Informix Software Joins EMC's E-Infostructure Developers Program.Business Editors MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2001 Informix Software and 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. Form Alliance to Deliver Optimized Backup and Maximum Availability of Informix Software Databases Informix(R) Software, the database company(TM), an independent operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. of Informix Corporation (Nasdaq:IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ), today announced that it has joined EMC Corporation's (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :EMC) E-Infostructure(TM) Developers Program(TM) (EIDP EIDP End-Item Data Package (government contracting) EIDP Early Intervention Developmental Profile EIDP European Institute for Democratic Participation EIDP E I DuPont de Nemours Company ). As part of this program, the two companies have entered into a joint engineering and marketing alliance to ensure the interoperability of Informix Software's flagship enterprise database products with EMC's world leading information storage systems and software. The alliance has already yielded the development of best practices for Informix Dynamic Server(TM) (IDS) 9.21, the company's highly extensible and scalable online transaction platform, with EMC TimeFinder and 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. Remote Data Facility (SRDF SRDF Symmetrix Remote Data Facility SRDF Symmetric Remote Data Facility ). Used in tandem Adv. 1. in tandem - one behind the other; "ride tandem on a bicycle built for two"; "riding horses down the path in tandem" tandem with IDS, TimeFinder and SRDF provide organizations with extremely fast and effective ways for splitting and reassigning mirrored images of an IDS database for use on other hosts, for synchronization of replication systems, and for business recovery. "In bringing together the proven scalability and extensibility of Informix Dynamic Server with the industry leading information storage technology of EMC, we are able to offer our joint customers a significant advantage in effectively managing and protecting their data," said Brian Staff, vice president of marketing, Informix Software. "Informix Software intends to make the most of joining EMC's E-Infostructure Developers Program, as it broadens our opportunities to maximize the strengths of the database management systems we deliver to our customers." IDS users who add TimeFinder and SRDF to their installation will realize gains in performance and availability, and in turn lower their operational costs. TimeFinder and SRDF improve the performance of IDS by ensuring that the data backup process does not compete for host 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. , 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 , or network resources on the production machine. Availability is enhanced because the addition of TimeFinder and SRDF enables an IDS database to be restored from a local or remote mirror, while also allowing secondary host-testing using exact copies of the production database. Because mirrored images of databases can be quickly split and reassigned under this configuration, and external restores can be performed in minutes rather than hours, users are able to backup their IDS databases more frequently, ensuring that they have the most current snapshot possible of their data. "Ensuring the interoperability of our products bolsters the ability of EMC and Informix Software to meet the demanding and quickly evolving data management and information storage needs of our shared customers," said Linda Wright, senior director of global alliances, EMC. "Our relationship with Informix dates back to when we launched our open storage initiative. Informix's membership in the EMC E-Infostructure Developers Program intensifies our work together, and provides the means from which to build a consistent stream of additional collaborative solutions between our companies." About Informix Software Informix Software, the database company, is a leading provider of database-management systems for data warehousing, transaction processing and e-business applications. With more than 100,000 customers worldwide, Informix Software delivers high-performance database systems in markets including retail, financial services, government, health care, manufacturing, media and publishing, and telecommunications. For more information, visit the Informix Web site at www.informix.com. Informix Corporation and 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) recently announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for IBM to acquire the assets of Informix Software in a cash transaction valued at $1 billion. The acquisition is subject to Informix shareholder and regulatory approvals, and is expected to close in the third quarter of 2001. (c)2001 Informix Corporation. All rights reserved. The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its affiliates, one or more of which may be registered in the U.S. or other jurisdictions: Informix(R), the database company(TM) and Informix Dynamic Server(TM). EMC is a registered trademark, and E-Infostructure is a trademark of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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