EMC selected as strategic partner in Telekom Malaysia's global systems business strategy; EMC's network storage to play critical role in global business initiative and Internet business opportunities.HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 1996--EMC Corporation today announced that Telekom Malaysia, one of the largest computer data centers in Malaysia, has purchased $6 million (US) worth of EMC Symmetrix 5500 Intelligent Cached Disk Array (ICDA ICDA abbr. International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States ) systems. The Symmetrix systems and planned 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. network storage systems will serve as key components of the underlying infrastructure for Telekom Malaysia's newly announced Global System Strategy. Through the Global System Strategy, Telekom Malaysia this year will launch its outsourcing business for the management of other developing countries' telecommunications infrastructures. "In addition to the obvious performance advantages these systems will provide our business operations, we have selected EMC as the key strategic partner in our Global System Strategy as we leverage our expertise with other developing nations," said Johal Manzlan Merican, Telekom Malaysia's Head of Information Technology Strategy. "EMC has the current product offering and the underlying product plans to help us enter new markets faster than anyone else. For instance, EMC's planned network storage systems cement EMC's position as a key player as the Internet and Worldwide Web take on an increasing role in our success." Intelligent Systems for Direct Network Connection EMC recently unveiled plans to introduce the first intelligent storage systems that will connect directly to the network. Under the Intelligent Storage Architecture (ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. ), EMC will introduce storage systems later this year with advanced software-based intelligence to enable the storage systems to be accessed over the network without host computer intervention. "The benefits of EMC's approach to network storage are clear -- improved I/O speeds, more efficient utilization of servers for application processing, and vastly improved data availability," said James B. Rothnie, EMC's Senior Vice President of Corporate Marketing. "EMC has a stronger opportunity to lead the network storage trend than any other company, for several fundamental reasons," said Michael C. Ruettgers, EMC's President and 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. . "First, we are already the leader in today's most demanding markets --intelligent storage systems operating in the mainframe and UNIX server markets. Second, we are the only leading supplier of intelligent storage solutions that is not a CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. vendor. For most computer companies, storage has always been an afterthought -- which is why they continue to miss the fundamental shifts away from the importance of processing and toward the importance of information access. And finally, we have a technological lead built on years of software investments that has proven to be extremely difficult for competitors to match." Telekom Malaysia's core business includes telephony services, customer premises equipment See CPE. , data and information access services, message and text services, mobile services, maritime services, international business services, and specialized network services. As part of Malaysia's Vision 2020, Telekom Malaysia intends to provide some of the world's most advanced telecommunications services by the year 2005. Malaysia Telekom's four major priorities are: increasing the telephone penetration rate, increasing internal productivity and efficiency through the effective use of advanced information technology; offering more value-added information services, including the establishment of a nationwide Integrated Services Digital Network Integrated services digital network (ISDN) A generic term referring to the integration of communications services transported over digital facilities such as wire pairs, coaxial cables, optical fibers, microwave radio, and satellites. (ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. ); and establishing an effective and comprehensive fiber optic cable Noun 1. fiber optic cable - a cable made of optical fibers that can transmit large amounts of information at the speed of light fibre optic cable transmission line, cable, line - a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power network. EMC Corporation, based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is the world's leading independent supplier of enterprise-wide intelligent 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, open systems and midrange environments. The company has offices worldwide, 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 and is included on the S&P 500 Index. For further information about EMC products and services, EMC's home page can be accessed at http://www.emc.com. CONTACT: David Farmer 508-435-1000 Ext. 7206 |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion