EverGreen Data Continuity Partners With EMC Corporation to Provide Expanded Data Protection Services; Partnership Provides Customers Third-Party Expertise and Best-in-Class Solutions

Business Wire, Feb 28, 2000

Business/Technology Editors

NEWBURY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 28, 2000

EverGreen Data Continuity Inc., a provider of data protection and business continuity solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). EverGreen provides comprehensive professional services and solutions for risk assessment, data protection, and business continuity planning to EMC's customers.

"In this partnership, EverGreen maintains its third-party objectivity and is able to provide customers with best-in-class solutions to protect their corporate data," said Robert Burns, EverGreen's founder, president, and CEO. "Depending on the nature and scope of the project, we work with EMC to provide a risk assessment, a data storage plan, and business continuity services. EMC will provide the recommended hardware or software, if applicable, and configure and implement the storage plan."

EverGreen's risk assessment focuses on the organization's ability to access and recover data for business-critical applications. After a thorough evaluation of the company's current situation and analysis against best practices, a series of scores based on the Baldridge Criteria for Performance Excellence are applied to the applications. These scores are then the basis for EverGreen's data storage strategies and configuration plans for data protection. The business continuity service that EverGreen provides defines and documents the procedures for assessing, responding to, and recovering from events that threaten mission-critical business operations. The company provides clients the detailed strategies, plans, and information required for data centers, distributed data environments, and business units to minimize the impact of a catastrophic event.

"Our partnership with EverGreen has allowed us to provide our customers with expanded service offerings to protect their corporate data," said Bob Fusaro, regional manager of professional services, EMC Corporation. "By providing a third-party view, EverGreen gives our customers the assurance that they will be implementing the best-in-class technologies to meet their data protection, storage, and business continuity needs."

About EverGreen Data Continuity, Inc.

EverGreen Data Continuity, Inc., headquartered in Newbury, Mass., provides data protection and business continuity solutions to organizations facing rapid data growth. EverGreen's flagship offering, Information Technology Protection(sm) (ITP(sm)) is a suite of services based on best-in-class technologies and best practices, consisting of four modules: risk assessment, data protection, business continuity, and continuity maintenance. The company can be reached at (978) 499-7711 or by visiting the Web site at www.evergreen-data.com.

About EMC Corporation

EMC Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is the world's technology and market leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent enterprise storage systems, software and services. The company's products store, retrieve, manage, protect, and share information from all major computing environments, including UNIX, Windows NT, Linux and mainframe platforms. The company has offices worldwide, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC, and is a component of the S&P Index. For further information about EMC and its storage solutions, EMC's corporate web site can be accessed at http://www.EMC.com.