EMC Centera Awarded 'Best Infrastructure Technology' for Life Sciences Companies; Centera Wins 'Best of Show' at the IDG BioIT World Conference & Expo.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BioITWorld San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. 2002 HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2002 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. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : 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. ) today announced that the EMC Centera content addressed storage A storage technique from EMC for content that is in its final form (fixed content). CAS assigns an identifier to the files so they can be accessed no matter where they are located. (CAS) solution has received "Best of Show" honors at the BioIT World Conference & Expo, the premier event for life sciences professionals to evaluate advanced IT solutions and bioinformatics. EMC Centera was recognized as "the IT infrastructure technology that will have the most significant and measurable impact on the life sciences sector by enabling scientists and other industry professionals to accelerate and streamline the critical research and development process." "Centera's content addressing software makes it an online storage solution that provides content immutability and authentication features we have not seen before in any storage medium," said John Russell John Russell may refer to:
The EMC Centera CAS solution enables life sciences companies to meet the compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). for Good Clinical Practices, Good Laboratory Practices, Good Manufacturing Practices and FDA FDA abbr. Food and Drug Administration FDA, n.pr See Food and Drug Administration. FDA, n.pr the abbreviation for the Food and Drug Administration. regulation 21 CFR CFR See: Cost and Freight Part 11. The world's first CAS solution, EMC Centera employs breakthrough content addressing technology to provide online access and assured long-term content authenticity for the storage of "fixed content" - long-lasting, unchanging digital objects - such as drug discovery research, electronic business documents, clinical trial results, and e-submissions. Introduced in April of this year, the EMC Centera CAS solution is fast-becoming the first cross-vendor, cross-industry unifying storage platform for the myriad of fixed content management applications. Centera offers the unique blend of centralized management, ensured content uniqueness, and scalability from terabyte- to petabyte-sized environments with almost zero additional management overhead. This value proposition has already prompted more than fifty of the world's leading application providers to integrate their own solutions with Centera content addressed storage. EMC's Vice President and General Manager of Content Addressed Storage, Tom Heiser, said, "Through Automated Networked Storage, EMC's goal is to unify information infrastructures, providing one automated environment to handle the diverse business needs of our life sciences customers' varied information types. With the Centera CAS solution, EMC has redefined what an end-to-end, integrated networked storage solution can do for organizations to improve research collaboration and speed drugs to market." About EMC Life Sciences EMC is a leading provider of automated networked storage solutions to the life sciences industry. For more than a decade, EMC has been working with leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies Top 100 Biotechnology Companies The following is a list of the top 100 biotechnology companies ranked by revenue. The first nine companies qualify for the list of the top 50 pharmaceutical companies. as well as government and academic organizations. EMC solutions help life sciences companies manage, share and protect the enormous amount of information resulting from the mapping of the human genome The human genome is the genome of Homo sapiens, which is composed of 24 distinct pairs of chromosomes (22 autosomal + X + Y) with a total of approximately 3 billion DNA base pairs containing an estimated 20,000–25,000 genes. . About EMC EMC Corporation is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing automated networked storage solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to better and more cost-effectively manage, protect and share their information. More information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com. EMC is a registered trademark, and Centera is a trademark of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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