VMWare announced its EVO: RAIL for IT India

Dell, EMC and HP also announced the availability of their VMware EVO: RAIL based offerings

As IT organizations are being challenged to provide services faster than ever while reducing the complexity and costs of their environments. VMware announced the availability of VMware EVO: RAIL.

VMware EVO: RAIL is a hyper converged infrastructure appliance that helps IT organizations streamline the deployment and scale-out of software-defined IT infrastructure at the speed of business. It will dramatically simplify the delivery of software-defined infrastructure services while lowering operating expenses.

Also Dell, EMC and HP today announced the availability of their VM ware EVO: RAIL based offerings for IT India. NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems and Fujitsu have also partnered with VMware EVO: RAIL. The companies will make their respective appliance available overtime. The appliance will be offered by these partners’ channel as a single SKU covering hardware, software, and support and services costs, with single point-of-contact support being offered by the qualified EVO: RAIL partners.

Arun Parameswaran, managing director, VMware India, said, “VMware and its qualified EVO: RAIL partners are bringing the simplicity of consumer appliances to the world of enterprise infrastructure. It 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.”

Customers and partners of the company have been very excited about the immediate value VMware EVO: RAIL is offering.

“The Industry is moving towards adopting the right way to deploy IT infrastructure maintaining the right consumption economics.  A software centric architecture that integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources and ties them together using a Hyper Converged system. To meet the requirements for such solutions, you need a strong engineering background – in hardware, material sciences, and software – to offer the best solution.  This Hyper Converged infrastructure is also expected to scale appropriately as the demands increase, and hence the requirement of HyperScale. HP Converged System 200 is the platform where Hyper Converged Infrastructure is based on the HyperScale framework and thus, creating a market differentiator,” said Swastik Chakraborty, Senior Datacenter Interoperability Architect, HP Servers, APJ - DIA Team.