Overtake the Future with EMC Symmetrix VMAX

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How Do You Cross the Divide from Now to the Future?

Introducing EMC Symmetrix VMAX, purpose-built for the virtual data center. Symmetrix VMAX can take your operations to unprecedented levels of scalability and efficiency.

Make the shift:

From managing individual products and technologies to providing value-add services within the data center itself.
From trading off between functionality and cost to providing the right levels of service at the right costs.
From managing physical devices to managing policies.
From providing high availability for selected operations to delivering 24 x 7 x forever availability for all applications.

Read on, listen, watch, and explore to learn about the virtual data center of the future.

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EMC's Vision for the Virtual Data Center

Hear EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci introduce EMC's breakthrough, high-end storage architecture and talk about how it is specially designed to meet the demanding challenges facing virtual data centers.

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Cisco and EMC: Unifying the Virtual Data Center

See Rob Lloyd, Cisco's Executive Vice President of Worldwide Operations, explain how new technologies from Cisco and EMC enable customers' evolution to virtualized architectures.

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The Value of Symmetrix V-Max in the Virtual Data Center

Learn from Paul Maritz, CEO of VMware Corporation, the critical importance of intelligent, flexible storage in the virtual data center—and how Symmetrix V-Max delivers on that requirement.

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EMC's Vision for the Virtual Data Center

Joe Tucci, Chairman and CEO, EMC

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Cisco and EMC: Unifying the Virtual Data Center

Rob Lloyd, Executive Vice President Worldwide Operations, Cisco

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The Value of Symmetrix V-Max in the Virtual Data Center

Paul Maritz, CEO, VMware Corporation

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Microsoft adCenter on Symmetrix V-Max

Hear engineers from Microsoft adCenter discuss their hands-on experience with the new technology.

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The World's First Virtual Matrix Architecture

Break through the physical boundaries of traditional storage systems. The EMC Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture can scale to hundreds of petabytes, support thousands of virtual servers, and deliver millions of IOPS—all while providing 7 x 24 x forever availability.

Purpose-built for virtual data centers, the Virtual Matrix enables you to efficiently scale out your storage resources, manage them as a single entity, and easily provision resources "on demand" to meet any requirement.

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PARTNER VIDEO

IDC: EMC Symmetrix V-Max and Its Impact on the Storage Industry

Join Ben Woo, IDC's Vice President for Enterprise Storage Systems, for an analysis of current market dynamics and the impact Symmetrix V-Max will have on customers and the storage industry as a whole.

ANALYST VIDEO

ESG: Breaking Barriers with the Virtual Matrix Architecture

See Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, discuss how the Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture breaks down the barriers to ubiquitous adoption of server virtualization technology.

Download ESG Lab Validation Report: EMC Symmetrix V-Max 24xForever Storage for Virtualized Data Centers

VIDEO

Brocade and EMC: SAN Solutions for the Future

Hear from Ian Whiting, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales for Brocade, on the longstanding strategic relationship his company has forged with EMC to deliver industry-leading SAN solutions to customers worldwide.

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IDC: EMC Symmetrix V-Max and Its Impact on the Storage Industry

Benjamin Woo, Vice President for Enterprise Storage Systems, IDC

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ESG: Breaking Barriers with the Virtual Matrix Architecture

Steve Duplessie, Founder and Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

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Brocade and EMC: SAN Solutions for the Future

Ian Whiting, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Brocade

Additional Information

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Microsoft adCenter on Symmetrix V-Max

Hear engineers from Microsoft adCenter discuss their hands-on experience with the new technology.

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Events

Symmetrix V-Max Webcast Series

Learn how to accelerate your transition to a virtual data center infrastructure.

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Scale and Tier to New
Levels

Overcome the trade-off between cost and functionality. Deliver the right levels of service at the right cost with Symmetrix VMAX.

Hyper-consolidation

Consolidate multiple arrays and support more workloads in a smaller footprint. Achieve newfound energy, space, and management efficiencies.

Massive scale-out

Dynamically scale capacity and performance to unprecedented levels, and provision "on demand" to all applications.

Tiered storage

Mix Gen2 Flash, Fibre Channel, and high-capacity SATA drives in the same system to meet all requirements cost-effectively.

Simplify and Automate Management

Drive operational efficiencies: Evolve from managing physical products and technologies to delivering value-add storage capabilities.

Automated storage tiering

Ensure applications get the right performance at the right time while keeping costs in line with intelligent data mobility across Flash, FC, and SATA drives.

Automated virtual provisioning

Provision capacity to virtual servers in 96 percent fewer steps and 80 percent less time, compared to alternative systems.

Virtual server I/O optimization

Maximize utilization and automate path failover between Symmetrix VMAX and both VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual servers.

Deliver 24 x 7 x Forever Availability

Make always-on operations affordable for all your applications—not just a critical few.

Symmetrix VMAX design

Rely on non-disruptive operations during component replacement, software upgrades, configuration changes, data migrations, and system expansion.

Maximum long-distance protection

Achieve affordable "zero data loss" protection and fast restart with EMC SRDF Extended Distance Protection and built-in compression.

VMware integration

Simplify and automate the setup, failover, and testing of your disaster recovery through EMC SRDF integration with VMware Site Recovery Manager.

Additional Information

Press Release
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Microsoft adCenter on Symmetrix V-Max

Hear engineers from Microsoft adCenter discuss their hands-on experience with the new technology.

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Events

Symmetrix V-Max Webcast Series

Learn how to accelerate your transition to a virtual data center infrastructure.

Analysis & Events

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ANALYST REPORT

IDC: EMC Symmetrix V-Max - Information Infrastructure for Virtual and Physical Realities

Get a clear overview of the new Symmetrix V-Max in this detailed white paper from IDC analyst Benjamin Woo.

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ANALYST REPORT

ESG: EMC Symmetrix V-Max 24xForever Storage for Virtualized Data Centers

See the results of ESG's hands-on testing of Symmetrix V-Max storage systems.

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Technology Briefing Sessions

Learn more about Symmetrix V-Max and the Virtual Matrix Architecture through these in-depth sessions from the EMC "Overtake the Future" virtual event.

Introduction to the Symmetrix Virtual Matrix Architecture

Video: Session Overview
Podcast: Ask the Experts Q & A

Current Capabilities and Future Direction for Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST)

Video: Session Overview
Podcast: Ask the Experts Q & A

Efficient Tiering with Symmetrix V-Max and Flash Technology

Video: Session Overview
Podcast: Ask the Experts Q & A

Enabling Virtual Data Centers Using Symmetrix V-Max with Virtual LUN and Virtual Provisioning

Video: Session Overview
Podcast: Ask the Experts Q & A
Demo: An Application View of Provisioning Storage in the Virtual Data Center - Symmetrix V-Max Auto Provisioning
White Paper: Best Practices for Nondisruptive Tiering via EMC Symmetrix Virtual LUN

Advanced Remote Replication Technologies with Symmetrix V-Max

Video: Session Overview
Podcast: Ask the Experts Q & A

Value of Symmetrix V-Max for Oracle Environments

Video: Session Overview
Podcast: Ask the Experts Q & A
White Paper: EMC Symmetrix V-Max Using SRDF/TimeFinder and Oracle Database 10g/11g - Applied Technology
Reference Architecture: EMC Tiered Storage for Oracle - ILM Enabled by EMC Symmetrix V-Max

Value of Symmetrix V-Max for VMware Environments

Video: Session Overview
Podcast: Ask the Experts Q & A
Reference Architecture: EMC Virtual Infrastructure for Microsoft Applications - Data Center Solution Enabled by EMC Symmetrix V-Max and VMware ESX 3.5

Industry Perspectives

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ANALYST VIDEO

IDC: EMC Symmetrix V-Max and Its Impact on the Storage Industry

PARTNER VIDEO

Bull and EMC: A Mutually Rewarding Partnership

Hear Benoit Hallez, Director of Bull's StoreWay Storage Division, speak about his company's experience selling EMC technology and about the value and differentiation that Symmetrix V-Max will deliver for Bull.

PARTNER VIDEO

Unisys and EMC: Delivering Highly Creative Solutions

Hear David Tierno, Vice President of Strategic Alliances for Unisys, discuss the value of his company's partnership with EMC, and how Symmetrix V-Max will support the challenging demands Unisys customers face today.

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VMware and EMC: Technologies for the Virtual World

Get perspective on the relationship between VMware and EMC and hear how Symmetrix V-Max will affect the server virtualization space from Scott Davis, Chief Data Center Architect for VMware's Office of the CTO.

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IDC: EMC Symmetrix V-Max and Its Impact on the Storage Industry

Benjamin Woo, Vice President for Enterprise Storage Systems, IDC

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Bull and EMC: A Mutually Rewarding Partnership

Benoit Hallez, Director of StoreWay Storage Division, Bull

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Unisys and EMC: Delivering Highly Creative Solutions

David Tierno, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, Unisys

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VMware and EMC: Technologies for the Virtual World

Scott Davis, Chief Data Center Architect, Office of the CTO, VMware