Comdisco Incorporates EMC Technology For Extended Distance Business Continuity Solutions.ROSEMONT, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 1998-- Customers Offered Robust Protection From System Outages Comdisco, Inc.(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDO (Collaborative Data Objects) A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing MAPI-based e-mail, calendaring and scheduling servers. Originally called "OLE Messaging" and "Active Messaging," CDO wraps the Enhanced MAPI library into a COM object that provides the ) announced today that it has incorporated EMC (1) (EMC Corporation, Hopkinton, MA, www.emc.com) The leading supplier of storage products for midrange computers and mainframes. Founded in 1979 by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino, EMC has developed advanced storage and retrieval technologies for the world's largest companies. Corporation's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF SRDF Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SRDF Symmetric Remote Data Facility ) FarPoint technology into their Advanced Recovery Solutions product set. Comdisco pioneered Advanced Recovery services in 1988 to provide customers with solutions for continuous business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets in the event of planned or unplanned data center outages. In environments where customers need to maintain a duplicate copy of all or some of their data across extended distances, Comdisco can incorporate SRDF FarPoint into the business continuity strategy. Comdisco also signed an enhanced alliance agreement with EMC under which the two companies will work together to provide customers an integrated solution including EMC Enterprise Storage systems and SRDF FarPoint software combined with Comdisco's IT infrastructure, communications, contingency planning and business continuity expertise. EMC and Comdisco will team in joint marketing and sales activities, and share technical knowledge and future directions to ensure rapid delivery of the world's most robust business continuity services. "Comdisco continues to lead the market in advancing technology solutions for continuous availability and rapid recovery," said John Jackson John Jackson may refer to: Politics:
"It takes very little downtime these days to negatively impact revenues, customer loyalty and market share," said Robert M. Dutkowsky, EMC's executive vice president of Markets and Channels. "EMC and Comdisco have collaborated closely for several years, building extremely successful business continuance environments for some of the world's most prominent companies. Comdisco's incorporation of SRDF FarPoint and our newly enhanced alliance agreement combines the strengths of both companies to deliver an exponential level of value for our customers." EMC business continuity solutions -- including Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and powerful software like Symmetrix Remote Data Facility and EMC TimeFinder -- are the foundation upon which thousands of companies around the world eliminate disruptions during routine procedures and safeguard their systems against unplanned outages. Last December EMC announced that WORLDSPAN L.P. purchased the 2,000th SRDF license. This past April, The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation purchased the 1,000th EMC TimeFinder license less than one year after the product's introduction, marking it as the world's fastest selling storage-based business continuity software. Comdisco, Inc. a technology services company, is one of the world's leading providers of solutions that help organizations reduce technology cost and risk. These services include asset management; business continuity; network services; and equipment leasing Equipment Leasing is a financing option to lease equipment for a certain amount of time. Leasing Benefits
EMC Corporation EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is an American Fortune 500 and S&P 500 manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA. , a Fortune 500 company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts Hopkinton is a town located in southwestern Middlesex County, Massachusetts, about 40 km (26.4 mi) from Boston. It is one of nine towns that are part of the region known as MetroWest. The population was 13,346 at the 2000 census. , is the world's leading supplier of intelligent enterprise storage systems and software for mainframe and open systems environments. The company has offices worldwide, trades on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol EMC, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. For further information about EMC products and services, EMC's corporate web site can be accessed at http://www.EMC.com. Comdisco is a registered trademark of Comdisco, Inc. Other names are trademarks of their respective companies. EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and EMC Enterprise Storage and EDM (Engineering Data Management) An information system that maintains the details of all engineering data while the product is in the design and concept phase. This includes geometry and changes to geometry. See PLM. EDM - Electronic Data Management are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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