10 Hot Products From EMC World To Hit The Storage Scene

By  Joseph F. Kovar, CRN 2:00 PM EST Tue. May. 14, 2013

Even so, there was no mistaking the interest from the crowded solutions pavilion in the Las Vegas Sands Convention Center where EMC and its friends both large and small regaled attendees with a wide range of new storage hardware, software and services.

Campbell, Calif.-based Aptare said at EMC World that its Aptare StorageConsole has been validated for use as part of an EMC VSPEX converged infrastructure solution.

Aptare helps customers better understand their heterogeneous storage and data protection environments across both internal data centers and external private clouds. The Aptare StorageConsole provides chargeback across business units or departments based on raw, allocated or utilized storage volumes; visibility across both internal data centers and external private cloud environments; and tracking and auditable results to prove compliance with regulatory requirements.

A highlight of EMC World was the introduction EMC ViPR, the company’s first open software-defined storage platform.

ViPR abstracts and virtualizes storage while maintaining the unique capabilities of the underlying storage arrays. The platform automates provisioning by creating pre-defined policy-driven virtual storage arrays and delivers self-service access to storage. It centralizes storage management and monitors utilization, performance and health all though a single interface across physical and virtual storage.

Because ViPR is software-defined, it can extend to support non-EMC arrays, initially including arrays from rival NetApp. It also uses industry standard APIs to access cloud storage based on Amazon S3, OpenStack Swift and EMC Atmos technologies.

Panzura, the Campbell, Calif.-based developer of solutions for integrating cloud-based storage as a storage tier, said at EMC World that the company has added FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated Hardware Security Module (HSM) to provide high performance crypto acceleration. The encryption keys are never exposed, providing logical and physical protection from non-authorized access including potential hardware tampering attempts.

The new Panzura solution was validated under the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP), a joint effort between National Institute of Standards and Technologies (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) of the Government of Canada.  Solutions validated as conforming to FIPS 140-2 are accepted by the federal agencies of both countries for the protection of sensitive information (United States) or designated information (Canada), the company said.

Secure-24, a Southfield, Mich.-based provider of cloud computing, application outsourcing and enterprise hosting services, has added a new backup-as-a-service solution to its portfolio of services.

The new service provides enterprises with a solution for reliable, secure ITIL-based data protection processes for their environments.

It leverages EMC Avamar hardware and software, EMC NetWorker data protection software, and EMC Data Domain deduplication systems along with Secure-24′s high availability and compliance technology to support customers’ business critical applications and highly available environments within the company’s own Michigan, Arizona and Nevada facilities.

WAN optimization appliance developer Silver Peak used EMC World to introduce two new data center class software products, the Silver Peak VX-8000 and VX-9000, which the company called the industry’s fastest software data accelerators. Also on display was the Silver Peak NX-11K, a 2U hardware appliance the company said set a new world record for WAN performance with 5 Gbits per second WAN capacity and up to 20 Gbps of optimized throughput for TCP and non-TCP applications. The appliance also supports 512,000 simultaneous sessions.

Unisys’ new Workspace as a Service solutions, first introduced at EMC World, wrap together a comprehensive range of advisory and cloud-based services for desktop virtualization based EMC VSPEX reference architecture, VCE Vblocks, VMware, Citrix VDI and other virtualization architectures. It is designed to deliver consistent cloud, device, and application performance.

The infrastructure can be deployed as a private cloud in the client’s data center, managed by either Unisys or the client; as a hosted private cloud in a Unisys data center; or in a shared cloud environment.

Unisys Workspace as a Service solutions enable client organizations to define distinct personas for specific groups of users based on their job profiles. The client can then determine what type of support each persona requires and which functions can be offloaded from their devices into the virtualized cloud environment.