EMC: Native Hybrid Cloud (NHC)

EMC provided in the spring of 2016 addition to the portfolio of cloud solutions — Native Hybrid Cloud (NHC), platform for development and delivery of cloud applicaions. The integrated and optimized NHC platform allows to implement innovations and to reach new scales of their distribution. It helps IT specialists and groups of operational support it is closer to cooperate with developers, doing possible rapid development and applications launch, providing the necessary level of protection, management and transparency in IT infrastructure.

"In the conditions of the modern constantly changing digital economy, rapid application development and the reduced cycles of release of releases become regulation. The practician of DevOps, the operational model and the culture of communication of IT and developers using the principles of permanent integration and permanent delivery (CI/CD) and also more integrated the companies can provide competitive advantage. However transition to DevOps can be very difficult if you have for this purpose no respective platform of development and tools. And for these purposes cloud platforms are created — noted in EMC. — Here we mean new architecture of software which allows to realize the dynamic cloud principles of application development, to perform transition from monolithic application stacks to microservices and also to implement container abstractions of infrastructure".

According to developers, Native Hybrid Cloud will help corporations to pass to DevOps, having received Wednesday which "just works". The components which are optimum working together are a part of the platform.

So, Native Hybrid Cloud uses Pivotal Cloud Foundry — the platform for cloud applicaions. Pivotal Cloud Foundry provides means of increase in productivity of developments, achievements of operational efficiency and also providing the corporate level of security, scalability, high availability and operational control — all this allows to accelerate entry into the market of software solutions of our customers.

Developers can quicker create, create, unroll and scale cloud applicaions due to integration of NHC IaaS with Pivotal Cloud Foundry. The applications created through Pivotal Cloud Foundry differ in portability and can be started in any "cloud" — private or public.

At the same time, Native Hybrid Cloud offers developers broad tool kit for deployment, scaling and managements of lifecycle of applications, at the same time providing transparency, control and the overview of financial aspects of work. All this becomes possible due to connection of services of protocols, monitoring, the reporting, support, performance control of applications, analytics of Big Data, management and automation through open API. For those companies which need analysis results in real time NHC offers a full range of tools for a research of data which allows to implement analytics of Big Data and to take more valuable information, noted in the company.

NHC also provides the flexible choice for start of platforms of IaaS — cloud and on the physical equipment. Native Hybrid Cloud is founded on VCE VxRack System 1000 — hyper convergent infrastructure like rack-scale which gives essentially new opportunities of IaaS for development, deployment and operation of applications.

According to EMC, the VxRack system allows customers to use a stack of cloud applicaions at the choice: VMware vSphere with Flex Nodes for those who want to increase quality of work of the familiar systems and also an option based on OpenStack for those who want to use OpenStack ecosystem with the Neutrino nodes. In the near future the VMware Photon platform is the cloud infrastructure solution optimized for containers and modern applications — it will also be supported on Neutrino Nodes together with data processing options, including Apache Hadoop ecosystem.

VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes gives opportunities of the simplified management for the rack-scale systems and management tools for cloud application stacks of IaaS, simplifying processes of "the second day" and scaling of infrastructure, explained in the company.

For those customers who need the option IaaS without physical medium EMC Native Hybrid Cloud offers instant support of public services, including: Virtustream Enterprise Cloud, VMware vCloud Air, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

For the customers who are initially selecting the IaaS system for modern cloud applicaions, VxRack System with Neutrino Nodes and Flex Nodes will help to accelerate selection of resources using open technologies so this process, by estimates of EMC, takes less than an hour.

Thanks to a full support of EMC the Native Hybrid Cloud platform represents a uniform product which can be implemented for several days. It allows corporations to cut down the expenses, time expenditure, excess difficulties and uncertainty connected with creation, deployment and support of cloud solutions at the same time creating conditions for the shift of mentality of people to practicians of DevOps.

In the whole Native Hybrid Cloud allows to increase dynamism of business and accelerates innovations thanks to the platform of engineering which combines elastic infrastructure, possibilities of selfrecovery, automatic creation of the environment for applications launch and also broader services for developers and IT support, claim in the company.

According to developers, among key features of NHC: implementation of a cloud platform of development and infrastructure services in only two days — based on Pivotal Cloud Foundry integrated with platforms of IaaS based on EMC and VMware and also with a possibility of embedding on Wednesday of the customer; fast entry into the market — rapid application development — from the idea to a ready-made product — becomes possible due to extensive use of services and tools for developers and IT support; the optimized DevOps joint work mechanisms — new opportunities of partnership of DevOps became possible due to existence of means of self-service for developers who also allow to retain to IT department control and understanding of processes; performance improvement of work of developers (they can independently select resources for creation of cloud applicaions) — the simplified processes and the whole ecosystem of tools simplify creation, deployment and management of cloud applicaions; support on one call — EMC provides uniform telephone support for all solution; disposal of difficulties — the Native Hybrid Cloud platform was developed and also is supported and serviced as single solution (in process of development of a program ecosystem the stack of Native Hybrid Cloud continues to be updated and be supported as a single platform).