On EMC's lead in Automated Storage Management:
"Wrapping a management layer around the whole business of storage
replication is a key emerging requirement for ASAMS (Automated Storage
Management Solutions). EMC is the first to offer this function."
- Nick Allen, "Automating SAM: A Manifesto," Gartner, 5/21/02.
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On the value of EMC's Automated Storage Management:
[Edward Jones' CIO Rich Malone on their decision to go with EMC after also
considering products from IBM and Hitachi]: "My staff raves about how the
EMC tools make it so easy and straightforward to change and grow our storage
infrastructure. We have not added a storage administrator to our staff in
years. After the markets reopened following the Sept. 11 tragedy, we
experienced a surge in trade volumes unlike ever before. EMC was key to
handling those record trading days."
- Rich Malone, CIO, Edward Jones, quoted in Securities Industry News,
5/20/02.
On EMC competitors:
"They don't know how to deal with this new animal - EMC the software vendor,
this kinder, gentler EMC."
- John Webster, Illuminata, quoted in Storage Magazine, May 2002.
On EMC Centera:
"We believe EMC has a 12+ months critical software lead."
- Rich Evans, Client Advisory, The Meta Group, 5/6/02.
"EMC has demonstrated once again it can think outside the box and is not
afraid to blaze a new trail, much like it did with Symmetrix."
- The Enterprise Storage Group, Product Brief, May 2002.
"We believe EMC's approach offers a glimpse into a future where storage can
be made simpler, more cost effective, and perhaps even transparent to the
user."
- Clay Ryder, "EMC Launches Centera," The Sageza
Group, 5/3/02.
[Storing backups online with Centera, rather than on tape] "will give us
orders of magnitude better performance and reliability."
- Tom Hickman, senior product manager, Connected Corp., quoted in Storage
Magazine, May 2002.
On EMC's market leadership:
[EMC is the number one vendor for both SAN and NAS, according to 369
executives and IT professionals who attended the Gartner Symposium, because
of the importance they place on having a single] "key vendor, a designation
that ultimately ends up pulling in related sales."
- Laura Conigliaro, Goldman Sachs, quoted in Byte and Switch, 5/22/02.
Three EMC customers on EMC's Business Continuity solutions:
"If our Unix and Windows 2000 platforms were still relying on a tape-based
recovery solution, it would have taken weeks to fully restore the data.
Instead, because of the SRDF [Symmetrix Remote Data Facility] software we
deployed, we instantly had a full mirrored copy of our data at the remote
site. Our Unix and Windows 2000 environments were intact and secure,
enabling us to focus on other problems that arose during the 9/11 crisis. We
owe the success of our business continuity solution to the performance of
the technology and to outstanding field service support."
- Alban Bramble, assistant vice president of Unix and Windows 2000
platforms, Commerzbank, quoted in Disaster Recovery Journal, Spring 2002.
"We've been headed [toward bringing on-line a second data center that is a
fully functional and running replicate of the production systems] for the
last several years. As networks got more complex, with firewalls and
e-commerce apps, the more complex offsite recovery got. We're now fully
mirrored in two data centers, 25 miles apart [supported by EMC hardware and
software]."
- Dan Chase, manager of computing cervices, Eastman Chemical, quoted in
Storage Magazine, May 2002.
"If a disaster takes place and I don't have this [EMC's technology
supporting Omgeo's central-matching solution] in place, then I am out of
business."
- Gary Foster, chief technology officer, Omgeo, quoted in Wall Street &
Technology, 5/14/02. |
