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Fujitsu Siemens Computers to Offer EMC CLARiiON Systems in Addition To Symmetrix Enterprise Storage
HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2000--
EMC Extends Strategic Alliance to Include Leadership Midrange
Solutions
EMC Corporation, the world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services, today announced it has expanded its strategic alliance with Fujitsu Siemens Computers, Europe's leading IT company, to include a worldwide OEM agreement for EMC's family of CLARiiON storage systems.
Under the agreement, Fujitsu Siemens Computers will market and sell EMC's CLARiiON full fibre channel storage systems as the FibreCAT line of storage systems. The two companies entered an agreement in 1997 for Fujitsu Siemens to sell EMC's family of Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems under the EMC brand name. Fujitsu Siemens Computers' customers can now scale from workgroup to workforce using EMC's world-class storage systems.
Dr. Helmut Beck, Executive Director, Line of Business Storage, at Fujitsu Siemens Computers, said, "Our new FibreCAT systems are ideally suited for integration into a heterogeneous server landscape. These CLARiiON-based systems, combined with EMC Symmetrix, offer our customers an unmatched range of capacity and functionality and enable them to protect and leverage all their information across the enterprise."
EMC CLARiiON systems offer fast, scalable and dependable storage solutions for applications in the distributed environments of large enterprises and for emerging companies with moderate but rapidly growing demands on the performance, availability and manageability of their storage infrastructure.
Frank Farese, EMC's Vice President of Global Alliances, said, "Fujitsu Siemens Computers and EMC have worked closely to provide customers in Europe and around the world with the industry's most comprehensive set of storage solutions. The combination of FibreCAT along with Symmetrix enables our joint customers to achieve unmatched levels of storage functionality, scalability, reliability and performance."
About EMC
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, 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.
About Fujitsu Siemens Computers
Fujitsu Siemens Computers, the leading European IT company, was formed through a joint venture between Fujitsu Computers (Europe) Limited and Siemens Computer Systems, and commenced operations on 1st October 1999. The company is jointly owned by Fujitsu Limited and Siemens AG, and has its headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. With extensive European manufacturing facilities, customer-focused companies in 25 European countries, and more than 9,000 experienced employees, Fujitsu Siemens Computers is aiming to be the number one computer company in its home market, Europe, by the year 2001.
Fujitsu Siemens Computers provides the world's most complete portfolio of best-in-the-class IT products. From the smallest notebooks to the most powerful data centre solutions, its world-leading technology creates solutions to business problems and enhances individual's lifestyle. Developed and manufactured in Europe for Europe, the product portfolio benefits from the technologies and worldwide sourcing networks of the parent companies.
In addition to an enviable customer base which includes most of the top 1,000 largest enterprises in the Europe, the company's assets include: relationships with more than 2,000 of the leading VARs, distributors and retailers with over 100,000 outlets serving millions of customers; a sales organisation with more than 2,500 sales professionals; and the combined strengths of the parent companies - with a global network of service and integration partners as well as more than 80,000 specialists dedicated to the product portfolio. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is the new IT force in Europe. Home page: www.fujitsu-siemens.co |
