Emc announces availability of vipr software defined storage platform

Vnx2 seemed due for a refresh, but nothing happened. Storage capacity reporting for dell emc and multivendor storage environments. Emc vipr is rated 0, while ibm cloud object storage is rated 0. Emc announces availability of vipr softwaredefined storage. May 6th, 20 by josh shaman emc announces emc vipr software defined storage platform. Emc is scheduled to deliver the vipr softwaredefined storage platform later this monthwell ahead of industry expectations. On the other hand, emc vipr is most compared with emc vplex, red hat ceph storage and ibm spectrum virtualize, whereas ibm cloud object storage is. Vipr abstracts storage from disparate arrays into a single pool of storage capacity that makes it easier to manage and automate its own datastorage devices and those made by competitors. Emc announces upcoming updates to isilon onefs geekfluent. Emcs project bourne comes out of stealth mode as vipr, a softwaredefined storage platform aimed at a future of hyperscale datacentres and big data analytics. Emc vipr is a lightweight software platform that abstracts existing storage arrays into a single pool of virtual storage.

With vipr, enterprises and service providers can deliver storage asaservice for about a penny per gb per month. July 20 emc announces an agreement to acquire privatelyheld scaleio, a pioneer in serverside storage software. In 2012, emc announced more than 40 new or upgraded products. Note that this is essentially announcing the vipr product and program initiative with general availability slated. Not only is this not the first but it barely qualifies for calling itself a software defined storage platform at all. May 05, 2014 emc vipr is the worlds first software defined storage platform that is designed to provide the ability to manage both storage infrastructure called the control plane and the data stored within. Emc launches elastic cloud storage ecs with vipr 2. Emc unveils new vipr software defined storage platform. The new vnx series a unified storage array, was highly anticipated and includes the new models vnx5200, vnx5400, vnx5600, vnx5800, vnx7600, replacing similar models in former vnx line, a new top of the line vnx8000 and the all flash model vnxf. Emc vipr softwaredefined storage platform available this quarter and emc vspex available this quarter. Vmware vrealize automation empowers users by delivering personalized, businessrelevant it services. Vipr, announced at emc world in may, is now generally available for sale. It can deliver fully automated storage services and realize the full potential of the software defined data center.

May 05, 2014 emc announces major updates to their sds platform vipr 2. Enterprises want a mix of proprietary and open source code and emc taking the plunge with its vipr controller. May 08, 20 the theme of emc world 20 is the software defined datacenter. Introducing emc vipr softwaredefined storage emc pulse. At emc world in las vegas emc has announced availability of the ecs elastic cloud. While storage solutions will always require that hardware be involved, software defined storage allows the ability to provide storage services without being tied to any. Emc has introduced a software defined storage platform, emc vipr to manage. There have been only eight product releases this year, and only one can be considered major. Planned for availability on github next month, project coprhd is. Emc vipr is shippingand vipr central is now available.

The platform, called vipr, is based on emc s project bourne, and will allow customers to build large, single pools of storage with two levels of control possible, including big data capabilities. Emc announces availability of vipr softwaredefined. Vipr controller is a softwaredefined storage offering from emc corporation announced on may 6, 20, at emc world. Emc releases project coprhd for communitydriven development of softwaredefined storage automation. Storage giant emc is launching a storage platform named vipr that allows businesses to use low cost commodity hardware in data centres. Like other vendors, emc is promising to revolutionize the way customers will provision, manage and create storage resources using vipr. At emc world 20, emc has introduced emc vipr, the worlds first softwaredefined storage platform. Emc vnx storage refresh finally goes public insidebigdata. Emc has announced new products that help give customers the speed they need to lead their it transformation. Emc announces free and frictionless access to softwaredefined storage software to. Sds products can be hyperconverged systems engineered and supported as a single product leveraging dell emc. Emc world 2014 today at emc world 2014, emc corporation nyse. May, 20 emc slides into software defined storage with vipr.

Emc creates open source project, offers free downloads of. Today at emc world, emc announced vipr, a new open storage platform that enables the abstraction of the storage layer into a single pool of virtual storage within a software defined data center. Emc rolls out vipr for softwaredefined storage techradar. Theres been practically a firestorm when emc announced vipr, its own version of software defined storage at emc world last week. As service provider and enterprise data centers grow to tens and hundreds of petabytes, the cost and complexity associated with managing them becomes untenable.

Emc unveils vipr softwaredefined storage platform on the one hand customers can choose to use vipr s socalled control level, which will unify the management and provisioning of storage from heterogenous storage arraysmedia from one screen. By using vipr, sap was able to reduce administration time as well as prepare for a global softwaredefined data center strategy. Emc vipr can manage both the storage infrastructure and the data that exists within the storage using policybased automation. Today at emc world, emc announced vipr, a new open storage platform that enables the abstraction of the storage layer into a single pool of virtual storage within a softwaredefined data center. Vipr was first announced earlier this year at emc world in the us. Emcs project nile elastic cloud storage platform will become a clear competitor to amazon web services and its s3 storage. Emc announces free and frictionless access to softwaredefined storage software to help propel itdriven business transformations emc releases project coprhd copperhead, the open source version of emc vipr controller project coprhd to be available on. Brocade and emc deliver softwaredefined storage for fibre. Emc announces availability of vipr software defined storage platform.

The control plane level allows users to see and manage heterogeneous storage. Sap on the softwaredefined data center with emc vipr. With endtoend san visibility of storage arrays like powermax, vmax, dell emc unity, xtremio and other dell emc products, compliance management support and breadth of platform coverage including third party vendors and topnotch reporting capabilities. Vce announces new converged solution with vmware and emc. Lightweight, software only product that transforms existing storage into a simple, extensible, and open platform. Emc announces major updates to their sds platform vipr 2. Emc vipr virtual physical object and software defined storage sds. Emc are calling vipr the first software defined storage platform. And confirming its push into the software defined data center space, it said vipr, its software defined storage platform designed for webscale data center operations, will be available later this month. Emc announces emc vipr softwaredefined storage platform.

Brocade further integrates san management technology into emc. Emc asd advanced software division is announcing its software defined storage platform emc vipr which operates on existing storage to help manage the robust data growth experienced in the enterprise. Today, at emc world, emc announced their new midrange unified storage platform, called unity. New vipr softwaredefined storage brings cloudscale. To sell vipr, emc will have to convince customers it can make good on its lowcost, lowcomplexity promises rather than selling them on the software defined storage term. The emc vipr softwaredefined storage platform uniquely provides the ability to both manage storage infrastructure control plane and the data residing within that infrastructure data plane. Brocade and emc work together to enable softwaredefined. Sep 04, 20 emc is scheduled to deliver the vipr softwaredefined storage platform later this monthwell ahead of industry expectations. Emc vnx and vspex systems transform virtualized infrastructure. Vipr object data services support amazon s3, openstack swift and atmos apis, in. Emc releases project coprhd for communitydriven development of software defined storage automation. Emcs vipr softwaredefined storage aims to provide a multivendor. This hardwareagnostic, softwaredefined converged storage platform has been.

Vipr delivers the ability to both manage storage infrastructure the. Jul 08, 2014 emc announces products to speed new application innovation, reduce cost and accelerate the journey to the hybrid cloud. Emcs newlyannounced softwaredefined storage layer, vipr formerly known as project bourne will act as the gobetween allowing object access from isilon to the platforms mentioned above. Softwaredefined storage is a storage architecture that uses a layer of software to provision, orchestrate and manage physical data storage capacity on industrystandard servers. Emc open sources vipr controller, eyes broader software. Vipr is emcs platform that turns storage infrastructure into a simple, extensible and open softwaredefined storage solution. Emc vipr is the worlds first software defined storage platform that is designed to manage both storage infrastructure called the control plane and the data stored within that infrastructure. Deployable in a software defined model or as a turnkey appliance, ecs boasts unmatched scalability, manageability, resilience, and economics to meet the demands of modern business. Vipr first announced at emc world this time last year allows customers to build large, single pools of. The technology separates the control plane from the data plane.

Emc announces products to speed new application innovation. Vipr is the software defined storage platform for companies looking to transform their storage infrastructure and gain the value and benefits of the 3rd platform. Emc revamps vnx for flash storage data center knowledge. Emc aims to define softwaredefined storage with vipr. Emc announces availability of vipr softwaredefined storage platform.

Emc vipr is the worlds first softwaredefined storage platform that is designed to provide the ability to manage both storage infrastructure called the control plane and the data stored within. Emc launches vmax all flash, dssd d5 shared flash storage. Sap is working on centralizing its global data center operations, and vipr will enable it to administer everything with standardized, automated processes. For support, customers can join the emc vipr community to access. New emc storage arrays systems software defined storage speed. This enables vipr to be integrated as part of a vmware softwaredefined data center or on its own. September 20 emc announces availability of vipr softwaredefined storage platform. The new version of onefs adds simple blockbased deduplication of. Emc creates open source project, offers free downloads of softwaredefined storage product emc releases project coprhd, the open source version of emc vipr controller, and offers free downloads of. Emc announced technology advances in the emc vnx line of midrange storage, new capabilities for the emc vspex, and the upcoming general availability of a new software defined storage platform. Emc announces new midrange unified storage platform. Emc vipr is a new approach to delivering storage that transforms an existing multivendor storage infrastructure into a simple, extensible, and open softwaredefined storage platform. Vipr delivers the ability to both manage storage infrastructure the control plane through the vipr controller and the data residing within that infrastructure the data plane through vipr data services.

Discover emc vipr controller, storage automation software that centralizes and transforms multivendor storage into a simple and extensible platform, with open source communitydriven development. Project coprhd copperhead source code shares the same core features and functionality of emc vipr controller. With vipr, enterprises and service providers can deliver storageasaservice for about a penny per gb per month. Watch sap senior director of data center operations juergen burkhardt discuss saps softwaredefined data center with emc vipr. Jul 23, 2015 vipr controller is storage automation software based on the open source development project coprhd on github. Brocade, emc join for softwaredefined storage package.

Vipr object data services support amazon s3, openstack swift and atmos apis vipr. Vipr will easily integrate with vmwarebased environments, and will enable organizations to centrally access and manage emc and heterogeneous physical storage infrastructure. September 20 emc announces availability of vipr software defined storage platform. Emc software adapters connect to the underlying arrays, similar to how pcs and macs use universal device drivers to connect to peripherals. Some time last summer, i remember thinking that it was weird that we hadnt seen a megalaunch event announcement from emc. Realizing software defined storage with emc vipr, principled technologies, 2014. Emc vipr, enables their partners to extend programmability of virtual environments into storage thus providing customers with more choices. A person might say it stands for virtualization platform reinvented, but we just like the name, he said. Emc also announced new capabilities emc vspex reference architecture, general availability of emc vipr software defined. Emc expands vipr support, uses it to power private cloud appliance a year after its initial announcement, emc expands upon vipr softwaredefined storage at emc world 2014. Announcements included revolutionary technology advances in the emc vnx line of midrange storage, new capabilities for the worlds fastest growing reference architecture emc vspex, the upcoming general availability of emc vipr a new software defined storage platform, and. Emc vipr is software defined storage to manage and automate all storage resources for traditional and nextgeneration cloud storage platforms. Emc, reminding the it world that it is indeed a global corporation, eschewed the standard new yorksan franciscolas vegas launch scenarios.

Sep 06, 2016 july 20 emc announces an agreement to acquire privatelyheld scaleio, a pioneer in serverside storage software. May 05, 2015 emc open sources vipr controller, eyes broader software defined storage footprint. Emc announces roadmaps for flash storage and the cloud dcd. Emc vipr is a new approach to delivering storage that transforms an existing multivendor storage infrastructure into a simple, extensible, and open software defined storage platform. Today emc executives, customers and partners kicked off an aroundtheworld, 24hour live.

In another of their announcements on the first day of emc world, emc announced a series of major updates and new features for their software defined storage sds platform, vipr. Vipr controller is available as a nocharge software download for non production use. Storage giant emc is launching a storage platform named vipr that allows businesses to use. It will now be available with a price of one us cent per gigabyte for the. This video demonstrates the installation process of dell emc storage monitoring and reporting as a vapp and provide best practices to accomplish a successful installation. Emc unveils new cloud storage, vnx refresh, vipr platform. Instead of having to do all the steps of storage provisioning manually, vipr will automate most of these steps. Project coprhd makes the code for vipr controller all the storage. Get a quick glimpse of emc vipr software defined storage in the data sheet. Now i know why the emc team was working on unity instead.

The next platform devclass blocks and files continuous lifecycle london mcubed. Emc unveils new vipr softwaredefined storage platform. Vipr controller creates a unified storage platform that appears as logical storage. Emc announces availability of vipr software defined storage. Vipr is emcs flagship softwaredefined storage product. Whether you want to call it virtualization platform re defined or reimagined, competitors such as netapp, hds, nexenta have taken potshots at emc, and touting their own version of software defined storage.

Laura dubois, program vp, storage practice, idc, said. May 06, 20 emc asd advanced software division is announcing its software defined storage platform emc vipr which operates on existing storage to help manage the robust data growth experienced in the enterprise. Some people think that using software to manage commodity storage is software defined storage. With this new solution, vce is scaling its formula of simplicity and outstanding customer experience up and down the cloud infrastructure stack through an expanded portfolio of integrated solutions, taking full advantage of key softwaredefined data center technologies from emc and vmware. Emc announces open source version of vipr controller dell. Emc slides into software defined storage with vipr zdnet. Click here to visit the emc vipr software defined storage playlist.

The new platform can manage storage infrastructure control plane and the data residing within that infrastructure. Emc vipr is ranked 23rd in software defined storage sds while ibm cloud object storage is ranked 10th in file and object storage. Emc announces open source version of vipr controller emc releases project coprhd for communitydriven development of softwaredefined storage automation story highlights. Emc slides into software defined storage with vipr. Ecs, the leading object storage platform from dell emc, has been engineered to support both traditional and nextgeneration workloads alike.

Like cloud, everyone has their own slightly different definition of what software defined storage means. The emc vipr controller leverages existing storage infrastructures for traditional workloads, but provisions new vipr object data services with access via amazon s3 or hdfs apis for nextgeneration workloads. Emc announces availability of vipr software defined. Emc announced the general availability of emc vipr softwaredefined storage platform, planned for later this month. It centralizes and transforms multivendor storage into a simple and extensible platform. Emc s approach to software defined storage is a journey, recognising that we are going to transition from our traditional storage systems that we have today, to storage infrastructures where the. Emc expands vipr support, uses it to power private cloud. Vipr is a storage virtualization platform that automates provisioning and centralizes management in emc environments. Emc vipr is the worlds first softwaredefined storage platform that uniquely provides the ability to manage both.