EMC INTRODUCES SYMMETRIX 3000 SYSTEMS TO OPEN STORAGE MARKET; TEAMS WITH WORLD'S LEADING DATABASE COMPANIES TO DELIVER UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE AND AVAILABILITY.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 14, 1995 -- EMC Corporation, the world's leading independent provider of intelligent information storage solutions, today expanded its product line for the open systems market and announced it is working with three of the world's leading database software providers to deliver unprecedented levels of performance and availability to open systems users through new models of its highly successful Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array (ICDA) systems that attach to all major UNIX CPU platforms.

At a news conference in San Francisco, the company announced it is targeting its new Symmetrix 3000 ICDA systems at data warehousing, decision support, UNIX-based online transaction processing (OLTP) and other vertical applications that require large databases and rapid access to centrally managed information.

Executives from database leaders Oracle Corp., Sybase Inc. and Informix Corp. appeared at the announcement and described how each is working with EMC to address the business needs of large-scale UNIX database users who need high-performance, highly available, scalable storage solutions that attach to multiple platforms. Customers using these leading database applications are reporting much higher performance when running on EMC ICDA systems.

"EMC and these key applications providers have mutual customers who are demanding and driving better integration of technologies to meet their business objectives," said Michael C. Ruettgers, EMC President and CEO. "Through this effort, we expect new market opportunities to open for EMC -- as well as for the database companies -- as open systems customers are better able to leverage their critical information for competitive gain. There is one major beneficiary -- customers."

"EMC has achieved the leadership position in the market for mainframe storage systems in just five years since our entry into that market by understanding and meeting specific user requirements," Ruettgers continued. "We are seeing a similar set of requirements -- performance, capacity, manageability and availability -- being prioritized by users in the open systems market." As it has successfully done in the mainframe market, EMC is addressing the segmented needs of open systems users through its growing open storage family which currently includes the Centriplex 2000 and Harmonix ICDA systems; ModARRAY; a suite of industry-leading storage management software applications and the newly introduced Symmetrix 3000 systems.

First introduced last November, the Centriplex 2000 ICDA systems are providing a rapidly growing installed base with consolidated, high-capacity open storage for business applications deployed on up to eight open server platforms and are a key component of EMC's ICDA product family. ModARRAY, currently being sold through several OEM channels, provides high-value storage for distributed environments and up to four open servers.

David Vellante, Senior Vice President of Storage Systems and Software Services at International Data Corporation (IDC), said, "By developing and expanding a comprehensive set of open storage products and working in conjunction with the leading relational database companies, EMC is showing an understanding of what it takes to deliver value and gain market share in this extremely competitive market. The level of performance Symmetrix provides has never been seen before in the open systems market, and it should prove to be the storage match for ultra-fast servers and high-powered applications."

One early customer utilizing Symmetrix ICDA Systems for open applications is North Carolina-based First Union Corp., the nation's ninth-largest bank holding company. "Symmetrix supports our vision of treating data as an enterprise asset, regardless of processor platform," said Carter Pittman, Director of First Union's Systems Operation Division. "The performance we are seeing on Symmetrix is clearly superior to disk storage we've seen associated with the client/server environment. In the future, we expect it to enhance the performance of our data warehousing and data mining applications."

First Union is relying on Symmetrix to enhance the performance of key applications including its Oracle database. Pittman noted it is critical for First Union to deliver information to external and internal customers around the clock.

Products announced today include:

The Symmetrix 3000 Integrated Cached Disk Array (ICDA) Systems: EMC delivers the performance, capacity and availability of mainframe-class storage to large-scale open database and other applications in the data center. The three models of Symmetrix 3000 are a highly scalable family of systems supporting industry-leading connectivity of up to 32 UNIX servers per system, more than one terabyte (1,118 GB) of capacity and up to 4 GB of cache memory. EMC's Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF) will provide open systems users with the ultimate business continuance solution by enabling remote, real-time mirroring of data. The Symmetrix 3000 systems are currently shipping. (See additional release for more details.)

Centriplex 2000 enhancements: Centriplex 2000 systems now offer extensive management features that improve control of vital open systems data. A new graphical user interface displays configuration, control and status information locally. In addition, Centriplex 2000 can now be monitored with an SNMP management agent, designed to allow operation of Centriplex with all major open systems management applications. Also, EMC's Remote Maintenance Processor (RMP) provides an additional level of maintenance by constantly monitoring Centriplex components for suspect conditions and automatically calling EMC's Customer Support Center so corrective action can be taken before system operations are affected. These features will be generally available June 30.

EDM (Epoch Data Manager): EDM provides fast database and file system backup across the open systems enterprise. This is the first integration of Epoch software and EMC ICDA technology since EMC's acquisition of Epoch Inc., a leader in storage management software solutions and is the first in a series of products. EDM currently provides direct connection to Centriplex and will extend to the Symmetrix 3000 systems as EMC has positioned itself to be a leader in open systems backup capabilities. EDM for Centriplex is currently shipping.

EEB (Epoch Enterprise Backup) for Solaris: The open systems market's first mainframe-class backup and recovery software product now delivers its leading features to Sun Solaris and a wide range of client platforms. EEB for Solaris is the newest version of Epoch's successful backup product for SunOS. EEB for Solaris is currently shipping.

EMC's ICDA storage family utilizes the unique MOSAIC:2000 architecture to allow fast integration of new hardware technology with EMC software enhancements to address customers' client/server storage needs. "EMC is not in the business of providing commodity products to the open systems market," said Neal Waddington, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EMC's Open Storage Group. "We will provide storage to those customers and applications having high business value to the enterprise -- enabling the customers to achieve substantial operational impact or strategic business advantages versus their competitors."

EMC Corporation, based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts is a world leader in enterprise-wide information storage and retrieval technology, designing systems for mainframe, midrange and open systems computing environments. The company has offices worldwide and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC. -0-

Trademarks and respective trademarks are the property of their owners. Other EMC News Releases Issued Today: 1) EMC Delivers Unprecedented Levels of Performance . . . 2) EMC Partners With Oracle, Sybase and Informix . . . 3) EMC Announces Open Systems Backup Solutions . . .

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