EMC has introduced new foundational offerings designed to support and accelerate customers’ digital transformation initiatives and address the four major pillars of the modern data center – flash, scale-out, software-defined and cloud-enabled. New offerings include the new Native Hybrid Cloud™ (NHC™) platform, VCE® VxRack™ System 1000 with Neutrino™ Nodes, and major updates to DSSD™ D5™.

New technology-centric companies born in the digital era are leveraging cloud computing, modern software development techniques and an array of smart connected devices to enter and disrupt almost every industry, delivering radically improved consumer experiences. To respond, more traditional organizations must re-kindle innovation within their own IT teams and build out new modern data center architectures to support them. These architectures and infrastructure are very different from what resides in most IT environments today.

EMC World Day 2 News Highlights:

• The latest addition to its cloud solutions portfolio, Native Hybrid Cloud (NHC) is an engineered turnkey developer platform for cloud-native application development and deployment.
  
• VCE VxRack System 1000 with Neutrino Nodes is a software-defined hyper-converged rack-scale engineered system designed to provide a turnkey cloud-native IaaS experience. Using a VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes customers can deploy an enterprise-grade IaaS in just a few days with built-in automation as well as dynamically provision resources for the first time in less than one hour.
  
• The new ability to stripe two DSSD D5 systems together in a single rack to deliver 2X the IOPS, bandwidth and capacity, 1/3 the latency and a lower TCO than the fastest converged solution for Oracle databases in the market today. Also new today is VCE VxRack System with DSSD, a fully-engineered storage, networking and compute system that provides customers with a single pre-configured, optimized solution for their high-performance databases and data warehouses.
  

New Digital Business Transformation Survey Results

There is no doubt that the drive toward digital transformation is changing industries and business models. According to an EMC-commissioned survey conducted by Vanson Bourne:

• 52% of 4,000 business leaders surveyed across 16 countries say that as a result of digital technologies, they have experienced significant disruption in their industries
• 48% of the respondents say they don’t know what their industry will look like in three years’ time
• 62% of respondents say they have witnessed new competitive entrants into their industries as a result of digital initiatives, and
• 56% cite customer demand as a driving force behind the need to digitally transform

As external pressures continue to accelerate, to advance their digital business transformation:

• 73% of companies agree that a centralized technology strategy needs to be a priority, and
• 66% are planning to invest in IT infrastructure and digital skills leadership.