Boston, MA, 12/13/2013 (NYSEPOST) – EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) has finally launched its much-awaited XtremIO and the enthusiasm with which it has been welcomed with is on par with what the Isilon rollout had seen. The company is expecting XtremIO to be a dominant in the all-flash array market. IDC has projected that it will touch revenue of $1.2 billion by2015. This new array is already in very high demand. It has 10 Petabytes of effective de-duplicated capacity that has already been sold via EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)’s Directed Availability program that the company has announced in March 2013.
This platform allows for a much stronger competitive-response in comparison to Nimbus Data or Pure Storage when it is in the Channel. In addition to this, it opens up virtual desktop-infrastructure deals that did not have too much of a traction with the VNX-F array. These will now be able to reduce the capacity requirements by 50% via data dedupe/compression. It will allow EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) to hit the key storage-costs price points in a VDI dealю
EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) has commented that 70% of the XtremIO deals are a segment of a VDI project while the new markets and other opportunities are similar to what had been enable in Isilon, in scale-out NAS. The initial XtremIO rollout feedback from EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) resellers has been very positive and the new All Flash Array is finding traction with many new VDI-led projects. Alex Kurtz, the Sterne Agee analyst said that the fact that the XtremIO is priced at a premium, it might prevent wider cannibalization of the VMAX.
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EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) and its subsidiaries are involved in the development, delivery and support of the Information Technology industry’s range of information-infrastructure &virtual infrastructure technologies, services and solutions. EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC)’s Information Infrastructure business is made up of 3 segments: 1) Information Storage, 2) Information Intelligence and 3) RSA Information Security.
