EMC Advances Enterprise Interoperability and Infrastructure Capabilities for the Microsoft Platform
EMC Joins Interop Vendor Alliance, Delivers New Solutions, Services and
Application Support
HOPKINTON, Mass. - Monday, March 5, 2007
EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced new Microsoft SQL Server 2005 solutions and services, and enhanced Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 support to accelerate business value for enterprise customers using the Microsoft platform. EMC also announced its participation in the Interop Vendor Alliance, a community of software and hardware vendors working together to enhance interoperability with Microsoft systems.
"Customers are deploying Microsoft technologies to enhance the effectiveness of their people and their overall business value. It's critical for multiple technologies and varied vendors' solutions to work together seamlessly and quickly support all of the new important capabilities that Microsoft brings to market," said Chuck Hollis, Vice President, Technology Alliances. "Today's announcement advances EMC's efforts to ensure customers can build their information infrastructure by using the best of what EMC and Microsoft can offer."
New SQL Server Solutions and Services
The new EMC solutions and custom services tie together EMC's deep solution testing integration work with the advanced Microsoft expertise delivered by EMC Global Services. There is growing customer demand to deploy Microsoft SQL Server 2005 for mission critical computing. The following new services help customers accelerate and lower the risk of upgrading or migrating to Microsoft SQL Server:
EMC Design for Microsoft SQL Server Data Warehouse Infrastructure Solution·
EMC Readiness Assessment for Microsoft SQL Server·
EMC Upgrade Implementation Service for SQL Server·
EMC Database Recovery for Microsoft SQL Server·
EMC Performance Optimization for Microsoft SQL Server·
EMC Application Optimization for SQL Server·
EMC Business Intelligence Planning for Microsoft SQL Server
"EMC's strong storage solution capabilities for SQL Server earned it early acceptance into the SQL Server Always On Technologies Partner program," said Michael Raheem, senior product manager, Microsoft Corp. "EMC is also offering SQL Server enterprise customers advanced optimization, planning and recovery services to ensure that both the storage infrastructure and the surrounding application environment can meet the tough demands of mission critical applications on the SQL Server data platform."
Highly Available and Secure Messaging Solution for Microsoft Exchange
EMC has released a new custom solution to secure and protect e-mail by managing e-mail application security and document-level information rights, while also ensuring the right level of data protection for the underlying network and storage infrastructure. This solution addresses the key customer initiatives of providing a reliable and secure messaging infrastructure based on Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 that can meet mission-critical service level requirements and scale to meet ever-growing enterprise needs. It is based on a combination of EMC's data protection and recovery technology, RSA SecurID capabilities, and the award winning delivery expertise of EMC Global Services.
Increased support for Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and VSS
EMC continues providing robust support for our industry leading data protection capabilities with the latest Microsoft applications and data protection features by announcing the availability of:
Exchange Server 2007 support for EMC Replication Manager 5.0 SP1·
Exchange Server 2007 support for EMC NetWorker Module for Exchange.·
Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) support within EMC NetWorker VSS Client for Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
EMC Joins Interop Vendor Alliance
EMC joined the Interop Vendor Alliance, a global, cross-industry group of software and hardware vendors that work together to answer customer demand for enhanced multi-vendor interoperability with Microsoft systems. This expansion of EMC's industry leading interoperability efforts will allow customers to confidently deploy leading EMC hardware, software and integrated solutions for the Microsoft platform.
"Microsoft is extremely pleased that EMC has elected to join the Interop Vendor Alliance," said Sam Rosenbalm, business development manager, Microsoft Corp. and lead manager for the Interop Vendor Alliance. "EMC's history of commitment to interoperability testing and its deep hardware and software alignment with Microsoft technology brings valuable expertise and enterprise information management focus to the Alliance."
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.
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