VMware (CEO Raghu Raghuram), a global leader in enterprise software, has joined hands with Samsung Electronics to implement optimal storage virtualization and big data platform performance.

VMware announced on the 23rd that it will improve the performance and efficiency of its storage virtualization system through Samsung Electronics' high-performance SSD and reduce carbon emissions by lowering the power consumption of its big data platform system through a newly developed reference architecture.

VMware held VMware Explore 2023 in Las Vegas, USA from the 21st to the 24th (local time), and announced updates and cases of multi-cloud solutions, including ways to support AI innovation in enterprises, enterprise apps, cloud architecture, infrastructure, hybrid work tools, networking, and security.

Samsung Electronics, which participated in the event, directly disclosed cases of technical collaboration with VMware through exhibition and presentation sessions.

VMware vSAN is enterprise-grade storage virtualization software that provides the easiest path to hyper-converged infrastructure and multi-cloud. In particular, the Express Storage Architecture (ESA) applied to vSAN 8, which was newly updated last year, improves the performance, storage efficiency, data protection, and management efficiency of vSAN running on the latest storage devices, and provides particularly high performance to NVMe-based TLC flash devices.

Samsung Electronics' PM1743 SSD, a high-performance PCIe 5.0-based SSD featuring the latest memory technology, is optimized for ESA configurations that integrate layers into a single-tier structure, maximizing the benefits of vSAN. To achieve this, Samsung Electronics verified the PM1743's compatibility with VMware solutions and achieved All Flash Certification. Based on this certification, VMware plans to help customers optimize the performance and efficiency of their next-generation storage devices, reducing complexity and costs.

Meanwhile, VMware and Samsung Electronics are also collaborating in the big data field.

VMware Greenplum is an open-source, massively parallel data processing analytics platform that enables next-generation data warehousing and large-scale analytics on petabyte-scale datasets, both on-premises and in the cloud. It boasts superior big data analytics query performance and tight integration with leading analytics libraries and software stacks, making it ideal for machine learning and advanced data science projects.

Samsung Electronics and VMware have been collaborating on reference designs to improve performance and cost efficiency when utilizing Samsung Electronics' Gen5 SSDs and VMware's big data platform, Greenplum. By leveraging Greenplum's innovative architecture, which offers fast performance and flexible capacity expansion, together with Samsung Electronics' latest Gen5 NVMe SSD, the limits of data throughput, processing speed, and multimodal analysis scope can be redefined.