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What is EMC VSPEX Proven Infrastructure?
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SPEX is the next generation of virtualised infrastructure solutions for the private cloud from EMC and its ecosystem of technology Alliance and you, an EMC Velocity Partner.
customers through a range of pre-validated or proven virtualised infrastructure solutions. VSPEX offers customers the choice/flexibility to pick and choose the right components for their infrastructure, built and delivered by partners of their choice. Because VSPEX solutions are tested and pre-validated, customers can deploy the solutions more rapidly and accelerate their journey to the cloud. What problems are being solved with VSPEX? EMC is reducing risk and deployment time for your customers who are deploying private cloud and virtualisation infrastructures. VSPEX is a complete solution that is pre-validated by EMC and delivered to customers by you, who best understands the specific customer’s needs. Many customers are looking to deploy virtual infrastructures but are not yet ready to standardise on a fully converged infrastructure. VSPEX offers customers a way to expedite time to value by working with you to deploy proven and pre-validated solutions while preserving the flexibility to pick the right components for their infrastructure. How is VSPEX different than Reference Architectures? VSPEX takes the customer experience of deploying Reference Architectures to a new level by offering pre-validated solutions that are delivered by partners and easy to consume by customers. VSPEX brings a very rich ecosystem of industry’s leading technology providers to deliver a broad portfolio of solutions for the customer. By enabling you with a full suite of go-to-market tools, VSPEX makes it effective and compelling for you to take to market.
VSPEX Proven Infrastructure brings together best of breed components in flexible, pre-validated, and easy to install configurations that deliver predictable performance. VSPEX takes the customer experience of deploying Reference Architectures to a new level by making them easy to consume by customers and delivered by trained and authorised channel partners. VSPEX Proven Infrastructure is a complete, virtualised infrastructure solution. Powered by technologies from an ecosystem of leading technology vendors like Brocade, Cisco, Citrix, Intel, Microsoft, and VMware, VSPEX enables customers to select the hypervisor, server, network, storage, and data protection technologies that best fits their existing IT environments. Because VSPEX solutions are pre-validated by EMC, customers don’t have to hassle with configuration, test, trouble-shooting, and/ or tuning. VSPEX solutions are proven– they deliver predictable performance, ultimately enable faster deployment, more simplicity, greater choice, higher efficiency, and lower risk. Why did EMC develop VSPEX? Working with you, EMC’s partners, and customers, and drawing upon EMC’s rich heritage in proven solutions and best practices, EMC identified an opportunity to provide significant value to
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