MSFT & EMC worrk together to find storage solutions and Windows 2000 beta is compliant with EMC's storage systems.
CHICAGO (April 19) BUSINESS WIRE -April 19, 1999--
"The EMC Effect" For Enterprise Windows NT Environments Highlighted At Windows
World 1999; Symmetrix Systems To Support
Windows 2000
As large Windows NT Server-based applications increasingly become
mission-critical for organizations, EMC Corporation and Microsoft are highlighting
Enterprise Storage Network-based solutions that provide companies with the highest
levels of scalability and availability to ensure a constant flow of information.
EMC, the world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems, software and
services, is demonstrating the benefits of three of its solutions for Windows NT
Server-based environments, to thousands of users at Windows World 1999 in the
show's Partner Pavilion. These include a high availability Microsoft Exchange
messaging solution, EMC's remote fail-over capabilities, and EMC Enterprise
Storage Networks.
Also, EMC today announced that its Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems are
compliant with the soon to be released Windows 2000 Server beta version 3, which
is the next generation of Windows NT Server. Symmetrix will be available for
deployment by developers and early adopters of the advanced operating system.
The three solutions being showcased at Windows World 1999 include:
-- High Availability for Microsoft Exchange environments. EMC and
Microsoft have developed technical standards that help global
corporations easily implement and achieve the highest levels of
availability in their Microsoft Exchange environments. Microsoft
Exchange is an enterprise-level Windows NT Server-based messaging
and e-mail application. The two companies are separately offering
professional services to help corporations implement these
solutions, which incorporate EMC's industry leading Symmetrix
Enterprise Storage systems and EMC information management,
protection and sharing software.
-- Remote fail-over capabilities for Windows NT Server-based
environments utilizing EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility
(SRDF) software, along with Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS). This
solution will provide the highest levels of mission-critical
information protection and availability and will enable users to
rapidly begin operations with a synchronized secondary system, at
a separate location, if their primary system becomes disabled.
-- EMC Enterprise Storage Networks, which allow organizations to
consolidate and protect Windows NT Server-based information from
hundreds of disparate servers, onto an EMC Enterprise Storage
system. EMC's ESN provides an enterprise-wide information
infrastructure that is easily managed and provides high levels of
information protection, availability and scalability.
"We're excited that EMC is extending its Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and EMC information
management software to work with Exchange Server," said Dave Malcolm, group product manager at
Microsoft Corporation. "Exchange Server is the reliability and scalability leader for enterprise messaging and
collaboration systems, and the EMC solutions will further enhance the availability of this mission-critical
application."
A recent worldwide survey of more than 800 IS executives, conducted by research firm Find/SVP on behalf of
EMC, revealed that a large majority are deploying mission-critical applications on Windows NT and are
consolidating that information for better management, protection and sharing. Nearly 70 percent of the
respondents now consider their e-mail and messaging systems to be mission-critical.
Frank Farese, EMC's Vice President of Global Alliances, said, "EMC Enterprise Storage Networks allow
Windows NT Server users to stretch the walls of their data center, offering enterprise level protection and
management to information generated throughout a company. E-mail and messaging have become as essential
to many businesses as the telephone, and when they are not available a business is severely hampered. EMC
has a long track record of providing companies with solutions that ensure their information is constantly
available and properly protected." 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 and services.
The company's products store, retrieve, manage, protect and share information from all major computing
environments, including UNIX, Windows NT Server 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.
EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Enterprise Storage and SRDF are trademarks of EMC
Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners |
