December 9, 2008
Dell, EMC Extend and Expand Strategic Alliance
Dell and EMC today announced a multi-year extension of their global alliance through 2013. In addition to extending the partnership, Dell and EMC will add the EMC Celerra NX4 storage system to the portfolio of Dell | EMC networked storage systems.
Highlights of Dell and EMC’s collaboration in 2008 include:
- The new lineup of Dell | EMC CX4 networked storage systems introduced in August are designed to incorporate the latest technologies in drives, connectivity, processing power, thin provisioning and security. It is the first midrange storage array in the market to support state-of-the-art solid state disks (SSDs).
- The release in September of a new scalable data warehousing solution as part of EMC and Dell’s collaboration on the Oracle Optimized Warehouse initiative.
- In January, Dell introduced the Dell AX4-5 as a cost effective mid-range array that can scale up to 60 drives and support advanced features like snapshot and replication.
- Last month, the two companies collaborated in the area of data de-duplication, one of the fastest growing segments within the storage market. Dell and EMC are working together to help customers reduce backup costs and improve efficiency with target based de-duplication technologies.
December 4, 2008
Microsoft and EMC's RSA Security Division Team Up to Help Customers Secure Sensitive Data
Building on a long-standing, multi-faceted alliance, EMC and Microsoft Corp. today announced they have expanded their technology partnership to help companies better protect sensitive information and share it in a more secure manner. The companies will be working together with a built-in "systems" approach that helps protect information throughout the infrastructure based on content, context and identity. The partnership will take advantage of resources and technology from Microsoft and RSA, The Security Division of EMC. Microsoft will build the RSA® Data Loss Prevention (DLP) classification technology into the Microsoft platform and future information protection products. The resulting collaboration is designed to enable organizations to centrally define information security policy, automatically identify and classify sensitive data virtually anywhere in the infrastructure, and use a range of controls to protect data at the endpoints, network, and data center. Additionally, in the near term RSA's DLP Suite 6.5 will be engineered to integrate tightly with Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management Services (RMS) within Windows Server 2008.
October 24, 2008
EMC Accelerates Innovation with Employees around the World
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, hosted its second annual Innovation Conference which brought together more than 1,000 EMC employees and technical development teams from around the globe for a physical and virtual symposium focused on EMC’s commitment to innovation and technology leadership. The event also featured an Innovation Showcase of 30 finalist ideas that were evaluated by participants and a panel of technical judges who recognized and awarded five winners.
The finalist ideas for the 2008 EMC Innovation Showcase covered a broad range of business, process and technology categories including cloud computing, collaboration and knowledge management as well as information infrastructure resource management.
July 24, 2008
EMC’s Mozy Online Backup Service Doubles Its Business Customer Base
Mozy, Inc., an EMC Company and the leader in online backup for businesses and consumers, today announced that it has doubled the size of its enterprise and small to medium-size business customer base during the first half of 2008. Mozy has more than 750,000 users and 20,000 business customers backing up 7.6 billion files to its 10-petabyte storage system. In addition, Mozy has announced that Thrive Networks, Inc., a subsidiary of Staples, has signed a contract with Mozy to provide online backup to its customers. This service will also be offered to Staples’ customers as Staples Network Services by Thrive.
July 23, 2008
EMC Posts Record Second-Quarter Financial Results; Achieves 18% Year-Over-Year Revenue Growth
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced record second-quarter revenue results and its 20th consecutive quarter of double-digit year-over-year revenue growth. The company achieved balanced execution with double-digit revenue growth in systems, software and services and across all of its major business segments and geographies. EMC’s total consolidated revenue for the second quarter of 2008 was $3.67 billion, an increase of 18% over the $3.12 billion reported for the second quarter of 2007.Second-quarter GAAP net income was $377.5 million or $0.18 per diluted share. Non-GAAP second-quarter net income, which excludes stock-based compensation and intangible amortization, was $511.7 million or $0.24 per diluted share, 20% higher than the non-GAAP earnings per diluted share of $0.20 for the year-ago period.
June 16, 2008
EMC Helps Oracle Customers Drive Cost Efficiency and Simplify Deployment
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced new EMC Proven Solutions and reference configurations that help customers more efficiently and cost effectively deploy an EMC information infrastructure in Oracle transaction processing and data warehousing environments. Customers can more easily map the most appropriate storage platform to the Oracle use case at the lowest cost by taking advantage of EMC’s tiered storage. The combination of industry-leading EMC and Oracle technologies, joint testing and new customer-focused technical documentation speeds and simplifies deployments of Oracle on EMC network storage.
June 4, 2008
CSC and EMC to Collaborate on Enterprise Information Infrastructure Solutions
CSC and EMC Corporation today announced that they intend to collaborate on delivering new offerings around large-scale information infrastructures and next-generation data center operations to help their joint customers get more value for their business information. The two companies aim to combine systems engineering, design and client solution-development expertise to manage global, information-based IT infrastructures that lower clients’ total operating costs while increasing availability, scalability and security of their data center systems. The focus of the collaboration will be on developing new IT solutions and services that address key areas of information management including the automation of data center operations, information protection, virtualization and compliance.
June 2, 2008
EMC Receives European Commission Approval for Acquisition of Iomega
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it received approval by the European Commission for the acquisition of Iomega Corporation (NYSE:IOM). The European Commission approved the transaction without conditions. This satisfies the condition to the tender offer related to European Commission regulatory approval and is the last regulatory approval that is a condition to the tender offer. As previously announced, the tender offer is scheduled to expire on Friday, June 6, 2008 at 5:00 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time, unless the tender offer is further extended.
May 6, 2008
EMC Establishes Manufacturing and R&D Presence in Brazil
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that with the support of Brazil’s Ministry of Science and Technology, it has established a manufacturing presence in Brazil with the Brazilian operations of Celestica, a global provider of innovative electronics manufacturing services. Initial manufacturing efforts will focus on EMC’s industry-leading CLARiiON® family of networked storage systems. This new endeavor will allow EMC to deliver systems to Brazilian customers faster and at a lower cost.
EMC will also initiate its new R&D effort at The Eldorado Research Institute in Campinas, Brazil. This partnership will allow EMC to leverage Brazil’s abundance of skilled software development engineers to develop products that have significant local and global market demand. The work will initially concentrate on Resource Management and Open Source Software.
April 8, 2008
EMC Announces New Information-Centric Security Consulting Services to Help Enterprises Mitigate Risk and Accelerate Business Objectives
EMC today announced five new information-centric security consulting services leveraging solutions from RSA, The Security Division of EMC. These new consulting services are designed to provide customers with the business perspective, security expertise, and measurable results needed to accelerate the adoption of sound information risk management strategies. These new consulting services are also complemented by a wide range of design and implementation services for RSA technology. Information-centric security consulting services are delivered by a growing security practice within EMC Consulting and leverage RSA's deep security expertise and strong technology solutions. They help organizations align information risk management goals to business objectives, protect information assets, and ease the burden of regulatory compliance. The result is a highly effective information-centric security infrastructure that responds quickly to business changes with optimized policies, procedures, metrics, and controls.
March 10, 2008
EMC Acquires Leading IT Service Management (ITSM) Software Provider, Infra
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has acquired privately-held Infra Corporation Pty Limited – a market-leading provider of IT Service Management (ITSM) software. This acquisition further solidifies EMC’s “Closed Loop Service Orchestration” strategy, designed to automate data center operations and return visibility and control to IT management. The acquisition is not expected to have a material impact on revenues or EPS for 2008. Infra provides a Web-based, ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library)-verified solution that automates IT Service Management processes in enterprise organizations. Infra’s service desk, with its ability to manage the full lifecycle of IT services, complements EMC’s automated discovery, rich analytics, native dependency mapping and model-based approach – better enabling customers to manage service delivery end-to-end.
November 18, 2008
EMC Helps Customers Meet New Data Protection Requirements, Reduce Cost and Mitigate Risk
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the newest versions of the industry's broadest portfolio of data protection software. These new updates are part of integrated solutions that meet specific data protection requirements for analysis and reporting, backup for Microsoft and VMware virtual environments, data de-duplication and replication, helping customers slow data growth, reduce capacity and lower total cost of operations. Today's announcement reinforces EMC's leadership position in delivering disk-based backup and archiving solutions to a wide customer base (see separate announcement).
The products with new and expanded capabilities include:
- EMC Data Protection Advisor– The next-generation of EMC Backup Advisor, providing proactive analysis and reporting software that helps users make the right decisions at the right cost, faster. Now new features include support for VMware and EMC Celerra® unified storage systems, in addition to expanded support of EMC Avamar®, and Data Domain platforms.
- EMC NetWorker® – New capabilities in EMC's enterprise backup and recovery software that provides cost-effective, comprehensive protection include being the first backup application to support Microsoft Hyper-V, strengthened management of VMware Infrastructure, and expanded support for EMC software and storage arrays, including EMC RecoverPoint, EMC HomeBase and EMC Symmetrix® TimeFinder®.
- EMC Avamar– The latest version of EMC's backup and recovery software featuring source-based data de-duplication that reduces storage and bandwidth requirements, provides a host of new capabilities that enhance security, offer additional capacity reporting, and simplify and streamline management.
- EMC RecoverPoint– EMC's solution for EMC and non-EMC storage arrays delivers greater efficiencies and protection options with new continuous data protection (CDP) capabilities for advanced replication configurations, support for VMware Site Recovery Manager, Microsoft cluster integration to improve application availability, and virtual provisioning support for EMC CLARiiON® CX4 networked storage systems.
November 10, 2008
EMC Delivers Policy-Based Information Management Solution For Building Cloud Storage Infrastructures
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced its first cloud infrastructure offering, EMC® Atmos™ (codenamed Maui). EMC Atmos is the first multi-petabyte information management solution designed to help customers automatically manage and optimize the distribution of rich, unstructured information across global, cloud storage environments. Available today, EMC Atmos enables Web 2.0 and Internet providers, telecommunications, media and entertainment companies to securely build and deliver cloud-based information-centric services and applications at massive scale by providing the capabilities of centralized management and automated placement of information globally. Content-rich Web 2.0 applications such as video and photo sharing services combined with the growth of user-generated content on the Web is creating billions of new objects in the form of documents, videos, digital images and music. This combination of massive growth, new information types, and the need to serve hundreds of locations and millions of users around the world has led to new market requirements for information management at a global scale. These market requirements have led to the rise of cloud optimized storage (COS), a term used to describe current and future global-scale information management architectures.
October 15, 2008
New Iomega Storcenter ix2 Brings Leading EMC Network Storage Technologies to Home and Small Business Users
Iomega, an EMC company and a global leader in data protection, today announced the worldwide availability of the new Iomega® StorCenter™ ix2, the most advanced and easy-to-use network storage appliance for small businesses and the home. With just four mouse clicks, users can configure up to two terabytes of storage and advanced information management, protection and sharing software that can be connected to multiple devices, including wirelessly with Bluetooth, to manage their ever-increasing digital world.With a footprint smaller than a large dictionary and starting at just $299.99, the 1TB* and 2TB StorCenter ix2 provides centralized storage to users searching for the easiest and most technologically advanced way to share, secure and protect their most important data – including photos, mp3 files, videos and financial records. The ix2 boosts small office productivity by making data accessible yet secure over a local network. In the home setting, the ix2 allows family members of all ages to effortlessly enjoy their pictures, videos, music and other multimedia files from personal computers as well as all kinds of compatible consumer electronics and home entertainment products.
October 13, 2008
EMC Introduces its First Switch for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today introduced the EMC® Connectrix® NEX-5020, its first Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) switch and the first to be offered by a storage provider. The newest addition to EMC’s family of switches and directors uses the emerging FCoE standard to transfer data between physical and virtual servers and storage systems using the highly reliable Fibre Channel protocol over high speed, lossless 10 Gb/s Ethernet networks.
A network that consolidates data and storage area networking (SAN) on the same wire helps to simplify server, network and storage infrastructures and can lower costs and protect existing technology investments without sacrificing performance, security or reliability. Based on the Cisco Nexus 5000 Series Switches for data centers, the Connectrix NEX-5020 provides line-rate, low-latency, lossless 10 Gb/s Ethernet switching for network connectivity. It is designed to meet the ever-increasing I/O (input/output) demands of multi-core processors, VMware Infrastructure and other virtualized server and SAN environments. FCoE can help simplify server and network infrastructure by reducing the number of cables and adapters required for network connectivity, which in turn reduces power consumption and overall data center costs. It also enables additional servers to be attached to the SAN infrastructure and take advantage of the capabilities of EMC’s industry leading networked storage systems.
September 10, 2008
EMC, IBM and Microsoft Jointly Create First Web Services Interface Specification for Greater Interoperability of Enterprise Content Management Systems
EMC Corporation, IBM and Microsoft today announced a jointly developed specification which uses Web Services and Web 2.0 interfaces to enable applications to interoperate with multiple Enterprise Content Management (ECM) repositories by different vendors. The companies intend to submit the Content Management Interoperability Services specification to OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) for advancement through its rigorous standards development process. The ultimate goal of CMIS is to dramatically reduce the IT burden around multi-vendor, multi-repository content management environments. Currently, customers must spend valuable time and money to create and maintain custom integration code and one-off integrations to get different ECM systems within their organizations to "talk" to one another. The specification will also benefit independent software vendors (ISVs) by enabling them to create specialized applications that are capable of running over a variety of content management systems. Working together since late 2006, the three companies were joined in the creation of the CMIS draft specification by other leading software providers including: Alfresco Software, OpenText, Oracle and SAP. A final gathering of all seven companies was recently held to validate interoperability of the specification before submission to OASIS.
September 3 ,2008
EMC and Lenovo Launch Unlimited Online Data Backup Service for Small Business Professionals
EMC the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, and Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY), one of the world's largest makers of personal computers, today announced a global partnership to provide an unlimited online data backup service specifically designed for the small business professional. The new service is available on all new Lenovo ThinkPad SL series notebooks and is powered by EMC® MozyTM, the industry-leading online data backup service for consumers and businesses.
August 26, 2008
EMC Introduces New Entry-Level Celerra NX4 Unified Storage System
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today unveiled the EMC® Celerra® NX4, the new entry point to the industry-leading EMC Celerra series of unified storage systems. With a flexible design enabling it to be deployed in NAS (network attached storage), iSCSI and Fibre Channel SAN (storage area network) environments, and offering advanced functionality at no extra charge, the Celerra NX4 is the most cost-effective entry-level unified storage platform available on the market today.
August 5, 2008
EMC Introduces New EMC CLARiiON CX4 Series with Next Generation Architecture
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today unveiled the new EMC® CLARiiON® CX4 Series of midrange storage systems. With a new architecture specifically optimized for VMware and other virtual server environments and designed to incorporate the latest technologies in drives, connectivity, processing power, thin provisioning and security, EMC is making it easier than ever to cost-effectively consolidate and manage information using the least amount of energy.
The CLARiiON CX4 Series is the latest generation of the market-leading CLARiiON family of networked storage systems, with more than 300,000 systems installed and a midrange storage leading benchmark of "Five 9's" of availability—99.999 percent uptime. With data growing at nearly 60 percent annually and information technology managers facing increased energy costs and tighter budgets, the new CLARiiON CX4 Series has a multitude of new features built-in that are ideal for virtual server environments—including VMware infrastructure—use less energy, improve storage utilization, performance and management and protect the overall storage investment.
June 17,2008
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, Unveils New Advancements to The RSA® Data Security System
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, today unveiled new capabilities in the RSA® Data Security System’s encryption and key management suite which are designed to secure sensitive data in file systems. The RSA File Security Manager is a turnkey offering focused on transparent encryption and access control of sensitive data in files and folders on Windows® operating systems and Linux® servers.
May 19, 2008
New EMC Backup Offerings Control Data Growth and Increase Efficiency Using Latest Technologies
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today unveiled a number of new backup offerings that help ease the burden that data centers are facing in dealing with the ever expanding digital universe. These new solutions, introduced to thousands of attendees at EMC® World, leverage the latest technologies including data de-duplication, disk drive spin down and low-power disk drives, and continue to help dramatically lower the cost of disk-based backup versus tape. EMC offers the industry’s broadest set of hardware, software, and services that meet the world’s digital backup, recovery and archiving needs, from individual consumers to the world’s largest data centers.
May 5,2008
EMC Unveils Next-Generation Platform for Automated Network Change and Configuration Management
EMC, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today unveiled its newest platform for next-generation automated network change and configuration management (NCCM) – EMC VoyenceControl 4.0. Providing a model-based approach to configuration management, the solution further reinforces EMC's closed-loop service orchestration strategy for data center automation and offers tight integration with EMC's market-leading resource management suite of software, including EMC Smarts.VoyenceControl 4.0 delivers industry-leading return on investment by enabling enterprises and managed service providers to ensure the operational efficiency, compliance, security, and availability of their networks. Core to Version 4.0 is the solution's new modeling, reporting, compliance and multi-configuration management capabilities — addressing key management challenges posed by the complexity of today's network device designs and configurations.
April 7,2008
EMC Unveils New Solution Aimed at Dramatically Advancing IT and Security Operations
EMC, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced the availability of a new integrated solution aimed at bridging the IT and security operations functions in support of improved compliance, risk management and cost control. The solution is based on EMC’s Voyence®Control product for Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) and the RSA enVision® product for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM).For the IT operations professional, this solution is designed to provide the means to define and enforce configuration security standards and to automatically conduct compliance tests on a regular basis. Successfully automating these policies along with standardized network configuration management ensures data is available and secure would eliminate business risk from non-compliant devices. This would result in fewer service outages and reduced costs associated with Service Level Agreement (SLA) penalties and trouble ticket processing.
March 19, 2008
EMC Introduces High Performance Connectrix DCX Backbone for Data Center Fabrics
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today introduced the EMC® Connectrix® ED-DCX-B, the industry’s first 8 Gb/s (gigabit-per-second) Fibre Channel director. With 8 Gb/s line rates – double that of existing directors – and four times the aggregate bandwidth, the newest member of the Connectrix family enables large-scale consolidation of virtual and physical servers and storage pools, multi-protocol integration, and simplified management that can dramatically reduce operational and capital costs. Based on OEM technology from Brocade, the Connectrix ED-DCX-B combines unprecedented scalability and bandwidth with leading innovations in power, energy efficiency and port density. The Brocade DCX is a new class of network infrastructure and serves as the core platform for Data Center Fabric (DCF) architectures. The DCF architecture encompasses multiple storage protocols between applications and storage, connects virtual server and storage pools, supports networking over extended distances, and provides mainframe connectivity. The DCX will be a platform for future networking capabilities, providing 8 Gb/s Fibre Channel services at the core of the data center as well as additional specialized fabric and data center application services.
February 25, 2008
EMC Simplifies Continuous Data Protection and Disaster Recovery
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced groundbreaking advances in its heterogeneous data protection software family for local and remote replication, EMC® RecoverPoint. EMC RecoverPoint provides customers with the ability to quickly and consistently recover data with minimal business disruption in the event of a disaster, corruption or other outage. The solution attained commercial success in 2007, achieving triple digit revenue growth, year over year, with close to 400 customers leveraging the solution.
EMC RecoverPoint contains key new features for customers in version 3.0 that improve data protection investments, installations and management. Now, EMC RecoverPoint can protect and replicate the same data in local and remote-site combinations for operational and disaster recovery to maximize protection and minimize technology investments. Also, EMC has added unique RecoverPoint functionality and integration with EMC CLARiiON® CX3 networked storage systems that simplify RecoverPoint deployments, and broaden support for host operating systems and VMware® environments.
