Tuesday September 14, 9:06 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
Mail.com Builds Large-Scale EMC Enterprise Storage Network to Manage
Rapid Growth
E- mail Leader Moves Information Infrastructure to EMC Enterprise Storage Network for Increased Information Control and
Availability
HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 1999-- EMC Corporation, the world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems, software and
services, today announced that Mail.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:MAIL - news), a leading Internet messaging provider, is building a large-scale, cutting-edge EMC
Enterprise Storage Network (ESN) that will enable it to manage its rapid growth, provide streamlined management of expanding information assets, and deliver
exceptional Web site availability and performance.
Charles Walden, Mail.com's Executive Vice President, Technology said, ''Our customer base has rocketed from one million to over seven million in the last 12
months. Our EMC Enterprise Storage Network will help us maintain our high quality service by insuring we remain operational during this exceptional growth. With
EMC Enterprise Storage Network as our core infrastructure, Mail.com can scale easily and cost-efficiently support large increases in online storage requirements.''
Mail.com has purchased 27 terabytes of EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage - the equivalent of nearly seven billion electronic mail messages -, EMC Connectrix
Enterprise Storage Network systems, and EMC Celerra File Servers. Mail.com also is implementing a suite of EMC software, including Symmetrix Remote Data
Facility (SRDF), EMC TimeFinder, EMC PowerPath, EMC Connectrix Manager, EMC Volume Logix, and Symmetrix Manager.
''EMC is operating on an entirely new level by providing real, open solutions that transform our vision of unsurpassed flexibility and growth into a reality,'' continued
Walden. ''The truly centralized information management significantly reduces the complexity and costs of managing our growing infrastructure. EMC's storage
management software tools let us move storage to those applications that need it the most today and change it around tomorrow if necessary.''
EMC's Enterprise Storage Network Professional Services consultants are helping Mail.com move quickly and cost-efficiently through the phases of designing and
building the ESN. The ESN is comprised of Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems attached via EMC Fibre Channel connections to EMC Connectrix switches,
EMC Celerra File servers, and Sun Solaris servers.
As part of its commitment to availability, Mail.com will use EMC's SRDF software to provide real-time mirroring of production data between Symmetrix systems
installed at its primary data center and a backup disaster recovery center. The Symmetrix and Celerra systems offer built-in availability features, further enhancing
protection of Mail.com's information.
In addition, Mail.com will use EMC TimeFinder software to create point-in-time copies of production data while systems are online, thereby shrinking backup
windows and creating more time to handle online operations. EMC PowerPath software also will improve information availability and overall server performance by
transparently balancing information loads across all available server paths connecting Mail.com's EMC Symmetrix systems with servers.
Bob Dutkowsky, EMC's Executive Vice President of Markets and Channels commented, ''The highly publicized outages of leading Web sites is testament to the
pressing requirement for Internet firms to not overlook building a super-reliant and flexible infrastructure for their vital and growing information assets. Mail.com is
proactively forging ahead with a cutting-edge EMC Enterprise Storage Network that will enable it to simultaneously scale to support new customers and ensure high
levels of service.''
About Mail.com and EMC
Mail.com, Inc. (http://corp.mail.com) is a leading Internet Messaging Company serving all four market segments that provide e-mail services: direct to consumers,
Web sites, ISPs and corporations. Mail.com serves the consumer market through the Mail.com flagship site, www.mail.com, and over 40 high traffic partner Web
sites such as NBC, Time Warner, CBS SportsLine, CNET, Standard & Poor's and Snap.com. The Company's ISP and corporate partners include AT&T,
EarthLink, GTE and Prodigy.
EMC Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is the world's technology and market leader in the rapidly growing market for
intelligent enterprise storage systems, software and services. The company's products store, retrieve, manage, protect and share information from all major
computing environments, including UNIX, Windows NT and mainframe platforms. The company has offices worldwide, trades on the New York Stock Exchange
under the symbol EMC, and is a component of the S&P Index. For further information about EMC and its storage solutions, EMC's corporate web site can be
accessed at emc.com.
EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Enterprise Storage, Connectrix, Celerra, SRDF, EMC TimeFinder, EMC PowerPath, Volume Logix,
and Enterprise Storage Network are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
