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Technology Stocks : EMC How high can it go? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: JakeStraw who wrote (12893)	7/16/2001 3:35:33 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17183

It looks like Home Depot is turning out to be a major battleground for EMC vs Hitachi. Last year's battle royale in the retailing sector was EMC vs IBM at Walmart which EMC eventually won. Right now it appears that Home Depot is running both EMC and HDS systems in parallel. From the EMC press release dated 7/16/2001: ".......EMC invests more in storage software than any other vendor, and frankly, it shows," continued Larson. "With EMC software, we now move around and re-use storage on the fly to ensure our storage utilization levels consistently hit 90% or more. EMC software has allowed us to chip away at sources of downtime as part of our ongoing commitment to make information more available to our users." Home Depot, based in Atlanta, has more than doubled the capacity of its existing EMC information storage infrastructure and has begun to implement over 50 copies of EMC information storage and management software - including HighRoad, ESN Manager, PowerPath, TimeFinder, ControlCenter and Symmterix Optimizer -- to support its online and offline growth....... ......Home Depot has consolidated the information fueling its business-critical applications including retail store systems, accounts payable, human resources, payroll, e-business, intranet and data warehousing on EMC storage. EMC's multi-year commitment to open and heterogeneous information storage has enabled Home Depot to centralize the storage resources for its range of operating systems and servers - such as Windows NT, Unix, IBM RS/6000 AIX, Novell, and IBM MVS and Hewlett-Packard - onto a single, easy to manage platform..... ........Home Depot's EMC information infrastructure includes EMC's Celerra File Server, a network-attached storage (NAS) solution, and EMC's Celerra HighRoad software, which integrates the benefits of NAS and SAN into one seamless architecture. *The company plans to use Celerra and HighRoad to deploy a "write once, publish everywhere" strategy to train its vast employee base.* "The possibilities for EMC's Celerra and Celerra HighRoad are endless," said Larson. "Celerra soon will house Intranet images of products and training videos for hundreds of thousands of Home Depot employees. Today, we need to send updates to 1,200 stores every time we change this information. By making Celerra our central repository, it will be a breeze to update our information only one time and dramatically lower our data management costs...." From the Hitachi Data Systems press release dated 7/16/2001: ..........Hitachi Data Systems today announced that Home Depot, the nation’s number one do-it-yourself retailer has agreed with Hitachi Data Systems to purchase hundreds of Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder 9200 storage systems for Home Depot’s new stores now being built in 450 new locations across the US. This agreement extends Home Depot’s long-term relationship with Hitachi Data Systems in which it had previously deployed Hitachi’s 5700 E storage arrays in more than one thousand Home Depot stores..... .......The Hitachi Freedom Storage Thunder will now provide the foundation for Home Depot’s day-to-day business operations such as email subsystems, labor scheduling and inventory management, sales information, as well as for newer applications including training programs, online videos and CPT. hds.com Note the conflicting claims between EMC, which is already shipping Celerra HighRoad, and Hitachi, which does not have a comparable product, regarding training videos.