US Software company VMware Inc launched EVO:RAIL, a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to help IT organisations streamline the deployment and scale-out of software-defined IT infrastructure, said a company statement.
NYSE listed company claimed that EVO:RAIL would dramatically simplify the delivery of software-defined infrastructure services while lowering operating expenses and enable IT to produce virtual machines within minutes of powering on the appliance, thereby responding faster to business demands, simplifying infrastructure administration and reducing operating costs.
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Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems and NetApp have partnered with VMware for EVO:RAIL and will make their respective appliances available over time, while Dell, EMC and HP announced the availability of their EVO:RAIL based offerings for India, company informed.
“VMware EVO:RAIL is a new building block for software-defined data center environments that takes the guesswork out of building, deploying, scaling and managing software-defined infrastructure services,” said Arun Parameswaran, managing director, VMware India.
According to an IDC report commissioned by VMware titled “Empowering Organizations in a Software Defined World,” an estimated US$4 billion is expected to be saved between 2014 and 2020 with a software defined approach to managing IT in India.
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