HOPKINTON, Mass., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure, today announced it will offer
comprehensive technology support for VMware Site Recovery Manager. VMware
Site Recovery Manager is a pioneering new product for disaster recovery
management and automation. Part of VMware's industry-leading suite of
management and automation products for the datacenter, VMware Site Recovery
Manager simplifies business continuity planning and testing, and reduces the
risk and complexity associated with implementing disaster recovery.
VMware Site Recovery Manager, when deployed in conjunction with EMC's
industry leading(1) portfolio of replication software, will enable customers
to rapidly bring their virtualized servers and mission critical information
online at a secondary site.
After thorough testing and qualification, new storage replication adapters
for EMC's replication software, including EMC(R) SRDF(R) (Symmetrix Remote
Data Facility), EMC Celerra(R) Replicator, EMC MirrorView(TM) and EMC
RecoverPoint, will be integrated with Site Recovery Manager to ensure rapid,
reliable, manageable and affordable data recovery in VMware environments.
EMC replication solutions that protect physical and virtual storage assets
are widely deployed around the world and have a proven track record of
protecting, replicating and ensuring the availability of business-critical
data and applications. An added benefit of this joint solution is the ability
to automate and test EMC and VMware disaster recovery capabilities to ensure
proper automated fail-over of their infrastructure. The technology
integration and testing completed to ensure that EMC replication software is
interoperable with VMware Site Recovery Manager is part of EMC's ongoing
commitment to offer complete support for VMware environments and add greater
value to mutual customers. EMC and VMWare have worked together during the
VMware Site Recovery Manager development and beta programs to ensure that
customers will be able to deploy VMware for Site Recovery Manager with EMC's
replication software.
With EMC integration support for Site Recovery Manager, companies and
organizations of all sizes can leverage their existing EMC information
infrastructure investments to enable simplified automated failover and
recovery capabilities for their VMware environments. Whether it is large data
centers using SRDF to replicate between sites, mid-size environments being
replicated via IP (internet protocol) using Celerra Replicator or MirrorView
or the need for network-based array-independent replication via RecoverPoint,
EMC offers customers a comprehensive range of business continuity solutions.
"Virtualization has become a critical element in the data center and
disaster recovery is always top of mind amongst customers deploying virtual
environments," said EMC's Frank Hauck, Executive Vice President, Global
Marketing and Customer Satisfaction. "Tight integration with VMware Site
Recovery Managers enables EMC replication solutions to provide more value in
VMware deployments. Customers of all sizes with both EMC and non-EMC
networked storage will be able to leverage EMC's decades of experience in
business continuity with the new EMC replication adapters to enjoy the
benefits of Site Recovery Manager's server and array fail-over process."
"Broad support of VMware Site Recovery Manager illustrates EMC's
commitment to enabling customers like Hosted Solutions to easily take
advantage of new technology while protecting existing investments in our EMC
technology," said Brian Baker, Vice President, Sales at Hosted Solutions, a
leading provider of high quality Data Center and Managed Hosting services that
maintain and protect customers' mission-critical IT systems and applications
and a beta tester for VMware Site Recovery Manager. "Having the choice to use
EMC's industry-leading replication products with VMWare Site Recovery Manager
for a virtual disaster recovery plan is very compelling. The integration
between EMC RecoverPoint and VMware Site Recovery Manager enabled us to
successfully conduct non-disruptive tests of our failover plans both onsite
and remotely."
Customers will benefit from continued investment protection for existing
infrastructure with heterogeneous support for Site Recovery Manager to
implement a robust solution that ensures data integrity of their VMware
virtual environments. Organizations with non-EMC network storage systems can
take advantage of the RecoverPoint storage adapter, which is the only
heterogeneous replication product integrated with Site Recovery Management
today.
"VMware Site Recovery Manager and EMC's data replication products ensure a
fully supported and effective disaster recovery solution," said Parag Patel,
Vice President, Alliances at VMware. "Our joint offerings protect customers'
EMC technology investments, enable them to use EMC's broad portfolio of
recovery solutions and, most importantly, ensure business continuity with
instant failover of their servers, applications and data."
New EMC consulting and implementation services around VMware Site Recovery
Manager will be available as part of the product release. EMC will also
provide best practices with documented reference architectures, installation
and optimization guides, and proven EMC product interoperability with other
vendors' products through EMC E-Lab(TM) testing and VMware certification.
The storage adapters will be available from VMware for free to customers
with a VMware Site Recovery Manager license when the product is generally
available later during second quarter of 2008.
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider
of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable
organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value
from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be
found at www.EMC.com.
(1) IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker September 2007
EMC, SRDF, and Celerra are registered trademarks and MirrorView and E-Lab
are trademarks of EMC Corporation and its subsidiaries. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the
Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those
projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk
factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic
or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology
spending; (iii) risks associated with acquisitions and investments, including
the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving
anticipated synergies; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to
pricing pressures and new product introductions; (v) the relative and varying
rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture
of product and services revenues; (vi) component and product quality and
availability; (vii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of
customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and
market change; (viii) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (ix) war or
acts of terrorism; (x) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified
employees; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; and (xii) other one-time
events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time
in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC
disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after
the date of this release.
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