Apogee Networks Joins EMC E-Infostructure Developers Program
Technical Alliance To Improve Network Storage Cost Management
SADDLE BROOK, NJ--(INTERNET WIRE)--Nov 13, 2001-- Apogee Networks, the global provider of advanced Content, and IP Rating, Billing, and Settlement platforms, today announced it has joined EMC Corporation's E-Infostructure(TM) Developers Program, the storage industry's most comprehensive open storage software initiative. EMC (NYSE: EMC - news) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services. Apogee Networks provides the industry's first usage-based chargeback and billing and settlement platforms for Enterprises and Service Providers.
The technical alliance will leverage EMC Enterprise Storage application programming interfaces (APIs) and Apogee Networks' NetCountant(R) Accountability, the industry's first comprehensive usage-based chargeback platform, to provide customers with innovative and complete storage networking solutions that are capable of meeting the most demanding requirements for information scalability, reliability, performance, protection, management as well as storage area network (SAN) visibility and cost containment.
"Enterprises must examine how these new storage services can be leveraged in the new era of the lean IT budget," said Jamie Gruener Senior Analyst, E-Networks and Broadband Access at the Yankee Group. "Storage costs may be declining, but the sheer volume of demand for data has pushed up overall storage disk, maintenance and support costs. It has become mission critical for Enterprises to gain greater control of rising costs while meeting the issues of scalability and flexibility in maintaining network storage infrastructure all at a low total cost of ownership," added Gruener.
"Through its membership in the E-Infostructure Developers Program, Apogee Networks' integration of EMC technology with its usage-based chargeback technology will help customers appropriate storage costs for an information storage infrastructure," said Linda Wright, EMC's Senior Director of Global Alliances. "We look forward to working with Apogee Networks to provide more choices for our customers."
Andrew Burroughs, Apogee Networks' Chief Marketing Officer/GM, noted, "Partnering with a storage management leader such as EMC enables us to provide our customers with the most effective Enterprise storage billing. Our NetCountant Accountability solution enables IT to actually see who is consuming storage resources and to allocate costs to the applications consuming the services in a fair manner. The platform provides complete, intuitive billing capabilities that enable IT to allocate costs for a variety of storage billing including allocated storage and storage transferred. For the first time, IT and Finance organizations have a "best practice" solution that links the cost of providing network storage for corporate users directly to consumption, thereby establishing cost transparency," added Burroughs.
EMC's E-Infostructure Developers Program provides wide-scale access to EMC APIs, which are software paths into EMC Enterprise Storage systems and software. The program enables independent software developers to select from, and rapidly integrate, a large variety of information management, sharing and protection tools. By sharing its APIs with companies such as Apogee Networks, EMC helps customers take full advantage of the leading performance, availability and management features of EMC solutions, while eliminating costly, time-consuming application creation or customization. Further information on EMC's E-Infostructure Developers Program can be found at www.emc.com/partnersalliances/einfostructure/developers.
About Apogee Networks
Headquartered in Saddle Brook, New Jersey, Apogee Networks, Inc. develops Content and IP Rating, Billing and Settlement solutions for Content Distributors, ISPs, Carriers, Wireless Internet Providers and Enterprise customers. Apogee Networks' NetCountant(R) award-winning product line provides full end-to-end content, revenue settlement, IP billing and usage-based chargeback solutions. The company recently was awarded Billing World 2001 Excellence Award for Billing Financial Software, Finalist 2001 Best of Show NetWorld +Interop, Software Business Magazine's 2001 Software Industry Award, 2001 Frost and Sullivan Market Engineering Award for Product Innovation, 2001 OSS Excellence Awards, Finalist/Runner-up, COMNET 2001 New Product Achievement Award. For additional information call 1-888-APOGEE3 (276-4333), 1-201-368-8800, or email info@apogeenetworks.com, or visit us at www.apogeenetworks.com.
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