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To: ACAN who wrote (16297)	3/15/2006 9:18:20 AM
From: Galirayo	Respond to of 23958

Allan .. you beat me on those. :) MTI Technology Corporation Provides Storage Solution for Avis Europe Wednesday March 15, 9:00 am ET The Leading Car Rental Company in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Upgrades Its Storage Infrastructure With Replicated Installations in UK and Germany GODALMING, Surrey, England and IRVINE, Calif., March 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MTI Technology Corporation (Nasdaq: MTIC - News), a multi-national storage solutions and services company, was chosen to provide a complete storage solution for Avis Europe, the leading car rental company in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. As a result of MTI's strategic solution, Avis has consolidated its disk storage in Frankfurt, (Germany), Bracknell and Heathrow, (UK) to achieve greater system performance, reliability and redundancy. biz.yahoo.com The MTI solution consisted of EMC Clariion storage arrays, backup and remote replication software. The new infrastructure provides very cost effective storage resources that are easier to manage than the outgoing systems and will allow growth and scalability for Avis well into the future.

To: ACAN who wrote (16297)	3/15/2006 9:21:36 AM
From: Galirayo	Respond to of 23958

EMC Delivers Dynamic Root-Cause and Impact Analysis for Voice Over IP Environments Wednesday March 15, 9:00 am ET Announces EMC Smarts VoIP Manager; Delivering Unprecedented Insight into Today's Complex Voice-Enabled Infrastructures HOPKINTON, Mass., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation, the world leader in information management and storage, today announced EMC Smarts Voice over IP (VoIP) Manager -- delivering dynamic root-cause and impact analysis for complex, next-generation voice-enabled networks. The new software monitors VoIP network systems and applications for availability and immediately identifies the root cause of any problems, ensuring that critical voice services remain available. EMC Smarts VoIP Manager provides service providers and enterprises with unprecedented insight and real-time views into the VoIP network by automatically: * Discovering network elements such as voice switches, IP PBXs (private branch exchanges), media gateways and VoIP servers, as well as all telephony and network application services * Building a topology of relationships and dependencies among VoIP and the infrastructure * Establishing device relationships and interconnectivity within the VoIP infrastructure and with all overlying applications "To take advantage of all that VoIP has to offer, service providers and enterprises need to overcome the challenges associated with real-time management of this complex domain," said Chris Gahagan, Senior Vice President, Resource Management, EMC Software Group. "EMC Smarts VoIP Manager addresses this challenge with its common data model and cross-domain correlation capabilities. By providing advanced management capabilities for VoIP, EMC Smarts software enables users to quickly identify root-cause problems, assess impacts and prioritize fixes -- providing an added layer of confidence that key voice-enabled networking services are always up and running." EMC SmartsVoIP Manager is built upon the Smarts common data model that maps devices, relationships, behaviors and interactions across all layers of the IP network, revealing the relationships between network, core applications and business services. This model updates automatically as the environment changes, resulting in a dramatically lower total cost of ownership. Also key is Smarts' cross-domain correlation capability -- enabling the identification of root-cause problems in one domain that may originate in another. EMC Smarts VoIP Manager is driven by information lifecycle management (ILM) -- a powerful customer IT strategy based on the fact that not all information is created equal. This strategy enables enterprises to more effectively manage their growing volumes of information -- from creation to disposal -- according to the information's changing value to the business. EMC offerings such as EMC Smarts are at the heart of this mission, helping organizations manage, use, protect and share their information assets more efficiently and cost effectively. About EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC - News) is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information management and storage that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at emc.com. EMC and Smarts are registered trademarks of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Craig Librett 914-798-8664 librett_craig@emc.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source: EMC Corporation

To: ACAN who wrote (16297)	3/16/2006 7:42:17 AM
From: Galirayo	Respond to of 23958

[EMC] Uncle Sam Wants Storage Tech investors have been very slow to get over the PC as an investment and focus more intensively on the demand for data storage. It's not just consumer and business email, multimedia and documents. There's practically a government mandate to make money in storage-technology companies, as there are regulatory requirements and corporate policies mandating long-term data preservation. The research firm IDC says that, worldwide, companies shipped 831 petabytes worth of disk-storage systems in 2003, but are expected to ship 5,444 petabytes in 2008 -- a compound annual growth rate of 46%. (A petabyte is 1 million gigabytes of information.) IDC says that companies are spending an increasing part of their budget on storage hardware and software, with the gross global bill expected to rise to $75.3 billion in 2008 from $56.6 billion in 2003. Not all of this stored data is of equal value, so a large industry has grown up to offer a variety of access, prioritization and protection at a range of price points. And that is where technology investors need to focus right now for growth and value. A '90s Survivor I've got two companies that appear rather attractive now: one a familiar large-cap, and the other a somewhat obscure but important, and cheap, small-cap. The first is EMC (EMC:NYSE - commentary - research - Cramer's Take), which those of you who have been around for a while will recall as one of the three greatest success stories of the 1990s. It was much, much more than the Google or Apple of its time, rising a stunning 65,740% from January 1990 to January 2000. Since then, EMC is off 73%, but the entire decline occurred in 2001 and 2002, and business has actually been great lately. After a period in which growth had slowed, its legendary sales team's focus on large- and medium-sized companies' need for fast, economical and reliable storage has pushed earnings up 22% again. If EMC brings in 75 cents a share in 2007, which is the conservative consensus estimate, its shares are going for a multiple of just 18, which is very low for a company with its track record, management and growth prospects. One reason for the small multiple, according to an analysis at Sanford Bernstein, is that the company is carrying an unusually large amount of cash -- about $3 a share. Bernstein notes that if EMC was to merely announce a large stock buyback, investors would return and shares would get moving again to keep pace with flashier peers such as Network Appliance (NTAP:Nasdaq - commentary - research - Cramer's Take). I believe the fundamentals are in place for EMC shares to earn up to 80 cents in 2007, and EMC deserves a multiple of 23. If that happens, the stock could break out of a four-year range and get back to $18 over the next 12 months, which suggests the potential for 28% appreciation. thestreet.com