EMC Fast-Forwards Development of Multi-Vendor Storage Management Standards.Business/Technology Editors HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2002 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. , Industry Vendors Advance "CIM (1) (Computer-Integrated Manufacturing) Integrating office/accounting functions with automated factory systems. Point of sale, billing, machine tool scheduling and supply ordering are part of CIM. " Common Information Model Capability; EMC Continues Strategy of Incorporating Open Standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced into WideSky Middleware EMC and other storage industry leaders today announced the joint contribution to the Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ) of technology targeted at furthering SNIA's development of industry standards for networked multi-vendor storage environments. This technology - also known as "Bluefin" -- uses the Common Information Model (CIM) and Web-Based Enterprise Management (standard, system management) Web-Based Enterprise Management - (WBEM) A DMTF management standard using the Common Information Model to represent systems, applications, networks, devices and other managed components; developed to unify the management of distributed computing (WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management) An umbrella term for using Internet technologies to manage systems and networks throughout the enterprise. Both browsers and applications can be used to access the information that is made available in formats such as HTML and ) technologies to build a specification of a standard interface for specific tasks common to the management of multi-vendor storage networks. Don Swatik, EMC Vice President of Global Alliances and Information Sciences, said "The successful development of open industry standards presents a tremendous opportunity to reduce the time, effort, and cost of delivering management tools for heterogeneous networked environments. If accepted by SNIA, the contribution of the Bluefin specification will go a long way in getting vendors and customers well down the road towards the management of heterogeneous storage networks." The draft specification announced today provides a common blueprint for storage area network (SAN) management that can discover, monitor, report, and control physical and logical elements in a storage information infrastructure and also introduces new technology for security, locking, and discovery for SAN management. This specification builds upon the CIM/WBEM development work led by SNIA for the past two years. EMC has been actively involved in both the development of CIM as well as the collaborative development of the Bluefin technology announced today. Upon acceptance by SNIA, together with industry partners, EMC will work with SNIA to create and implement a transition plan that appropriately incorporates this new technology into existing SNIA specifications-making efforts. In addition to driving the development and future adoption of the CIM specifications, EMC will continue with its stated strategy of incorporating both the agreed-upon CIM specification and the proposed Bluefin technology into the EMC WideSky middleware. WideSky serves as a "universal translator The universal translator is a fictional device common to many science fiction works, especially on television. Its purpose is to offer an instant translation of any language. " that enables customers and product developers to take advantage of both API and standards-based interfaces for managing heterogeneous storage environments. WideSky is the industry's first storage management middleware technology that addresses the complex issues of managing a multivendor storage infrastructure. Currently available, WideSky incorporates a number of industry-based interfaces (e.g. SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. , MIBs) and vendor-based interfaces (e.g. APIs and CLIs) to provide independent software vendors a common access mechanism to incorporate a wide range of storage management capabilities into their products. About EMC 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. is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. More information on today's announcements is available on www.EMC.com. EMC is a registered trademark and WideSky is a trademark of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This release contains "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. " as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) further adverse changes in economic conditions; (ii) further delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) the company's ability to effectively manage operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales and increase operating efficiencies; (iv) further declines in revenue; (v) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory Obsolete Inventory Term that refers to inventory that is at the end of its product life cycle and has not seen any sales or usage for a set period of time usually determined by the industry. This type of inventory has to be written down and can cause large losses for a company. ; (vi) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures; (vii) component quality and availability; (viii) rapid technological and market change and the transition to new products; (ix) the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new products; (x) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines; (xi) the effects of war or acts of terrorism, including the effect on the economy generally, on particular industry segments, on transportation and communication systems and on the company's ability to manage logistics in such an environment, including the receipt of components and distribution of products; (xii) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xiii) the uneven pattern of quarterly sales; (xiv) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xv) risks associated with strategic investments and acquisitions; (xvi) the Company's ability to execute on its plans; and (xvii) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. |
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