EMC Launches 'Rapid Results' Business Continuity Offering; 30 Days to Design and Implement Business Continuity Solution Providing Protection and Significant Return on Investment.Business/Technology Editors NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com and at www.newstream.com HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2002 To help address customers' increased urgency and minimize the risk and exposure of unplanned outages, 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. today announced Rapid Results, an important new business continuity offering. The Rapid Results offering combines the expertise and strength of the 6,000-person 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. Global Services organization and network of business continuity partners with EMC's industry-leading business continuity technologies to deliver a "productive protection" solution for companies within 30 business days. Productive protection transcends the limited disaster recovery strategy of having an internal recovery site lying dormant Latent; inactive; silent. That which is dormant is not used, asserted, or enforced. A dormant partner is a member of a partnership who has a financial interest yet is silent, in that he or she takes no control over the business. while incurring cost, and empowers businesses to utilize their recovery site to perform tasks such as application development and testing, backups, and data warehouse refreshes. EMC Professional Services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. serves as the customer's central point of contact for assessment, design and implementation of this secure and productive business continuity solution. Carl Greiner, Vice President of Enterprise Data Center Strategies at META Group, Inc., said, "Many companies today deploy traditional disaster recovery solutions that serve as insurance policies in the event of an outage out·age n. 1. A quantity or portion of something lacking after delivery or storage. 2. A temporary suspension of operation, especially of electric power. , but return little - if any - daily value to their businesses. While the awareness around business continuity is heightened, so is the need for business value alignment. A solution that transforms a traditionally passive asset into an active asset adds measurable value to the entire infrastructure." When choosing the EMC Rapid Results offering, businesses not only enjoy the benefits of EMC's industry-leading business continuity products and service expertise, but also gain the wealth of resources provided by EMC's dedicated network of partners. From telecommunications providers and network equipment manufacturers, to independent software vendors (ISVs) and facilities providers, EMC has formed partnerships with SunGard and other industry leaders including AT&T, Unisys and Legato (Legato Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA, www.legato.com) A leading provider of storage management and high-availability software founded in 1988 and acquired by EMC Corporation in 2003. Legato software, including Celestra data management (data mining, data migration, etc. . Jim Simmons, Chief Executive Officer, SunGard Availability Services, said, "Companies increasingly need to augment their traditional recovery efforts with high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. solutions. Rapid Results delivers to the customer a comprehensive offering, capable of combining the expertise of SunGard and EMC in deploying highly productive, highly available solutions, effectively moving the industry in this direction." Joseph Walton Joseph Walton may refer to:
n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. in the public and private sector around infrastructure security. The heightened focus on business continuity has senior-most management in every industry reassessing their state of readiness See: defense readiness condition; weapons readiness state. . In today's global, information-based business environment, they're finding that traditional tape backup Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. strategies don't deliver the speed, consistency or scale they need to recover and compete in a real-time manner. The EMC Rapid Results offering delivers those capabilities for key applications, and can serve as the foundation for an enterprise-wide business continuity strategy." "With more than a 50% share of the data replication software market in 2000, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Gartner Dataquest's most recent report, EMC has led the market for such storage-based business continuity solutions for its customers since we introduced the concept of data replication to the industry in 1994," Walton added. "EMC Global Services, married with EMC's suite of business continuity solutions, provides customers with the depth of expertise and product quality necessary to design and implement an air-tight solution quickly. The EMC Rapid Results business continuity program is designed to minimize risk while providing the maximum business benefit. The steps involved include: -- Strategy and Planning: Assess and evaluate critical business systems, associated information flows, and recovery requirements. Ensure that the appropriate telecommunications infrastructure and bandwidth is available. -- Define and Design: Design a solution to meet each customer's specific business continuity needs. -- Implementation: Physical implementation of hardware, software, and communications required for the solution. An EMC Professional Services consultant works closely with the customer to complete the strategy and planning stage of deploying a productive protection solution. Once completed, and the scope of implementation is agreed upon Adj. 1. agreed upon - constituted or contracted by stipulation or agreement; "stipulatory obligations" stipulatory noncontroversial, uncontroversial - not likely to arouse controversy , EMC will then design and implement a solution in 30 business days. EMC Global Services EMC Global Services includes more than 6,000 professionals entirely focused on helping businesses manage their ever-growing information storage requirements. EMC Global Services is comprised of three distinct segments: Professional Services, Customer Service, and Global Technical Training. EMC Professional Services consultants help businesses design, build, and manage their information infrastructures. EMC Customer Service remains the standard in the IT industry, with a 96.7% satisfaction rate in 2001. EMC's "guilty until proven innocent" approach to customer service, along with its information storage systems' 24-hour "phone-home" capabilities, enable EMC service experts to diagnose diagnose /di·ag·nose/ (di´ag-nos) to identify or recognize a disease. di·ag·nose v. 1. To distinguish or identify a disease by diagnosis. 2. and resolve most issues before they ever impact a customer's business. EMC's Global Technical Training program provides comprehensive training and certification programs for IT professionals to learn the latest best practices in deploying and managing their information storage environments. About EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.012902/bb2 |
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