EMC Announces New Reseller Agreement With UK-Based ICL.HOPKINTON, Mass., and LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 1998-- Three-Year Agreement Enables British Systems and Services Company to Offer 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. Enterprise Storage 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. and UK-based ICL (International Computers Ltd., London) The former name of Fujitsu Services, the European-centered arm of the global Fujitsu Group and one of the leading IT services companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. today announced they have entered a three-year strategic relationship under which ICL will resell EMC Enterprise Storage systems, software and services worldwide. ICL is a leading supplier of IT systems and services with operations in more than 70 countries. ICL will resell EMC Symmetrix The Symmetrix is EMC's flagship enterprise storage array. There have been seven generations of Symmetrix hardware, with the first appearing in 1994 and the latest introduced in 2006. enterprise storage solutions as the preferred platform with its Trimetra range of servers running VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. , UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. . The high-performance Symmetrix systems provide access to as much as six terabytes of capacity in a single system and offer a variety of advanced software features that will enable ICL customers to consolidate, share, manage and protect their enterprise information on a single storage platform. The two companies have jointly developed the interfaces necessary to ensure that Symmetrix systems and their unique information sharing See data conferencing. , protection and management software will deliver high-performance and scalability in Trimetra server environments. Jack Fenton, Business Development Manager for storage at ICL, said, "Our Trimetra product strategy is based on support from multiple operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. combined with common peripherals and shared enterprise storage. EMC Symmetrix, as a best-of-breed, high-end storage solution, is a significant step in the implementation of this strategy." Frank Farese, EMC's Vice President of Reseller Channels, said, "This agreement will bring EMC solutions to targeted sectors of the ICL market, such as central and local government, retail and finance. The combination of ICL's Trimetra servers and EMC's Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems will enable ICL customers to benefit from total information management solutions. Already, EMC and ICL have developed solutions for several major customers in the UK, where ICL has a long standing position as a leader. We now look forward to broadening these offerings in the marketplace." About EMC EMC Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, 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. About ICL ICL is a leading supplier of IT systems and services. Operating in over 70 countries and employing over 19,000 people, the Group's revenues for 1997 were (pound)2,477.1 million generating a pre-tax profit of (pound)30.0 million. The company implements IT systems for major projects and provides innovative services to a range of industries covering amongst others, retail, finance, travel, telecoms and utilities together with education, local and central government sectors. Its services include outsourcing, helpdesks, network services, inter/intranets, electronic commerce, interactive kiosks, smart card systems, digital cities and web sites. ICL plans to relist on the stock market in 2000. ICL's website: http://www.icl.com Symmetrix is a registered trademark and EMC, EMC Enterprise Storage, 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 , SRDF SRDF Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SRDF Symmetric Remote Data Facility and EMC TimeFinder are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This release contains "forward-looking statements" under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could vary materially. Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially include, but are not limited to: component quality and availability, transition to new products, the uneven pattern of quarterly results, changes in business conditions, changes in EMC's sales strategy and product development plans, changes in the data storage marketplace, competition in the data storage market(s), competitive pricing pressures, continued market acceptance of EMC's products, delays in the development of new technology, changes in customer buying patterns, Year 2000 issues, one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
CONTACT: Dana Lieske, EMC
(508) 435-1000, ext. 76357
lieske_dana@emc.com
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion