EMC Is First to Tap Internet Protocol With Storage-Based Remote Data Replication; SRDF Over IP Opens Customers to New Levels of Business Acceleration
HOPKINTON, Mass., Feb 7, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- In an industry-first move that
completely rewrites the rules of information deployment, EMC Corporation, the
world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services,
today announced Internet Protocol (IP) support in its market-leading data
replication and information protection software, SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data
Facility). By tapping into the IP-based networking infrastructure, which today
is employed in virtually every large enterprise, SRDF Over IP helps customers
accelerate, simplify and optimize business-critical information processes and
resources in innovative, cost-effective ways.
The SRDF Over IP solution enables the automatic replication of files, databases
and applications between geographically separated EMC Symmetrix Enterprise
Storage systems over secure, ubiquitous, but frequently underutilized IP
networks. As a result, SRDF Over IP simplifies the information infrastructure,
streamlines staff overhead and makes vital information more economically and
flexibly available wherever it can provide the most value to the business.
The product is ideally suited for applications requiring localized processing,
speedy information access and remote data replication. For example, when
customers need to deploy mirrored Web sites, refresh data warehouses or migrate
entire suites of applications and databases, SRDF Over IP creates copies of the
data and securely transmits the copies over the high-bandwidth IP network to the
remote Symmetrix system. There, the data can be employed to generate additional
revenue based on local business opportunities, as well as protect vital
enterprise applications from planned and unplanned outages.
Enhanced Information Value
SRDF Over IP enables businesses to capitalize on important e-focused technology
and business trends, including the onrushing convergence of data, voice and
video over existing IP networks, and the explosion of customer, market and
competitive information gaining mission-critical status.
"Our enthusiasm for SRDF Over IP is about more than the technology, which itself
is a major achievement," said Mike Kahn, Chairman and Co-founder of The Clipper
Group, Inc., an independent consulting firm based in Wellesley, Mass. "It also
is about the enhanced economic value and new opportunities that SRDF now
delivers to enterprise customers. It is about lowering telecommunication costs,
which can be reinvested to guarantee the availability of a wider and/or growing
set of mission-critical data. It is also about deploying, where previously
considered impractical or too costly, remote copies of files and databases for
enhanced accessibility and higher information value."
The Clipper Group estimates that SRDF Over IP can significantly reduce the cost
of moving information between primary and remote Symmetrix systems, compared
with the cost of remote data mirroring over dedicated T1, T3 or ATM networks.
This enables users to hold data replication costs constant while increasing the
volume of data that is remotely protected or employed productively in localized
applications.
"EMC is taking a large step in the right direction by implementing storage data
replication over a converged IP network," said Soni Jiandani, Cisco Systems
Workgroup Business Unit, Vice President of Marketing. "Cisco's intelligent
networking plays an instrumental role in ensuring the high performance and
highly reliable delivery of this mission-critical application, resulting in
clear business benefits to Cisco's and EMC's mutual customers."
Mark Ward, EMC Vice President of Global Marketing, said, "In today's dynamic
business environment, characterized by mergers and acquisitions, competitive
threats, and new revenue opportunities, SRDF Over IP offers our customers new
possibilities for employing and protecting the fast-growing volume of
e-information that drives business success. The result is enhanced customer
satisfaction and faster, better-informed business decisions."
Ward added, "With more than 6,000 licenses sold since its introduction in 1995,
SRDF continues to lead EMC's focus on transforming storage from a passive
commodity into a software-driven information infrastructure delivering increased
business value. Once again, EMC is at the center of the world's dynamic
information trends."
Higher Availability, Faster Information Access
"EMC stands alone in offering battle-tested approaches to efficiently mirror
data over extended distances," said Jon Prall, Vice President of Operations at
Excite@Home, of Redwood City, Cal., which recently used SRDF Over IP to mirror
more than one terabyte (1 TB) of data between Symmetrix systems located on the
West and East Coasts. "For Excite@Home, SRDF Over IP offers a rock-solid vehicle
for replicating data to multiple data centers, enabling network traffic load
balancing and cost-effective information protection. SRDF Over IP enables
Excite@Home to more simply and flexibly implement an architecture that will
enhance our customers' Internet experience by reducing access times and
improving data availability."
A major telecommunications provider -- and long-time user of SRDF over
conventional long-distance lines -- recently deployed SRDF over its
high-capacity, high-bandwidth IP network to mirror critical data between data
centers several hundred miles apart. As a result, the firm expects to remotely
protect and productively employ more of its enterprise information. This
solution was implemented by Client Server Professional, Inc.(www.c-s-p.com), a
technical and management consulting services company based in Calverton, Md.
SRDF Over IP is the product of a technology alliance between EMC and CNT
Corporation (www.cnt.com), of Minneapolis, Minn., a leader in storage
networking. CNT's UltraNet Storage Director is a vital element of the new SRDF
offering. Working together, EMC and CNT developed the communication component
and software that convert SRDF data frames to standard IP packets.
Available today, SRDF Over IP operates between local and remote Symmetrix
systems using the ESCON protocol connected by private IP networks, intranets or
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) from Internet Service Providers (ISPs).
EMC Corporation, based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is the world's technology
and market leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent enterprise
storage systems, software, networks and services. The company's products store,
retrieve, manage, protect and share information from all major computing
environments, including Unix, Windows NT, Linux 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 500 Index. For further information
about EMC and its storage solutions, EMC's corporate web site can be accessed at
emc.com.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal
Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in
the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including
but not limited to: (i) component quality and availability; (ii) delays in the
development of new technology and the transition to new products; (iii)
competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, in the
computer storage and server markets; (iv) the relative and varying rates of
product price and component cost declines; (v) economic trends in various
geographic markets and fluctuating currency exchange rates; (vi) deterioration
or termination of the agreements with certain of the Company's resellers or
OEMs; (vii) the uneven pattern of quarterly sales; (viii) risks associated with
strategic investments and acquisitions; (ix) Year 2000 issues; and (x) other
one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time
to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Enterprise Storage and SRDF
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