EMC and Tivoli Form Alliance; Tivoli Storage Manager to be Integrated With EMC Symmetrix Enterprise Storage for Automated, High-Speed Backup and Restore Capabilities

Business Wire, May 23, 2000

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PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2000

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) and Tivoli Systems Inc. today announced an agreement to integrate Tivoli Storage Manager with EMC's Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and software. The alliance, announced at the Planet Tivoli user conference, will provide customers with automated online information backup, restore and management capabilities for all of their enterprise information.

Tivoli(R) will join the EMC E-Infostructure Developers Program, which facilitates the integration of independent software solutions with EMC Symmetrix systems and software through a range of EMC application programming interfaces (APIs). As part of the alliance, EMC will also join the Team Tivoli program, and its systems will be qualified as part of the Tivoli Ready(tm) program, which designates third-party products that meet Tivoli integration standards.

Tivoli Storage Manager, the successor to the IBM and Tivoli ADSM storage management software product set, is utilized on more than one million systems worldwide as an integrated backup, restore, archive, storage management and disaster recovery solution. By integrating Tivoli Storage Manager with Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and software, including EMC TimeFinder for the creation of multiple copies of production data, mutual customers will be able to automate fast, non-disruptive backups of their enterprise information. The two companies will sell their respective products separately.

"Our mutual customers are storing and managing more information than ever before," said Troy Pladson, vice president of strategy, Marketing and Business Development, Tivoli Storage Management Solutions. "By integrating Tivoli Storage Manager with EMC's solutions, we are providing our customers with an efficient, highly effective way to ensure their information is properly protected and always available."

Roy Sanford, EMC's vice president of Enterprise Alliances, added, "We are working closely with leaders like Tivoli to integrate our storage solutions in order to provide our mutual customers with the most flexible, reliable and scalable information infrastructure for their business. With the rate of change that businesses of all sizes are facing today, our customers need a strategy that offers them many options for the management, sharing and protection of their information."

About the E-Infostructure Developers Program

The EMC E-Infostructure Developers Program provides wide-scale access to EMC APIs, which are software paths into a Symmetrix Enterprise Storage system and its software. The program enables customers to select from, and rapidly integrate, a large variety of information management, sharing and protection tools. These solutions, developed and sold by third-party companies, allow customers to more easily manage and implement their electronic information infrastructure or E-Infostructure. By sharing its APIs with third-party application vendors, EMC helps customers take full advantage of the leading performance, availability and management features of EMC Enterprise Storage solutions, while eliminating costly, time-consuming application creation or customization.

Further information on EMC's E-Infostructure Developers Program can be found at www.emc.com/partnersalliances/einfostructure/developers.> About Team Tivoli

Team Tivoli is the industry's leading community of IT management experts and solutions providers delivering people, products and best practices that hasten customers' time-to-value. Team Tivoli includes over 600 business partners, 150 Tivoli Ready solutions providers and hundreds of other partners that perform sales and services around Tivoli solutions.

For a complete list of Team Tivoli partners and programs, please visit Tivoli's Web site at www.tivoli.com.

About Tivoli Ready

Tivoli Ready products are those that have met key integration standards for manageability by Tivoli management software. To achieve Tivoli Ready certification, partners can either integrate their products with Tivoli software or embed the Tivoli Management Agent (TMA) within their solutions. Either approach allows a company's SAN devices to be discovered and managed by a Tivoli managed enterprise.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing the information infrastructure for a connected world. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

About Tivoli Systems Inc.

Tivoli Systems Inc. provides the industry's leading open, highly scalable and cross-platform technology management solutions that span networks, systems, applications and business-to-business e-commerce. Leading companies around the world use Tivoli software and Tivoli Ready products to reduce the cost and complexity of managing networks, systems, databases and applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Tivoli is an IBM company (NYSE:IBM). Tivoli distributes its products worldwide through a network of global sales offices, systems integrators, resellers and IBM sales channels. For more information, visit www.tivoli.com.