EMC Open Storage System showcased at Oracle's new advanced technology center; New center for government customers provides latest technology and real-world environments

Business Wire, Dec 13, 1995

HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 1995--EMC Corporation, the world's leading independent provider of open storage solutions, today announced that Oracle Corp. has chosen EMC's Symmetrix 3500 Integrated Cached Disk Array (ICDA) open storage system as a key component of its new Advanced Technology Center (ATC) for government customers, which opened today in Herndon, Virginia.

EMC joins Hewlett-Packard, Pyramid, Sequent and others teaming with Oracle in the state-of-the-art facility designed to allow government IT executives to see and test advanced technology solutions before purchasing them. The ATC was conceived by Oracle as a way of helping customers understand the latest enabling technologies in a real-world setting and how they can be successfully implemented.

"Intelligent storage is a cornerstone of many of the latest Oracle applications being showcased, including data warehousing and on-line transcation processing. These new, open applications are being deployed and will rapidly become the norm in government," said Ralph Kahn manager of Oracle's ATC. "EMC's Symmetrix has proven itself as the storage match for Oracle's high performance database software and its presence in the ATC will allow our government customers to simulate enterprise-scale solutions for specific problems."

The Symmetrix 3500 ICDA storage system, with a capacity of over one terabyte, will provide high-capacity, high-performance and high-reliability storage for a variety of custom demonstration applications such as very large databases (VLDB), data warehousing and high-volume transaction processing. The processor-independent Symmetrix storage system is ideally suited for these mission-critical applications and is able to simultaneously connect and provide storage to each of the server platforms running in the center.

"EMC's Symmetrix 5000 series is well known in government circles, providing mission-critical mainframe storage for some of this nation's most important applications. More and more applications are now running on open platforms and the Symmetrix 3000 series provides the secure, fast and scalable storage needed for these critical applications," said Neal Waddington, Senior Vice President of EMC's Open Storage Group. "When combined with leading software from Oracle, Symmetrix provides government users with effective solutions that will help organizations provide more services and run more efficiently."

EMC and Oracle signed a partnering agreement in June and are currently working together on a number of joint projects. Most recently, Oracle, EMC and Hewlett-Packard joined forces to create a world-record, four-terabyte data warehouse using Oracle 7.3 software, an HP9000 processor and four EMC Symmetrix 3500 storage systems. The system was unveiled in September at International Oracle Users' Week in Philadelphia and remains in use for testing by all three companies at EMC's Open Storage Group Research Lab in Milford, Mass.

EMC Corporation is a world leader in information storage and retrieval technology, designing systems for mainframes, midrange and open systems computing environments. The company has offices worldwide and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC. For further information on products and services, visit EMC's Home Page at http://www.emc.com.

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