EMC Intelligent Storage bolsters leading business publisher's move to open systems; CCH brings together competitive benefits of open systems and mainframe worlds with deployment of powerful Symmetrix 3500 Storage Systems.HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 1996--EMC Corporation today announced that CCH CCH Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (Spanish) CCH Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist CCH Cook County Hospital CCH Certified in Classical Homeopathy CCH Country Club Hills (Fairfax City, VA, USA) Incorporated, one of the nation's largest providers of tax and business law information and software, has selected EMC's Symmetrix 3500 Integrated Cached Disk Array (ICDA ICDA abbr. International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States ) systems to strengthen its transition from mainframe to open systems computing. CCH will use three Symmetrix 3500 systems to provide intelligent, high-performance data storage to Hewlett-Packard and Sun servers running Oracle, Informix, and Adabase relational databases. CCH Legal Information Services See Information Systems. , a CCH subsidiary, separately selected a Symmetrix 3500, which is attached to IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) RS/6000 servers running IBM's DB2/6000 relational database software. Both CCH businesses are using the open systems platforms to run all their major internal and external operations, supporting such applications as online publication databases, accounting, order management, and customer databases. Intelligent Storage For Competitive Advantage CCH, headquartered in Riverwoods, Ill., is nearing completion of a major re-engineering strategy to evolve from a publisher of printed reference materials to a provider of information through a variety of formats. Today, CCH delivers business information and services in the form of software programs, CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). , online databases, as well as the traditional black-bound volumes found in legal and accounting offices throughout the country. "An urgent need to deliver more services more quickly to our clients has been the force driving us to go from a mainframe shop to a total open systems, client/server environment A networking environment that is made up of clients and servers running applications designed for client/server architecture. See client/server. in only two years," said Dave Dubnick, Manager of Technology Operations for CCH. "Although open systems greatly improves our flexibility, we also have found it does not provide the high performance and reliability we were accustomed to in the mainframe world. With EMC's Symmetrix, we enjoy the benefits of open systems, while maintaining the mainframe-class system availability and power we need to be competitive." CCH chose 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. after evaluating competing storage systems. The 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. systems are replacing CCH's installed storage solutions, which it purchased from server vendors. "Although we have only just started to deploy Symmetrix into our environment, we already have noticed significant performance improvements," added Dubnick. "For example, it used to take three hours to create a file system. With Symmetrix, we did the job in 52 minutes." Strategic Storage For CCH Legal Information Services At CCH Legal Information Services in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , a Symmetrix 3500 is attached to IBM RS/6000 servers, and eventually will provide storage to Windows NT-based servers. The CCH subsidiary also uses the EMC Data Manager (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 ) to provide high-speed backup and recovery of information stored on RS/6000, 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. , and Netware servers. CCH Legal Information Services chose EMC Symmetrix over storage solutions from several competitors. "EMC is the only vendor that addresses storage as a mission-critical strategic solution," said Matthew J. D'Errico, Director of Strategic Technology and Architecture for CCH Legal Information Services. "Other vendors treat storage as a tactical place to put data. EMC's unique point of view allowed us to use storage in ways that have significantly improved our competitive position." D'Errico credits EMC with providing twice the system performance, allowing the CCH unit to deliver information more quickly to its customers. Also, EMC Symmetrix's disk mirroring, remote maintenance, automatic recovery and ability to connect to multiple systems have dramatically improved system availability, creating what D'Errico described as a "zero downtime environment." "EMC's commitment to the customer is something I've yet to see from other vendors," added D'Errico. "Their attitude of whatever it takes to make the customer happy is extremely refreshing in today's environment." "CCH's bold and successful move into open systems is affirmation of our strategy for the Symmetrix 3000 family," said Neil Waddington, Senior Vice President and General Manager of EMC's Open Storage Group. "We developed the Symmetrix 3000 in response to customers who were clamoring for mainframe-levels of performance and availability in the open systems world. The Symmetrix 3000 is the only solution that brings together the competitive advantages of open systems and mainframes onto one storage platform." About EMC EMC Corporation, 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. For further information about EMC products and services, visit EMC's home page at http://www.emc.com. CONTACT: Mark Fredrickson (508) 435-1000 |
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