EMC and NCR unveil record-breaking eleven-terabyte data warehouse; Industry leaders to demonstrate record size system in Tokyo using Symmetrix Storage Systems, WorldMark Servers and Teradata Database

Business Wire, Feb 27, 1996

TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 1996--EMC Corporation and NCR Corporation are demonstrating a record 11-terabyte data warehouse here tomorrow. The two strategic partners created the massive Teradata relational database system using their standard storage, software and processor technology. Eleven terabytes is the equivalent of 2.75 billion pages of text, or enough information to fill 220,000 four-drawer filing cabinets.

EMC and NCR (formerly AT&T GIS) will showcase the commercially configured decision support system at an event in Tokyo, where NCR will introduce its new WorldMark 5100M Massively Parallel Processing Server (MPP) to the Asian market. Last November, EMC and NCR signed an OEM agreement for NCR to market and sell EMC's Symmetrix 3000 Integrated Cached Disk Arrays (ICDA) as the high-end open storage platform for NCR's new WorldMark series of servers.

As part of that ongoing relationship, which involves joint development efforts and technology exchanges, NCR purchased 10 fully configured EMC Symmetrix 3500 open storage systems for this demonstration. Each high-performance Symmetrix 3500 is capable of storing more than one terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of data in just 17 square feet, and all are connected to an NCR WorldMark 5100M server running NCR's Teradata relational database.

The database was created in Tokyo and simulates a manufacturing company's order entry and sales history records. NCR has connected 50 workstations to the configuration, generating a volume of transactions equivalent to 3,000 users querying the data warehouse. NCR's Teradata database system currently holds the record in providing the largest production data warehouse installations in the world, including the single largest commercial data processing system.

"This demonstration proves that the WorldMark 5100M can not only scale the terabyte, it can scale 11 of them. The combination of industry-leading systems like WorldMark servers, Teradata databases and Symmetrix storage systems allows our customers to build and manage decision support solutions that will grow with their businesses," said Mark Hurd, Vice President of Marketing, Computer Systems Group at NCR. "Through our partnership with EMC, we're able to offer the only intelligent storage solutions that are the performance match for our new line of WorldMark servers."

Said Neal Waddington, EMC's Senior Vice President of Strategic Alliances, "The market for large-scale data warehousing has exploded and EMC sees tremendous potential in this trend. High performance intelligent storage is a strategic cornerstone of these applications which require fast access to large amounts of data.

"The true beneficiaries of the partnership between NCR and EMC are the customers who are able to leverage this proven technology to gain a significant competitive advantage," said Waddington. "This solution allows them to efficiently gather and rapidly analyze the tremendous amounts of information they generate about their customers every day."

EMC is both the world's largest provider of information storage systems to the IBM mainframe market and is the world's leading independent storage provider in the UNIX RAID market. According to market research firm IDC, NCR is the leader in the strategic business systems market with a 50 percent share for MPP decision support.

About NCR

NCR -- formerly known as AT&T Global Information Solutions -- is the leader in delivering commercial, open computer systems for transaction processing and decision-support solutions to customers in all industries. The company also develops industry-specific platforms and solutions for customers in the Retail, Financial and Telecommunications industries.

The company's recently announced WorldMark enterprise servers provide data mart- to-data warehousing scalability. WorldMark servers enable customers to move from open symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) to massively parallel processing (MPP) systems, while maintaining their initial SMP investments.

More information on NCR can be found on the World Wide Web: http://www.ncr.com

About EMC

EMC Corporation, based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is a world leader in enterprise-wide information storage and retrieval technology, designing systems for mainframe, midrange and open systems environments. The company has offices worldwide and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC. For further information about EMC products and services, EMC's home page is at http://www.emc.com.

CONTACT: Rick Lacroix, EMC

(508) 435-1000 ext.7261

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David Sacash, NCR

(513) 445-4168