EMC CORPORATION INSTALLS 100TH SYMMETRIX 3000 OPEN STORAGE SYSTEM; Early Milestone Marks One of EMC's Most Successful Product Introductions Ever.HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 16, 1995--EMC Corporation, the world's leading independent provider of intelligent information storage solutions, today announced the installation of its 100th Symmetrix 3000 open storage system. 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. introduced the Symmetrix 3000 Series Integrated Cached Disk Array (ICDA ICDA abbr. International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States ) systems for client/server computing environments on June 14. Rheem Manufacturing Company, a leading provider of water heaters for home and commercial use, installed the 100th Symmetrix 3000 system after evaluating a competitive product from Hewlett-Packard. Headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama Montgomery is the capital and second most populous city of the U.S. state of Alabama and the county seat of Montgomery County. Montgomery is notable for its historic involvement during the Civil War, for being the first capital of the Confederacy, and for being a primary site in , the manufacturer chose the Symmetrix 3200 to store and access up to 140 gigabytes of information generated by an Informix relational database relational database Database in which all data are represented in tabular form. The description of a particular entity is provided by the set of its attribute values, stored as one row or record of the table, called a tuple. running on a Hewlett-Packard server for materials resource planning Resource planning may refer to:
"The performance, reliability, and flexibility of the Symmetrix 3200 have been extraordinary," said Ed Nowicki, Rheem's Manager of Management Information Systems. "During our evaluation, the Symmetrix already has increased performance of our open systems environment by nearly 50 percent. And, after our county suffered through 4,000 hits of lightning during a severe storm, the only system left up and running in our data center was the Symmetrix." David Vellante, Senior Vice President of Storage Systems and Software Services at International Data Corporation (IDC), said, "The rapid market acceptance of the Symmetrix 3000 Series underscores EMC's understanding of what it takes to deliver value and gain share in this extremely competitive market. The level of performance EMC storage systems provide is proving to be the storage match for ultra-fast servers and high-powered applications." "The introduction of the Symmetrix 3000 Series has been one of EMC's most successful and fastest product rampups ever," said Neal Waddington, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EMC's Open Storage Group. "Industry leaders such as Rheem Manufacturing are taking advantage of EMC's advanced open systems technology to dramatically speed up their processing of critical information in complex client/server environments. In less than nine weeks since we announced the Symmetrix 3000 Series, demand has been extremely strong, with dozens more units being evaluated in customer environments and a very high level of customer enthusiasm." The Symmetrix 3000 Series is the newest addition to EMC's open storage family, providing customers with a combination of capacity, performance, reliability, and connectivity previously not available in the client/server market. Through its operating system-independent technology, the powerful Symmetrix 3000 provides users of large relational databases and demanding client/server applications with fast, highly intelligent storage for multiple, heterogeneous UNIX-based platforms. 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. , based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is a world leader in enterprise-wide information storage and retrieval information storage and retrieval, the systematic process of collecting and cataloging data so that they can be located and displayed on request. Computers and data processing techniques have made possible the high-speed, selective retrieval of large amounts of technology, designing systems for mainframe, midrange and open systems environments. The company has offices worldwide and 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. CONTACT: Mark Fredrickson Rick Lacroix (508) 435-1000 |
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