In partnership with Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, HP and NetApp, VMware EVO:RAIL will be offered through these partners’ channels as a single SKU (item) covering hardware, software, and support and services costs, with single point-of-contact support by these Qualified EVO:RAIL Partners.
Findings from a survey* conducted by VMware in March 2015 amongst CIOs from the ASEAN region revealed that 71% of CIOs acknowledged ASEAN’s importance as a contributor to global revenues by 2017, with one in four indicated that opportunities with the coming of the ASEAN Economic Community was a key reason.
Findings from a survey* conducted by VMware in March 2015 amongst CIOs from the ASEAN region revealed that 71% of CIOs acknowledged ASEAN’s importance as a contributor to global revenues by 2017, with one in four indicated that opportunities with the coming of the ASEAN Economic Community was a key reason.
The findings also showed that 84% indicated the transformation to a software-defined enterprise is important for their organisations. The increased cloud adoption** in markets like Thailand and Vietnam, coupled with growing mobile penetration*** of over 120% across the region, puts added pressure on businesses to provide speed, flexibility and a secure way of managing IT.
VMware EVO:RAIL solutions help businesses in the region move towards the software-defined enterprise by helping to simplify the delivery of software-defined infrastructure services. Designed as a pre-integrated and pre-tested complete VMware software stack, VMware EVO:RAIL will 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.
“With high mobility and increasing sophistication in the outlook and adoption of technology such as cloud, organisations in the ASEAN Economic Community are well-poised to reap the benefits of cost savings, automation and operational efficiencies from a software-defined approach to IT,” said Ron Goh, VP and GM, ASEAN of VMware.
“With high mobility and increasing sophistication in the outlook and adoption of technology such as cloud, organisations in the ASEAN Economic Community are well-poised to reap the benefits of cost savings, automation and operational efficiencies from a software-defined approach to IT,” said Ron Goh, VP and GM, ASEAN of VMware.
"VMware EVO:RAIL is a new building block for software-defined data centre environments that takes the guesswork out of building, deploying, scaling and managing software-defined infrastructure services. Our customers and partners in ASEAN have been very excited about the immediate value that VMware EVO:RAIL offers them.”
VMware EVO:RAIL is aimed at use cases in the mid-market and enterprise segments, and includes VMware vSphere, VMware Virtual SAN, VMware vRealize Log Insight, and the new EVO:RAIL engine – all integrated with hardware from customers’ preferred Qualified EVO:RAIL Partner.
VMware EVO:RAIL is aimed at use cases in the mid-market and enterprise segments, and includes VMware vSphere, VMware Virtual SAN, VMware vRealize Log Insight, and the new EVO:RAIL engine – all integrated with hardware from customers’ preferred Qualified EVO:RAIL Partner.
“In
the new world of hyper-convergence, infrastructure matters more than
ever,” said Sascha Haake, director and general manager, Converged Data
Center Infrastructure, Enterprise
Group, HP Asia-Pacific and Japan. “The HP Converged System 200-HC EVO:RAIL
provides a complete, VMware-centric software-defined system that
delivers the business agility and operational excellence required for
organisations to quickly adapt to market conditions
and customer needs.”
“The collaboration between Dell and VMware continues to deliver innovative, industry-leading products and service solutions designed to help customers increase productivity and run their business more effectively,” said Tertius Bezuidenhout, Executive Director, Enterprise Solutions and Alliances, Dell Asia Pacific and Japan.
“With the introduction of the Dell Engineered Solutions for VMware EVO: RAIL, we are delivering faster time-to-value, elasticity and greater ease-of-use with for customers’ virtual infrastructure, general-purpose workloads, VDI and private cloud deployments, helping them optimise infrastructure and application workload delivery."
“We
have recently introduced the EMC VSPEX BLUE hyper-converged
infrastructure appliance that delivers compute, storage, networking and
management
powered by VMware EVO:RAIL and EMC software. The VSPEX BLUE appliance
represents a strategic addition to EMC’s existing highly successful
converged infrastructure portfolio," said Dmitri Chen, Chief
Operating Officer, APJ and Vice President of Specialty Sales, EMC
Corporation.
“Hitachi
Data Systems is delighted to offer Hitachi Unified Compute Platform
1000 for VMware EVO:RAIL in the ASEAN region. This product combines
the trusted and proven technologies of HDS with VMware’s flexible and
dynamic technologies to enable the software-defined data centre. With
EVO:RAIL, HDS customers will have a full range of converged solutions
that will be suitable for any workload, all managed
as one using Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Director infrastructure
automation software,” said Ravi Rajendran, Vice President and General
Manager, ASEAN and India, Hitachi Data Systems.
“NetApp
and VMware have a long history of innovation and customer success. As
an extension of this relationship, we announced a new hyper-converged
infrastructure solution
powered by VMware EVO: RAIL and the NetApp Data ONTAP storage
operating system enabling organisations to accelerate their
software-defined data centre deployments. NetApp delivers proven
efficiencies for both SAN and NAS environments with an integrated
solution that offers simple, cost-effective scaling and enterprise
performance. Our approach enables customers to build an enterprise-wide
data fabric,” said Dan Neault, Senior Vice President, Data Center
Solutions Group, NetApp.
VMware EVO:RAIL will simplify appliance deployment, configuration as well as on-going management, patching and upgrading of the software. The appliance is ideally suited for use cases such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) as well as remote office/branch office for industries including financial services, government, healthcare, higher education, insurance, oil and gas, and retail. The appliance can co-exist with customers' existing VMware vSphere environments as well as serve as an on-ramp to VMware vCloud Air.
*VMware CIO survey 2015. The
survey was conducted with over 20 CIOs from the ASEAN region that
participated at the CIO ASEAN Leaders Summit in Bali, Indonesia on 16 April
2015. The participants included CIOs across various industries ranging
from banking and finance, public sector, telecommunications, healthcare
and more.
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