CRN Network, February 13, 2012, 1230 hrs
EMC has introduced VFCache, a new server flash caching solution. Together, VFCache and EMC flash-enabled storage systems improve application performance by leveraging intelligent software and PCIe flash technology.
VFCache extends the protection benefits of EMC’s Symmetrix VMAX, Symmetrix VMAXe, VNX and VNXe flash-enabled storage arrays into the server, delivering advanced data services including high availability, integrity, reliability and disaster recovery as well.
Coming in the next year, EMC will add de-duplication technology to VFCache. Additional flash capacity and form factors will also be supported. VFCache will also more deeply integrate with EMC storage management technologies, and additional integration with FAST architecture.
EMC also plans an early customer access program for Project Thunder in the second quarter of 2012. Project Thunder, optimized for high-frequency, low-latency read/write workloads, will build upon the advanced PCIe technology delivered in VFCache to leverage the power of flash through a dedicated server networked flash-based appliance.
“EMC identified very early on that flash technology would change the industry forever, and became the first to bring flash to enterprise storage. With this announcement, EMC also becomes the first to implement PCIe flash in a way that ensures mission critical applications reach new levels of performance, at the right cost, and with the level of protection and intelligence that customers demand,” said Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Office, Information Infrastructure Products, EMC. |