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To: dennis michael patterson who wrote (4929)	3/17/1999 10:34:00 AM
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Wednesday March 17, 9:59 am Eastern Time Company Press Release EMC Showcases Remote Windows NT-Based Failover Solution Mission-Critical High-Availability Configuration Demonstrated At Intel's Pentium III Xeon Processor Launch Event HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999-- EMC Corporation, the world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services, today demonstrated the world's first Intel-based geographic failover solution for a SQL Server 7.0 database and its associated applications running on Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition. The mission-critical high-availability configuration was showcased at the launch of Intel's new Pentium® III Xeon(tm) processor, announced today. The remote failover demonstration utilizes Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) and EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) to highlight the enterprise capabilities of Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition on servers using the Intel Pentium III Xeon processor. The MSCS software supports the connection of two Pentium III Xeon-based servers into a ''cluster'' for higher availability and easier manageability of data and applications. Combined with EMC's SRDF software, which enables real-time remote mirroring of information between two EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems, this solution provides remote failover of both the Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 database and its SAP R/3 application. This enables users to rapidly begin operations with a synchronized secondary system, at a separate location, if the primary system becomes disabled. ''Customers are moving more and more of their mission-critical computing to Windows NT Server and require high levels of reliability, scalability and data integrity to support these important applications,'' said Edmund Muth, Group Product Manager at Microsoft. ''EMC's demonstration illustrates that 'data center' features, such as geographic clustering, are moving into the Windows NT-based mainstream to meet customer expectations for 24x7 availability.'' Dave Cowan, Vice President and General Manager, Intel Server Component Division, said, ''The EMC demonstration showcases the scalable multiprocessing support for mission-critical applications that Intel's Pentium III Xeon processor can provide. Working together with industry leaders like EMC, we can support customers in deploying a unified architecture across a full range of scalable multiprocessing systems, anywhere from 2-way, 4-way, 8-way and beyond solutions.'' Jim Pearson, EMC's Vice President, Enterprise Alliances, said, ''As Windows NT is increasingly deployed for mission-critical applications, organizations need the same level of availability that they demand in their UNIX and mainframe environments. EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and SRDF, combined with the reliability, performance and scalability of Pentium III Xeon processor-based servers, provides Windows NT customers with a platform capable of supporting their most important applications.'' 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 and SRDF are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Rick Lacroix, EMC 508-435-1000 (Ext. 77261) lacroix_rick@emc.com