EMC DELIVERS ENTERPRISE-LEVEL BUSINESS CONTINUITY TO AS/400 SYSTEMS
EMC CopyPoint Software Virtually Eliminates Downtime for AS/400
Environments
HOPKINTON, Mass. - May 13, 1999 -- EMC Corporation today further extended
the connectivity and flexibility of its Symmetrix Enterprise Storage
systems with the introduction of EMC CopyPoint software. The new offering
extends EMC's industry leading business continuity capabilities to AS/400
environments. By allowing AS/400 systems to read secondary copies of
production system data, CopyPoint enables customers to take greater
advantage of EMC's premier business continuity software: EMC TimeFinder and
Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF).
"The ability to conduct business around the clock has become essential to
compete in today's global marketplace," said Bob Dutkowsky, EMC's Executive
Vice President, Markets and Channels. "Customers can now rely on EMC
Enterprise Storage to further leverage their AS/400 information resources
and ensure that planned procedures and potential interruptions do not
hinder revenue generating operations."
With EMC CopyPoint software -- working in conjunction with TimeFinder
and/or SRDF -- Symmetrix Enterprise Storage provides virtually
uninterrupted 24-hour by 7-day production level support to AS/400
environments. By utilizing multiple copies of corporate information, which
reside either on the same storage system or at a second remote system, all
AS/400 business-critical production operations continue while secondary
procedures such as point-in-time backups, batch processing, application
testing, and data warehouse loading occur in parallel.
Paul Morrison, Head of Product Marketing, Safetynet Group said, "After
fourteen years of providing recovery solutions to Europe's most mission
critical AS/400 environments, we are now seeing a shift from disaster
recovery to a demand for business continuity. Due to the world's 24 hour
work day, many companies can't afford to have their operations down for
even a minute. EMC CopyPoint has made this around the clock availability a
reality. CopyPoint enables Safetynet's AS/400 customers to take advantage
of EMC's two premier business continuity software offerings-EMC TimeFinder
and SRDF - to enable continuous information availability regardless of
planned or unplanned interruption."
About EMC TimeFinder and SRDF
TimeFinder enables customers to non-disruptively create multiple copies of
production data to be used for backups, data warehouse loading, decision
support applications, application development, Year 2000 testing and other
activities that require copies of data. By issuing commands from the host
system, these copies can be managed separately and used to run simultaneous
tasks in parallel with one another. Once the task is complete, the volume
can be resynchronized with the production volume, reassigned to another
production volume or maintained in place for another task. In the AS/400
environment, there is minimal disruption to the production systems when
TimeFinder is used.
With nearly 5,000 installs, SRDF is the industry's most widely deployed
business continuity and disaster recovery solution. SRDF enables EMC
Symmetrix customers to maintain a duplicate copy of all or some of their
data. Data from a primary Symmetrix system is "mirrored" to a secondary
Symmetrix located in the next building or across long distances. In the
event of a planned or unplanned interruption at the primary site, the data
needed for continuous operation is available at the secondary site.
In addition to disaster recovery, SRDF also is ideally suited for
applications such as data center migration, workload management, Y2K and
Euro testing, and data warehouse refreshes. In each case, SRDF makes
critical information available without disrupting normal revenue-generating
business operations. 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 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,
Symmetrix Remote Data Facility, EMC TimeFinder and EMC CopyPoint are
trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
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