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QCT Collaborating with Intel and VMware to Deliver verified Intel® Select Solution & vSAN ReadyNode™

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nov. 13, 2017—Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), a global data center solution provider, has collaborated with Intel and VMware to introduce QxStor VMware Edition, an Intel Select Solution and vSAN ReadyNode™ at vForum 2017 in Beijing/Taiwan.  This latest addition to the growing lineup of QCT’s software defined data center (SDDC) solutions gives businesses the optimized performance that SDDCs require without the time and hassle required to fine-tune their stack.

QCT’s QxStor solution is built on the QuantaGrid D52B-1U server which is designed on the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable platform and adopts the latest Intel® Optane™ SSDs. This solution provides sufficient I/O throughput to ensure no scaling bottlenecks to support fast-growing business demands. The QxStor VMware Edition solution is verified and certified, having passed the requirements of both Intel® Select Solutions and VMware vSAN ReadyNode™ to accelerate time-to-value.

The following benefits come with the QCT QxStor VMware Edition as an Intel® Select Solution & vSAN ReadyNode^TM:

• Performance-optimization specifically for VMware vSAN
• Reduced time to evaluate, select, and purchase the necessary hardware components
• Minimized time required to deploy new infrastructures
• Optimized performance to a specific threshold across compute, storage, and network on a trusted Intel® architecture 

QCT also offers a wide range of flexible QxStor vSAN ReadyNode^TM SKUs, including all-flash and hybrid purpose built configurations to support various workloads.

QCT’s three optimized VMware validated QxStor vSAN ReadyNode^TM SKUs are as follows:

• IOPS Optimized SKU - a revolutionary 1U rackmount server with 10 front access All NVMe hot-pluggable drive bays that dramatically increases data storage IOPs.
• Cost/Capacity Optimized SKU - supports up to 96TB of raw capacity in a 1U server, providing both extreme storage density and computing power.
• Compute-Storage Optimized SKU – an exceptional Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) user experience with ease of management and high-availability in a 2U 4-Node hyper-converged infrastructure.

These solutions are ideal for companies building IaaS, Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) and/or those developing remote and branch offices (ROBO), business critical applications, testing development architectures and management infrastructures.

“Our ongoing relationship with VMware and Intel has produced a wealth of SDDC solutions that simplify the cloud journey for our customers of various sizes worldwide,” said Mike Yang, President of QCT. “With our latest QxStor VMware Edition vSAN ReadyNode qualified offerings, our customers can reap the rewards of this vision.  We are thrilled to bring these new optimized solutions to market with our partners at this event.”

Building off QCT’s previous VMware and Intel collaborations, including their QxVDI and QxStack powered by VMware Cloud Foundation. QCT continues to innovate easy ways to build and operate SDDCs via validated systems.  With a focus on great simplicity, faster time-to-value, enhanced security, and lower total cost of ownership, QCT is pioneering SDDC-based integration for enterprises and cloud service providers that support more virtual machines and offer more computing power compared to the servers of previous generations. Following this mantra, QCT will continue to increase its offerings to satisfy customers with diverse workloads and use cases.

General Information

• vForum Taiwan 2017, Nov 16 2017, QCT’s Booth No.18 at Taipei International Convention Center, Taipei

vForum China 2017, Oct 26 2017, QCT’s Booth No. G04 at Shangri-La's China World Hotel Beijing (北京中國大飯店), Beijing

For more details, please visit VMware.com

Additional Resources:

-QxStack powered by VMware Cloud Foundation

-QxVDI powered by VMware Cloud Foundation

-QxStor VMware Edition – vSAN ReadyNode ^TM

-Intel Select Solutions

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