Virtual Instruments, a provider of infrastructure performance management
(IPM) solutions and Panduit, a provider of Unified Physical
Infrastructure (UPI)-based solutions, today announced a new
solution for EMC VSPEX for End User Computing
with XtremIO proven infrastructure. The technology integration delivers
a proven approach to deploying converged infrastructure with embedded
performance monitoring across all systems and environments. This
enhanced solution will provide EMC customers and partners with
comprehensive visibility and definitive insight into their
infrastructures’ functions and operations across all virtualized and
cloud environments.
The EMC VSPEX for End User Computing with XtremIO architecture is
targeted at the most demanding application I/O requirements for end user
computing where transaction level performance is required. Through
collaboration with Virtual Instruments’ VirtualWisdom infrastructure
performance management (IPM) and Panduit tapped fiber cassettes, the new
XtremIO offering gives users the ability to collect, monitor, and
analyze granular real-time data at the storage protocol layer through to
the virtualization layer. This solution enables customers to optimize
EMC VSPEX with XtremIO deployments to ensure increased application
performance and availability, and highly efficient hardware utilization.
Pete Eggimann, Director, VSPEX Ecosystem program at EMC, said, “We
continue to deliver on our promise to give customers best-in-class
technology that allows for faster deployments, greater efficiency, and
lower risk deploying VSPEX architectures. In collaboration with Panduit
and Virtual Instruments, VSPEX with XtremIO deployments combine
industry-leading compute, network, and virtualization technologies with
real-time performance and diagnostic monitoring capabilities to ensure
predictable performance levels of the most demanding and critical end
user computing workloads.”
Virtual Instruments and Panduit created the EMC VSPEX with XtremIO
integrated offering to help streamline platform configurations for quick
and consistent deployments of virtualized desktop infrastructure and
applications.
Panduit provides the cabling infrastructure, including QuickNet™ Tapped
Fiber Cassettes, which enables Virtual Instruments to integrate the
additional layer of intelligence and infrastructure performance
management technology into the EMC VSPEX with XtremIO architecture. Such
deployments will enable EMC partners to provide customers with expanded
services and support for mission-critical workloads.
“We are excited to deepen our partnership with EMC and Virtual
Instruments to provide our ecosystem partners with the ability to
proactively deliver physical layer monitoring capabilities to their
customers to help optimize infrastructure performance,” said Jeff
Paliga, Director, Data Center Solutions, Panduit.
With the explosion of virtualized applications across software defined
data centers, enterprises are beginning to proactively instrument
performance management capabilities at time of deployment. This
reference architecture enables customers to deliver embedded performance
management capabilities to identify and fix any performance degradation
in real-time.
“EMC continues to lead the industry with reference architectures that
provide customers with a simple, yet flexible, platform that can easily
be configured based on the performance characteristics of the
application. The joint EMC with VirtualWisdom architecture reduces the
complexity and risk that typically come with virtualizing IO-intensive
workloads by building in tools to increase performance and
availability,” said Jason Cowie, Strategic Alliances Director, Virtual
Instruments.
EMC delivery partner World Wide Technology (WWT) is the first to
offer this embedded performance management architecture to optimize EMC
VSPEX flash workloads, as well as to give customers a highly available
converged platform that provides built-in performance and monitoring
diagnostic capabilities.” Scott Miller, Director of data center at WWT,
said, “The collaboration between Panduit, EMC, and Virtual Instruments
lets us demonstrate high-performance compute and, at the same time, adds
systemwide insight for mission-critical workloads within our advanced
technology center. This joint integration is a widely applicable and
highly valuable addition to an already best-in-class EMC VSPEX with
XtremIO proven infrastructure."