The 6 X-Brick cluster has 120 TB of raw capacity, 900K read/write IOPS, and 1.5M Read IOPS. Some key features of the XtremeIO include: Inherently load balances data for maximum performane without tuning, provides writeable snapshots with space efficiency and zero performance impact, and delivers truly inline, always-on data deduplication to reduce capacity needs to TCO.