Oracle Press Release

Navis Deploys Oracle’s Pillar Axiom Storage System To Support Virtualized Engineering and Development Environments

Logistics Technology Leader Optimizes Archive, Disaster Recovery with Oracle’s StorageTek Tape and Storage Archive Manager Software

Redwood Shores, Calif. – July 19, 2012

News Facts

Navis, part of Cargotec Corporation, and the global technology leader for managing the movement of cargo through terminals, has replaced its NetApp storage solutions withOracle’s Pillar Axiom 600 storage systems to support the engineering and development environments for its SPARCS N4 terminal operating system.

Moving to completely virtualize these environments to meet the demands of the business, Navis sought a high performance, scalable tiered storage solution to support both application development and database access.

Following a competitive evaluation, Navis selected Oracle’s Pillar Axiom storage systems over EMC, identifying its Quality of Service (QoS) capability and easy-to-use management capabilities as key factors in its decision.

The Pillar Axiom 600 storage system’s patented Quality of Service (QoS) architecture provides predictable performance and consolidation capabilities that have helped Navis meet ever increasing demands.

Additionally, by leveraging the replication and multi-system management features of the Pillar Axiom 600 storage system, Navis is able to maintain peak performance of its virtual machines, regardless of the types of environments it provisions.

Adding the Pillar Axiom 600 storage system to Navis’ existing Oracle footprint spanningOracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Database, Oracle VM, and Oracle’s x86 servers, the company is leveraging the benefits of Oracle’s hardware and software engineered together to better serve the needs of its customers.

Navis is using the combination of Oracle’s Sun Storage Archive Manager (SAM) software and Pillar Axiom 600 storage system along with Oracle’s StorageTek tape solutions to automate the management of its data, active to archive, at a significantly lower cost than with disk-only environments.

Oracle’s StorageTek T10000C Tape Drives and Oracle’s StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System are being employed to build out a robust disaster recovery solution. While the company evaluated other solutions, Navis chose Oracle’s tape drives for their high performance with significantly better ROI.

Navis plans to deploy an additional Pillar Axiom 600 Storage System in its Chennai, India data center, leveraging the Pillar Axiom MaxRep capabilities to replicate between Chennai and its data center in Oakland, Calif.

Supporting Quote

• “Navis was in the midst of transitioning to a virtualized environment and we needed a storage solution that would provide the performance and flexibility to meet the rapidly changing demands of our business and our customers,” said Stephen Schleiger, manager of Systems Engineering, Navis. “It was clear from the beginning that Oracle’s Pillar Axiom Storage Systems, with its QoS capabilities, would be able to provide the performance, scalability and manageability we need for the long term, and at much lower cost.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle Storage

Oracle’s Pillar Axiom 600

Oracle’s Sun Storage Archive Manager

Oracle’s StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive

Oracle’s StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System

Navis

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit http://www.oracle.com/.

University of Ottawa Medical Research Arm Eliminates Storage Boundaries with EMC Isilon

EMC Press Release

University of Ottawa Medical Research Arm Eliminates Storage Boundaries with EMC Isilon

Leading Medical Research Institute Grows Storage Capacity 10X, Increases Performance 400% and Reduces Storage Management Time

SEATTLE, Wash; - July 17, 2012

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced that the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa, an internationally recognized leader in medical research, has deployed EMC® Isilon® scale-out NAS to provide a storage environment that enables and empowers its staff to accelerate the advancement of medicine. Like many organizations today, the world-class microbiology and pathology facility needed to address capacity and performance challenges related to Big Data growth while also taking advantage of the opportunities Big Data creates. To transition its storage infrastructure so that it could meet these needs, the Faculty of Medicine turned to scale-out NAS.

Customer benefits:

• Enhanced productivity and efficiency—In the past, research was often limited by the amount of storage available to researchers. With EMC Isilon, the Faculty of Medicine can now provide each individual researcher with up to 250 gigabytes of storage capacity, 10 times the previous allocation with the option of adding more at the low, one-time cost of $1 per gigabyte. No longer hindered by storage limitations, researchers can focus on what they do best — pushing the envelope on medical breakthroughs.
• Increased performance—EMC Isilon performance scaled in lockstep with the Faculty of Medicine's data-intensive storage demands. Performance increased 400% as the Faculty of Medicine scaled out its EMC Isilon infrastructure.
• Plug and play ease-of-use—Since the Faculty of Medicine's IT team (Medtech) could "set it and forget it" with the EMC Isilon X-series, the 22-person team decreased storage management time and reallocated its resources to focus on more critical or forward-looking services.
• Improved file access—With EMC Isilon SnapShotIQ, researchers access and recover files from their home, office, iPad or any computer within the Faculty of Medicine from 90 days back, three times longer than the previous time allotment.

Customer Challenges and Solution:

The research wing of the Faculty of Medicine foresaw the need for increased capacity requirements and tasked its Medtech experts to evaluate the department's needs, to anticipate how much storage would be required in future years, and to develop a three-to-five-year plan for storage. After interviewing faculty staff, Medtech consistently found that the biggest needs were for more capacity and the ability to recover data for longer than 30 days back.

Previously, the Faculty of Medicine was using a tier one storage system for all of its research storage needs. The expense of running this system became a burden on the IT department, which had to limit 80 research groups to only 25 gigabytes of data each. Even if researchers wanted to pay more for additional storage, the Faculty of Medicine didn't have the infrastructure to provide it.

The University of Ottawa selected EMC Isilon because of its simple scalability, file recovery, easy provisioning and an architecture that enabled rapid sharing of common resources.

Since implementing EMC Isilon, the Faculty of Medicine has been able to eliminate the storage restraints that had hindered its researchers. Individual researchers are each allotted 250 gigabytes of storage – 10X the previous amount –with the ability to purchase more. Using EMC Isilon SnapShotIQ, researchers can recover and access files from any computer for up to 90 days. The scale-out NAS architecture has also allowed the research department to improve storage performance 400%.

The ability to quickly provision storage within minutes was critical because the Faculty of Medicine's research staff often needs large amounts of storage capacity provided immediately upon request, and EMC Isilon made it easy to meet these demands. The EMC Isilon system also enabled research groups to share terabytes worth of image and video data easily, empowering researchers with information they did not have access to prior to Isilon's deployment. Medtech was able to accomplish these feats and more without adding a dedicated storage person to the staff.

Customer Quote:

Jean-Ray Arseneau, Service Manager, University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine

"The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Ottawa is dedicated to groundbreaking medical research. With EMC Isilon, the storage boundaries have been blown wide open — we can for the first time, now scale our storage as research needs it, based on research demands."

About Isilon

Isilon, a division of EMC, is the global leader in scale-out NAS. We deliver powerful yet simple solutions for enterprises that want to manage their data, not their storage. Isilon's products are simple to install, manage and scale, at any size. And, unlike traditional enterprise storage, Isilon stays simple no matter how much storage is added, how much performance is required or how business needs change in the future. We're challenging enterprises to think differently about their storage, because when they do, they'll recognize there's a better, simpler way. Learn what we mean at http://www.isilon.com.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

Oracle Press Release

Oracle Demonstrates Strong Growth Across Its Storage Portfolio

Oracle Optimized Storage Helps Simplify IT, Increase Efficiency and Lower Costs

Redwood Shores, Calif. -- July 17, 2012

News Facts

Oracle today announced strong growth across its Optimized Storage portfolio spanning NAS, SAN and tape.

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliances sales have more than doubled over the past year, and have now been purchased by 40 percent of the Global Fortune 100.

Oracle’s Pillar Axiom Storage Systems have seen significant international growth since joining Oracle and have been adopted by more than 100 new customers in over 25 new countries.

Oracle has shipped over 2 exabytes of media for its StorageTek T10000C Tape Drives since its launch in January 2011, and doubled the capacity shipped in just six months.

Oracle executives Mark Hurd and John Fowler will discuss Oracle’s Optimized Storage Strategy and share new customer testimonials in an online event on July 18. Register here.

Supporting Quotes

“Oracle’s ability to engineer hardware and software together is clearly resonating with our customers who are using Oracle’s optimized storage to simplify their data centers and reduce storage related costs,” said John Fowler, executive vice president, Systems, Oracle. “The storage optimizations in Exadata Storage Servers are key to delivering significant performance improvements in our engineered systems, while the stunning performance of the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance, the immense consolidation capabilities of the Pillar Axiom, and efficiencies provided by Hybrid Columnar Compression are allowing our customers to dramatically reduce the amount of storage they buy and the amount they spend to buy it.”

"Oracle's Sun ZFS Storage Appliances have exceeded our every expectation, increasing our hosted ERP core application performance by over 35 percent across the board and providing us with a level of flexibility and analytics that allow us to be much more agile than ever before," said Skip Khasky, president, iDataWorks. "The Sun ZFS Storage Appliance has allowed us to consolidate our fibre channel block-level storage and our NAS appliance into one unified system, while significantly increasing performance and decreasing costs over our previous SAN and NetApp filer solution. Our bottom line is happy, our engineers are happy, and most importantly our customers are happy."

Supporting Resources

Oracle Optimized Storage

Register to attend the Oracle Optimized Storage Online Event on July 18

Oracle’s Sun ZFS Storage Appliance

Oracle’s Pillar Axiom Storage Systems

Oracle’s StorageTek Tape

Oracle Hardware on Facebook, Twitter

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit http://www.oracle.com.

EMC VPLEX Enables Major Law Firm to Migrate 250 Live Systems and Data in 15 to 20 Seconds with Zero Downtime

EMC Press Release

EMC VPLEX Enables Major Law Firm to Migrate 250 Live Systems and Data in 15 to 20 Seconds with Zero Downtime

Supports New Applications in 40 Minutes versus Several Weeks Required by Previous IT Environment

HOPKINTON, Mass. - July 9, 2012

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, a Chicago-based law firm with 600 attorneys, has standardized on EMC technologies and deployed EMC® VPLEX® virtual storage technology to transform to an active/active data center. Active/Active data centers enable customers to seamlessly pool two data centers together to enable mobility, availability and collaboration for their data without disruption. This new approach enables Katten to move the processing and storage of running Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange and other mission critical enterprise applications across data centers. Katten relies on VPLEX to relocate data and applications between data centers resulting in zero downtime and minimal engineering resources, dramatically faster delivery of IT resources, and affordable enterprise-class business continuity.

Customer Benefits:

• Improved Availability—VPLEX enabled Katten to migrate 250 live systems and 150 terabytes of data to a new data center location 25 miles away in 15 seconds and with zero downtime—a sharp contrast to the full week of downtime and one third more staff to achieve the same prior to EMC VPLEX.
• Business Agility—Katten is now able to respond quickly to business demands by delivering IT services to support new applications in 40 minutes compared to several weeks in its previous IT environment.
• Increased Efficiency—Katten has increased utilization of resources and performs maintenance and upgrades without downtime while employing an enterprise-class mission critical business continuity.

Customer Challenges and Solution:

As Katten moved and expanded its data centers to address the company's growth, its IT staff was consumed with planning and executing data migrations that involved hundreds of systems and would have required extended downtime—up to a full week for certain systems. Not only would these events disrupt their attorneys' ability to serve clients, but it would have also diminished IT's ability to respond to fast-changing business requirements.

To significantly improve data protection and business agility, Katten deployed EMC VPLEX Metro in its production data center and a disaster recovery facility. Katten also leverages VPLEX to create a true active/active data center, which balanced workloads across multiple sites for optimal resource utilization and delivers new IT services faster and more efficiently.

Katten runs a full suite of enterprise applications, including Microsoft SQL Server stretch clusters and Exchange, as well as 200 VMware® virtual machines. Approximately 85-90% of its infrastructure is virtualized with VMware vSphere™, with VMware vSphere vMotion™ to move live virtual machines between its two data centers.

Customer Quotes:

Alexander Diaz, Enterprise Development Manager, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

"For a major data center migration, we were able to move a running virtual machine across our cloud to the new data center 25 miles away in about 15 to 20 seconds with VPLEX and vMotion. With VPLEX's capabilities, I have confidence that we could move the data across an even further distances should our data center needs evolve over time."

"VPLEX kept the storage in synch in both data centers. Four engineers moved 30 to 40 virtual machines the first weekend and then gradually moved over 250 systems during the next three weeks. The servers stayed up the whole time and no one in the firm knew that we had migrated our entire data center. The 'old' way would have meant days or up to a week of downtime for certain systems and a dozen engineers working around the clock."

"VPLEX has allowed us to raise the bar and provide our firm with enterprise-class business continuity—and a truly active/active data center model. Using the VPLEX for our virtual machines and stretch clusters, we can do maintenance and upgrades on hardware whenever it's needed without any downtime. We're also getting more utilization out of our infrastructure by balancing workloads across multiple sites."

"When someone in the firm needs a new application, we're expected to respond quickly. EMC technologies along with virtualization enable us to bring up a new system in about 40 minutes—start to finish. Before, it would take weeks. Sometimes our users think it is magic, so you could say VPLEX gave us a special wand to get the job done."

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about EMC VPLEX
• Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and ECN

About EMC VPLEX

EMC VPLEX is a unique virtual storage technology that enables information in the cloud, public, private or hybrid, to be shared, accessed and moved within, across and between data centers, federating various storage systems into a single resource. Customers can achieve transparent workload mobility and availability, both locally and over distance, through VPLEX's simultaneous access to storage systems at geographically separate sites.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

EMC Press Release

New EMC VMAX Enterprise Storage Family Accelerates Transformation to the Hybrid Cloud

EMC VMAX Family Gets More Powerful, More Trusted, and Smarter with Significant New Platform Enhancements; New VMAX 40K Enterprise Storage System Delivers Up to 3X Performance and More than 2X Usable Capacity than Any Other Offering in the Industry

Contacts

Katryn McGaughey 508-293-7717 katryn.mcgaughey@emc.com

EMC World 2012—LAS VEGAS—May 21, 2012

News Summary:

• EMC today announced the new EMC® VMAX™ Family of enterprise storage arrays, a lineup that offers the world's most comprehensive range of Powerful, Trusted and Smart storage solutions for enterprises of all sizes as they build Hybrid Clouds.
• The new family includes the revolutionary new VMAX 40K, defining an entirely new class of enterprise storage with up-to 3X more performance, and more than 2X more usable capacity than any other offering in the industry. The VMAX 40K also offers new configurations using 2.5" SAS drives and MLC (eMLC) Flash drives.
• The new Unisphere® for VMAX streamlines and simplifies the operational management of the VMAX Family.
• New Federated Tiered Storage (FTS) for VMAX, a new, no-charge feature through which external arrays can be used either as capacity pools for FAST VP (Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools) or managed as pass-through devices.
• FAST VP for VMAX now supports IBM System z mainframes and IBM i servers.
• New EMC RecoverPoint™ integration across the entire VMAX Family.
• New enhancements to Enginuity™, the VMAX operating software, is available across all members of the EMC VMAX Family, plus existing EMC VMAX and EMC VMAXe arrays sold since 2009.

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At EMC World 2012, EMC (NYSE:EMC) today announced the new EMC VMAX Family, consisting of the VMAX 10K, VMAX 20K and the newest member of the family, the VMAX 40K. The new EMCVMAX Family is a comprehensive lineup of enterprise storage arrays, all built upon the industry-leading Virtual Matrix Architecture first introduced in April 2009. Complementing the new EMC VMAX Family is a host of new software capabilities that streamline operations and extend the market-proven VMAX to new hosts and applications, while integrating customers' existing storage assets into an integrated and unified pool of storage resources. Combined, the scalable EMC VMAX Family offers the most powerful, most trusted, smartest and most efficient enterprise information infrastructure for deploying Hybrid Clouds.

The EMC VMAX Family is anchored by the new VMAX 40K, a revolutionary new product that establishes new maximums for performance, capacity and scale in the enterprise storage market. Delivering as much as 3X more performance and 2X the usable capacity of any other enterprise storage product, the VMAX 40K is optimized to support hyper-consolidation of the world's most demanding big data, transaction processing, analytics and cloud computing applications.

Customers are increasingly moving toward a Hybrid Cloud model—which delivers the flexibility and choice to store and serve information within the cloud, while maintaining control over their mission critical applications. The Hybrid Cloud is delivering customers the opportunity to run their businesses smarter and more efficiently. The new EMC VMAX Family, and enhancements to Enginuity, are purpose-built to be the foundation for enterprises of all sizes as they transform their IT environments to take advantage of the Hybrid Cloud.

With today's announcement EMC is delivering:

• More Powerful
  • Leveraging up to 32 2.8GHz Intel® Xeon® 6-core processors, as much as 2TB of mirrored (1TB usable) and ECC-protected DDR3 DRAM, and twice as much internal fabric bandwidth as the original EMC VMAX, the new VMAX 40K delivers unmatched levels of performance and scale. With more than 3X the sustained cache-miss bandwidth and 2X the total IOPS than any competing array, the EMC VMAX 40K is truly in a class of its own.
  • VMAX 40K supports up to 4PB of usable capacity, 2X the VMAX 20K's 2PB usable and nearly 3X the 1.5PB usable capacity of the VMAX 10K. The new High Density option for the VMAX 40K utilizes 2.5" SAS drives to support up to 3.2PBu in a footprint that is a 1/3 smaller and uses 1/3 less power than the equivalent configuration using 3.5" drives.
  • New 2.5" eMLC (Multi-Level Cell) Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD) deliver the performance, reliability and life expectancy of SLC-based EFDs, at a lower price than comparable 3.5" SLC EFDs. Available initially only on VMAX 40K high-density configurations, these new eMLC EFDs allow customers to build FAST VP configurations that cost-effectively utilize more Flash and more nearline capacity to improve both $/GB and $/IOPS.
• More Trusted
  • Federated Tiered Storage (FTS) provides active data integrity checking on all data in external arrays to protect against silent data corruption. Such corruption can occur in arrays that do not provide integrity validation of their own. EMC VMAX and EMC VNX families natively implement stringent integrity assurances—functionality that is exclusive to EMC.
  • FAST hinting to remote replica devices ensures proper data layout for optimal performance in the event of a fail-over / fail-back event—functionality that is exclusive to EMC.
  • EMC RecoverPoint for EMC VMAX delivers enterprise-class heterogeneous local and remote replication of EMC VMAX with point-in-time recovery. This provides t he flexibility to replicate to/from heterogeneous storage combined with point-in-time recovery for the entire EMC VMAX Family—as well as EMC VPLEX virtual storage ( see related news). This functionality is exclusive to EMC.
• Smarter
  • The new Federated Tiered Storage enables customers to consolidate and simplify management and operations of their disparate storage assets. By putting heterogeneous storage arrays behind EMC VMAX, customers can now use trusted Symmetrix SRDF and TimeFinder software for business continuity, FAST VP for improved performance, and others to extend the life and value of existing storage arrays in the data center.
  • FAST VP for mainframe count-key data (CKD) volumes, affording the performance, economic and scale benefits of FAST VP to mainframe-based workloads and applications.
  • Virtual Provisioning and FAST VP for IBM i (D910 formatted devices)—prior limited to scaling performance with only 15K rpm devices, EMC VMAX is the first storage platform to bring the benefits of thin provisioning and automated tiering to IBM i customers. This functionality is exclusive to EMC.
  • The latest version of EMC ProSphere® delivers the ability to manage storage, server and network resources through a single pane of glass. ProSphere now reports on host capacity use by FAST policy to enhance reporting in FAST VP environments. ProSphere will also show external capacity imported through FTS providing a single management console for analyzing and reporting on all capacity consumed across the data center including VMAX and external federated capacity.
• More Efficient
  • The new Unisphere for EMC VMAX is an advanced management interface that simplifies and streamlines storage operations and management while providing a common look and experience across the entire EMC VMAX Family as well as EMC VNX Family, EMC VPLEX, and RecoverPoint products. Unisphere for EMC VMAX is easier, faster, and more intuitive, while providing EMC VMAX administrators with comprehensive real-time utilization and performance monitoring.
  • New ProSphere integrated support for FAST VP utilization monitoring and policy-based charge-back—functionality that is exclusive to EMC.

All of these new products, features and capabilities are shipping now and will be introduced to EMC World attendees through a combination of keynote addresses, engineering-led product sessions, trade show demonstrations and hands-on Labs running on EMC's Demo Cloud.

Customer Quote:

Fabio Grignani, Deputy General Manager & COO, at SIA"SIA is a European leader in technology infrastructures and services for financial and central banking institutions, corporations and public administration bodies for payments, online banking, network services and capital markets. SIA annually manages nearly 8.1 billion transactions relating to card, collections and payments—on overage this adds up to approximately 63 million cards, 22.3 billion transactions on financial markets and we also carried 11.2 thousand billion bytes of data over our network. Processing millions of transactions everyday means that performance, availability and reliability in our mainframe storage environment is central to our IT strategy. Together, the new VMAX 40K and FAST VP for Mainframe will help SIA in achieving dynamic performance optimization of our Flash tier—automatically. EMC is enabling SIA to make better use of all tiered capacity for unmatched performance gains, which means we can focus on continuing to deliver world-class service to our customers."

Analyst Quote:

Benjamin Woo, Program Vice President, Worldwide Storage System, IDC"EMC is yet again setting the bar in high end storage with the VMAX 40K and these new software capabilities. As customers continue to virtualize their IT environments and move toward cloud—particularly with Hybrid Clouds—innovations like VMAX 40K, FTS, and simplified management capabilities are central to achieving the level of performance, data protection and management customers are facing."

EMC Executive Quote:

Brian Gallagher, President, Enterprise Storage Division at EMC"The Hybrid Cloud and Big Data are two transformative mega-trends in the industry today. More and more IT professionals are embracing these trends to make their businesses run smarter and more efficiently. With today's news, the VMAX Family is building upon its existing portfolio of high end solutions, and delivering new hardware and software capabilities that are purpose-built for these Hybrid Cloud environments. As the IT industry embarks on one of its most transformative eras with the onset of cloud and Big Data, the market-leading VMAX Family continues to set the pace for the high end storage market."

Additional Resources

• Chucks Blog
• Managed View Blog
• Watch the SIA Customer Video
• Learn more about the VMAX Family
• IDC Technology Spotlight
• New Enginuity Features
• FAST VP for Mainframe Solution Overview
• VMAX 40K in Oracle Environment Solution Overview
• Connect with EMC via Twitter,  Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found atwww.EMC.com.

EMC Press Release

EMC and VMware Extend Partnership to Develop, Sell and Deliver Storage Analytics for VNX

EMC VNX to Integrate with VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite; Deliver Actionable Storage Analytics for Improved Performance, Faster Issue Resolution and Storage Planning

Contacts

Megan Lane (781) 426-6382  megan.lane@emc.com

Ken Lotich (650) 427-1911  klotich@vmware.com

EMC World 2012, LAS VEGAS—May 21, 2012

News Summary:

• EMC ® and VMware will work together to integrate VNX ® storage intelligence with the patented analytics of VMware vCenter ™ Operations Management Suite.
• EMC will extend its VNX storage software portfolio with the addition of the EMC Storage Analytics Suite that is based on VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite.
• EMC's VNX unified storage systems will also be integrated with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite via the new EMC VNX Connector, enabling a single, end-to-end view of IT infrastructures with EMC VNX storage.

Follow EMC World Online

• Online: To track the latest EMC World 2012 happenings and view live general session streaming videos, visit www.emcworld.com
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Full Story

At EMC World 2012, EMC (NYSE:EMC) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today extended their long-standing partnership with a new sales and development agreement designed to deliver offerings that combine comprehensive storage intelligence with the analytics and infrastructure visualization of VMware vCenter Operations. As part of the expanded relationship, the two companies will deliver:

• EMC VNX Storage Analytics Suite, based on VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite, will offer capabilities such as storage performance and capacity optimization and SLA improvement through analytics and diagnostics.
• EMC VNX Connector will provide VNX storage metrics and configurable dashboards within VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite.

Customers today are evolving in the way they manage their IT infrastructures as more organizations virtualize their business-critical applications. With this shift, organizations must address siloed infrastructure management and high end-user expectations of performance and uptime, as well as increase optimization and efficiency while reducing costs. With today's news, EMC and VMware have jointly developed and will deliver solutions to help with this transition.

Technology Highlights

Introduces Storage Performance and Capacity Analytics

• The EMC VNX Storage Analytics Suite enables storage operations management with customizable, intuitive dashboards. It will support block and file storage as well as displayEMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST ™ ) Cache configuration and performance, and FAST VP (FAST for Virtual Pools) tiers and policies.

Extends Visibility Across IT Infrastructure

• VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite provides holistic visibility and understanding of the virtual environment leading to optimization across compute, storage and network. New integration with EMC VNX Connector for VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite will marry VNX storage metrics with VMware vCenter Operations capabilities such as intuitive, configurable dashboards with drill down, health alerts and patented analytics.

Improves Storage Efficiencies and Faster Troubleshooting and Resolution

• These solutions will offer deep storage intelligence and analytics that enable proactive storage performance and capacity optimization across physical and virtual environments. Additionally, customers can maintain service levels by quickly troubleshooting performance abnormalities and immediately remediating errors.

EMC Executive Quotes:

Ramin Sayar, Vice President and General Manager, Products, Cloud and Virtualization Management, VMware "The powerful combination of EMC storage intelligence and VMware's vCenter™ Operations Management Suite will offer automated optimization and simplicity for our joint customers. Together, these solutions can help drive increased storage performance and infrastructure management in highly dynamic virtual and cloud environments, as well as physical data centers, while delivering operational cost benefits. With this integrated cross-domain solution, organizations of all sizes can proactively manage their overall infrastructure system health, as they continue to automate and transform their IT infrastructure."

Rich Napolitano, President, EMC Unified Storage Division"The benefits of total transparency into storage systems, in both physical and virtualized infrastructures, are staggering. VNX Storage Analytics Suite is designed to capitalize on this transparency by offering simplified storage management, optimized performance and easily maintained service levels for unprecedented efficiency. This holistic view of assets, combined with storage metrics including FAST Cache and FAST VP, will optimize both efficiency and performance—critical elements of any IT strategy."

Availability:

The EMC VNX Storage Analytics Suite and EMC VNX Connector for VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite are expected to be generally available in the second half of 2012.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found atwww.EMC.com.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

EMC Press Release

EMC Atmos Transforms Big Data Storage by Simplifying Global Scale and Expanding Cloud Access

Securely Manage a 100 Petabyte Cloud with 50% Performance Improvements and New Cloud Accelerators

Contacts

Ed Luboja 203-210-7404  Edward.luboja@emc.com

EMC World 2012—LAS VEGAS—May 21, 2012

News Highlights:

• EMC today announced new EMC® Atmos® enhancements that deliver breakthroughs in simplifying the way service providers and enterprises manage large, globally distributed environments.
• Manage 100 PB cloud as a single system across distributed sites; greater than 50 percent faster performance for large objects; 3x improved system visibility with expanded monitoring for globally distributed storage environments; 90 percent reduced upgrade time - with no service disruption.
• New Atmos Cloud Accelerators provide new methods of simplifying cloud adoption and transform service provider and enterprise cloud access by making it easier for end users, developers, and applications to use an Atmos-based cloud. Cloud Accelerators enable users to work in their native environment, expand functionality for developers, and make it easier to move traditional applications to the cloud.

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Full Story

At EMC World 2012, EMC (NYSE:EMC) today announced a suite of enhancements to the EMC Atmos Cloud platform that transform the way service providers and enterprises manage Big Data in large, globally-distributed cloud storage environments. EMC also announced new Atmos Cloud Accelerators that make it even easier and faster to move data in and out of Atmos-powered clouds.

Each Atmos storage cloud provides hundreds of thousands of subscribers with access to their data from around the globe, from any device at anytime. With over 40 global service providers in more than 70 locations, Atmos-powered clouds are leading the industry in creating a global, easily accessible storage footprint.

According to the 451 Group, the public cloud storage services market will grow to almost $6 billion by 2015 with a CAGR of 47% 1. As cloud adoption accelerates, service providers and enterprises are facing a host of new challenges in the way they scale and manage their cloud storage operations. The onslaught of mobile device use, application development and rise of Big Data and public cloud use bring additional requirements for value added services and rapid global cloud access. Unlike competing platforms, EMC Atmos delivers the on-demand scale, access and broad functionality needed to keep service providers and enterprises ahead of these rapidly evolving requirements, speeding the adoption of cloud and helping customers realize the objectives behind their cloud deployments.

New Product Highlights

Global Scale:

• New networking enhancements improve performance, availability and security. These capabilities deliver greater than 50 percent faster read and write performance for large objects. New segmentation and security features provide the ability to separate management and data traffic for users and administrators.
• New Atmos Event Manager improves system visibility by 3x and provides enhanced alerting and aggregated logging at the system, data center and node level while providing near real-time visibility into overall system activity and performance. Historical monitoring information has been expanded to now include visibility at the year, week and hour level.
• New upgrade technology speeds node upgrades in globally distributed environments by 90 percent and enables businesses to remain 100 percent accessible with greatly reduced maintenance windows. Non -disruptive service upgrade capabilities are essential for enterprises and service providers whose businesses are open around the clock.

Cloud Accelerators:

• End users have new options to access an Atmos cloud from their native environment. The suite of web access tools is expanded to include Google Chrome and HTML5 and complement the existing Firefox browser tool. Atmos GeoDrive for Windows is now internationalized to support worldwide languages for end users.
• Developers have a new set of capabilities in the Atmos API to rapidly deliver new functionality in their applications. These include secure single-use access for anonymous users, capacity management APIs to enable quotas, and the ability to set the identifier for an Atmos object. The Atmos Software Development Kit (SDK) is expanded to include Google Android support.
• Traditional applications have new tools and capabilities to move their content into a cloud environment. Customers with Centera® integrated applications can carry forward their rich set of Centera metadata into any Atmos cloud and apply Atmos data lifecycle policies based on this metadata. AtmosSync, a new open source migration tool, accelerates migration of file system content to the cloud.

Availability

New EMC Atmos product enhancements are expected to be available in the second half of 2012.

Customer Quote:

 Chris Patterson, Vice President Product Management, Navisite"NaviSite selected EMC Atmos to power its new NaviCloud Intelligent Storage platform which enables enterprises to store, manage and protect distributed, unstructured content at scale. EMC Atmos provided the complete solution that enabled us to rapidly deliver a host of scalable and secure cloud services to market."

Analyst Quote:

Simon Robinson, Research Vice President, 451 Research "One of the major trends we are seeing in the market is that scalable object storage is starting to go mainstream, driving the need for enterprises and service providers to be more agile in the way they integrate it into their existing IT environment. EMC Atmos provides the management, security and control tools necessary to make it easier to scale and set up new services quickly. In addition, we are seeing mobile devices become more and more prevalent as application development moves to the cloud. Scalable object storage is increasingly being considered as part of the underlying infrastructure as it is often a better fit to manage the demands of scale, performance and access requirements."

EMC Executive Quote:

 Mike Feinberg, General Manager and Senior Vice President, EMC Cloud Infrastructure Group "Rapid cloud adoption and Big Data are driving exponentially greater consumption of cloud storage. As service providers and enterprises scale their infrastructures to keep pace, they face numerous challenges in managing ever larger, globally distributed cloud environments. With today's announcements, EMC demonstrates that the Atmos Cloud Platform can scale massively, while making it simple for our service provider and enterprise customers to manage their expanding cloud environments."

Additional Resources

• Atmos Cloud Delivery Platform Data Sheet
• GeoDrive Data Sheet
• Follow EMC Atmos on Twitter , LinkedIn
• View the Atmos Social Media/Blog
• View the "Many Faces of Atmos" video here

¹ 451 Research, Market Monitor Snapshot: Storage-as-a-Service, April 2, 2012

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