Press Release
October 09, 2014
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The first of five planned EMC Federation solutions, the new Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution provides a completely virtualized data center that is fully automated by software and delivered as a service.
The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution will greatly accelerate time to value with a fully engineered, validated and supported offering. The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution was jointly developed in the fully staffed and resourced EMC Federation Lab in Palo Alto, Calif. to automate hundreds of orchestration workflows and accelerate ease of deployment.
With a Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution, mission-critical applications run on infrastructure that delivers greater visibility, manageability, cost control and agility.
The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution includes a reference architecture, solution guides and solution-specific workflows engineered and validated in the Federation Lab.
It is built on top of these products from the Federation:
To enable mission critical infrastructure and applications to meet performance and availability expectations, the Federation j oint support teams have established a collaborative support model for service and support. A support call can be initiated with any of the Federation members; that Federation support team will assume primary responsibility for issue resolution and customer satisfaction, including escalation and coordination with additional Federation members.
The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution will also be made available through platinum solution providers in EMC's Business Partner Program.
Using best-of-breed technologies, the Federation members will deliver a series of solutions for the new IT agenda, accelerating customer time to value as global organizations redefine IT for the cloud and big data era.
David Floyer, Co-Founder and CTO, Wikibon
“The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution will help enterprise IT accelerate the strategic imperative of migration to a hybrid cloud while utilizing their existing investments. This will allow for improved costs, availability and flexibility to ensure enterprise IT can compete directly with cloud providers where it makes business and technical sense to deploy in-house, and at the same time enable seamless access to next-generation cloud applications, infrastructure and data resources.”
Bob Olwig, Vice President of Business Strategy and Innovation at World Wide Technology “World Wide Technology is a global leader of next-generation information technology services and solutions. As an award-winning systems integrator and supply chain solutions provider, WWT delivers an innovative and proven approach to how organizations explore, evaluate, architect and implement technology. The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution enables us to provide our customers with a quick and seamless path in redefining their IT. The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution is the foundation that empowers business transformation and helps us build next-gen IT infrastructure offerings for our clients."
Josh Kahn, Senior Vice President, Global Solutions, EMC Corporation
“The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution is the first-of-its kind and the ideal architecture for public, private and hybrid clouds enabling IT organizations to radically redefine IT and their business.”
Todd Paoletti, Vice President, Product Marketing, Pivotal
“The Federation Software-Defined Data Center Solution with enterprise PaaS provided by Pivotal CF enables companies to deliver disruptive, high value and next generation apps for big data, mobile, social and cloud innovation. Pivotal is proud to be an integral component of the Federation Solution.”
Ray O'Farrell, Corporate Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure R&D, VMware
“Through the software-defined data center, organizations can achieve greater security, efficiency, availability and faster service delivery, all while lowering costs. This Federation offering will enable organizations to quickly realize the benefits of a software-defined data center architecture.”
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