EMC wins $6.9 million sale to Galileo International; World's largest computerized travel reservations provider uses EMC Symmetrix computer storage systems to process 2,000 reservations per second.Corporation, the world's leading independent provider of intelligent information storage solutions, today announced that Galileo International has purchased $6.9 million worth of Symmetrix 5000 Family Integrated Cached Disk Array (ICDA ICDA abbr. International Classification of Diseases, Adapted for Use in the United States ) systems. Galileo International, the world's largest provider of computerized travel reservation services, uses 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. systems to process 2,000 reservations per second. Galileo, with U.S. headquarters in Chicago and data center and systems development groups in Denver, Colo., first became an EMC customer in 1993. With this latest purchase, Galileo now uses nearly 60 EMC storage systems in its data processing centers. EMC Symmetrix was chosen ahead of IBM RAMAC (Random Access Method of Accounting and Control) The first hard disk computer, introduced by IBM in 1956. All 50 of its 24" platters held a total of five million characters! RAMAC was half computer, half tabulator. for the latest Galileo order. "Both system performance and availability are showing significant and ongoing improvement at Galileo as we continue to deploy EMC storage," said Paul Quade, Galileo's Director of Capital Planning and Resource Management. "These improvements are critical in an industry that must constantly adapt to new and changing competition, ranging from the airlines to the Internet. With EMC's advanced software, high-quality hardware, and disk mirroring capabilities, we are able to provide our customers with very fast response times and around-the-clock, reliable access to our services." EMC Symmetrix storage is attached via high-speed fiber-optic ESCON (Enterprise Systems CONnection) An IBM S/390 fiber-optic channel that transfers 17 Mbytes/sec over distances up to 60 km depending on connection type. ESCON allows peripheral devices to be located across large campuses and metropolitan areas. connections to IBM and Amdahl mainframes running MVS and Transaction Processing Facility (operating system) Transaction Processing Facility - (TPF) A real-time mainframe operating system released by IBM around 1976. TPF is particularly suited to organisations dealing in very high I/O message switching and large global networks. (TPF) operating systems. Using EMC's Multi-Path Lock Facility (MPLF) software, TPF-based computers share Symmetrix storage via multiple paths in an online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. environment. The MPLF feature further increases performance and flexibility for Galileo, while maintaining data integrity. "EMC also has impressed us with the time and effort they invest in getting feedback from their customers," added Quade. "Not only are they good listeners, but in a remarkably short amount of time, we've seen the results of our recommendations show up at EMC in the form of new features, capabilities, and other improvements, such as TPF modifications." "More and more, industry and technology leaders, such as Galileo, are turning high-performance EMC storage into a significant competitive advantage," said Richard Blaschke, EMC's Vice President, Enterprise Systems Group. "Leaders like Galileo understand the value of purchasing "best-of-breed" information storage solutions based on the positive impact that they bring to the bottom-line business." 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. CONTACT: Dave Farmer (508) 435-1000 |
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