GEC NEWS WIREEMC Corporation revealed new products and support that optimize the protection of VMware workloads across the spectrum of VMware environments to enable protection everywhere.
The integration between EMC’s data protection portfolio and VMware software empowers vAdmins to provision, monitor and manage the protection of their virtual workloads through the standard VMware interface. This includes enhanced support for VMware Virtual SAN, VMware vSphere and expanded data protection options for VCE VxRail Appliances.
Beth Phalen, Senior VP and GM of Data Protection and Availability Solutions, EMC
“Businesses need data protection everywhere – and that’s as true with virtual machines and converged appliances as it is for traditional storage arrays. EMC’s portfolio approach to data protection, and deep integration with VMware, means that we’re able to offer solutions that can protect data wherever it is and empower our customers to manage their data protection through the native VMware management consoles. EMC’s investment and leadership in data protection for VMware environments is a true testament to EMC and VMware’s better together strategy.”
Yanbing Li, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware “Data protection has quickly become a mainstream requirement now that the majority of Virtual SAN customers are running business-critical applications. By integrating with VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering, RecoverPoint for VMs is a great disaster recovery solution, offering up to zero RPO with any point in time recovery via a highly resilient, no-single-point-of-failure architecture for the most advanced Virtual SAN topologies.”
