EMC PowerPath Software Breaks New Ground in Automated Information Management.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)--Nov. 19, 2001 Enhanced PowerPath Software Automates Performance and Availability for Networked Storage Connectivity Extending its lead in the global information storage software market, EMC Corporation today unveiled significant enhancements to its PowerPath software. 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. PowerPath now includes an industry-first feature: full end-to-end automated path fail-over for networked storage environments. PowerPath now delivers high performance, "SAN aware" automated path fail-over extending from the server, through the network switch to the storage system. PowerPath's latest enhancements enable the server to continue processing I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output requests to an alternate Fibre Channel adapter on the EMC Symmetrix Enterprise storage system in the event of path failure (see Figure A). In addition, PowerPath now supports Novell NetWare 5.0 (SP6a), 5.1 (SP2) and Novell Cluster Services 1.1, complementing existing support for Windows NT/2000, 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) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Sun Solaris, HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. and Compaq Tru64. EMC PowerPath software enhances storage network performance and information availability. Since its introduction in 1997, PowerPath has led the industry with its multiple path I/O capabilities, automatic load balancing and path fail-over functions in one comprehensive package. PowerPath prevents costly and time-consuming outages, enabling the IT administrator to serve more customers, run more applications and pursue more business opportunities. EMC has sold more than 38,000 PowerPath licenses worldwide. Automated Path Fail-Over In the event of an I/O path failure (either between the HBA (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. and the switch or between the switch and the Symmetrix Fibre Channel adapter), PowerPath will automatically fail over not only to another host bus adapter See host adapter. , but now to an alternate Symmetrix Fibre Channel adapter. As a result, the information traveling on the storage network remains uncorrupted, the customer's application remains fully active, and business continues unaffected. PowerPath also automatically tunes applications running on the storage network for optimum performance. PowerPath enables the customer to set business based policies that determine application priorities. PowerPath dynamically and automatically allocates more bandwidth to applications with a higher priority, greatly increasing the speed of the customer's most important applications. PowerPath now also enhances application performance and overall network efficiency by segmenting I/O paths for given applications into dedicated paths to a Symmetrix volume (virtual disk). "The only way to break the link between the skyrocketing growth of information and the need for more and more IT personnel is automation," said Bud Michels, President & CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. at CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P , a leading consulting services company. "Seamlessly automating the movement of information - with products such as PowerPath - makes information available where and when it's needed, unclogs network bottlenecks, and frees our IS managers for more productive, revenue-generating activities." EMC Extends Software Lead EMC extended its #1 market share lead in storage management software in 2000, according to Gartner Dataquest, growing nearly six points to 25.5% in 2000. EMC outpaced the next closest software competitor by more than nine percentage points in the $5.3 billion worldwide storage management software market. 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 http://www.emc.com. EMC and Symmetrix are registered trademarks and PowerPath is a trademark of EMC Corporation. 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