VMware Unveils EVO

RAIL -- The Fastest Way to Build and Deploy a Software-Defined Data Center - Seite 3

What Early Adopter Program Participants Have to Say

• "My team's mandate in the State of Michigan is provide direct physical critical infrastructure support, around the clock to State employees and facilities. By leveraging this technology we believe it can make us more nimble and also raise us to a whole new level of freedom from the traditional, support intensive architecture. We believe that this bold new technology will put us well on our way to providing the State of Michigan with the most flexible, affordable, and sustainable centralized control environment available today." - Steven M. Sebastian, Central Control Supervisor, Department of Technology Management and Budget (DTMB)
  
  
• "With more than 35,000 students and 5,000 staff members, Oakland Unified School District's IT needs require the ability to rapidly scale to meet new curriculum and organizational demands. The ability for our infrastructure to scale and meet our application needs is critical. VMware EVO: RAIL will help us deliver new levels of responsiveness to our students and the staff. What really resonates with our team is how fast and easy VMware EVO: RAIL is to install and begin creating virtual machines." - John Krull, Information Technology Officer, Oakland Unified School District, Technology Services
  
  
• "We currently have over 40,000 VMware virtual machines running at Rackspace. We were very pleased with the results we experienced in VMware's Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Appliance Early Adopter Program. VMware EVO: RAIL opens up a new and exciting opportunity to serve our customers." - Pranav Parekh, Product Manager, Managed Virtualization, Rackspace
  
  

Technology Preview: EVO: RACK
Today at VMworld 2014, VMware also revealed a new technology preview of VMware EVO: RACK™, a hyper-converged infrastructure project. The technology in EVO: RACK is designed to dramatically simplify how companies buy, deploy, and operate software-defined data centers helping enterprises rapidly provision applications and services at data center scale. VMware EVO: RACK will be built to run on a range of pre-integrated hardware configurations ranging from Open Compute Project-based hardware designs to industry-standard OEM servers and converged infrastructure.