EMC Extends Information Lifecycle Management for Compliance

Business Wire, June 7, 2004

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2004

New EMC Proven Solutions, Platform Functionality and Services Help

Customers Manage Information to Meet Regulatory Demands and Address

Compliance Requirements

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, today announced capabilities that further empower customers to make compliance a seamless part of IT operations through information lifecycle management (ILM). The new EMC Proven(TM) Solutions for e-mail and content archiving and retrieval, new platform functionality for compliance-related data management, and enhanced services for data classification will help customers extract the maximum value from their information at the lowest total cost while meeting regulatory demands and achieving compliance.

Corporate governance, legal requirements and government regulations are forcing IT organizations to re-evaluate their information management strategies. These organizations need to create and implement policies for data integrity, authentication, legal discovery and retrieval. EMC offers the industry's broadest family of tiered storage platforms, software, services and solutions. These solutions address regulatory compliance by helping customers to manage information at every point in the information lifecycle, from content creation, use and retention to final disposition. By enhancing IT capabilities for compliance, EMC helps customers increase the efficiency of their compliance efforts, lower costs and meet changing business needs in an evolving regulatory environment.

Peter Gerr, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said, "EMC's Proven Solutions and services for compliance create an actionable IT agenda that allows customers to manage compliance related data such as e-mail and bank statements the same way they manage transactional data. By automating and better managing information throughout its lifecycle, companies are able to address compliance requirements, but also can reduce costs of information protection, management, and retrieval by consolidating their existing stove-piped compliance and archiving operations."

Today, EMC extends its broad suite of technology solutions and services for regulatory compliance while providing greater simplicity and choice for customers. These new solutions and services include (see separate releases):

    EMC Proven Content Archiving and Retrieval Solutions (CARS)
    automate regulatory compliance by centralizing online document and
    records management with an integrated solution to capture, store
    and rapidly retrieve content in any format from any source. EMC
    CARS with Documentum enables customers to manage the content
    lifecycle for compliance. EMC CARS with Mobius enables customers
    to transform and archive bills, statements, check images and other
    content, including mainframe generated content, in compliance with
    regulations.

    EMC Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving optimizes placement of
    e-mail, helping organizations address cost and compliance
    objectives-- from faster upgrades and better user experiences to
    the most stringent regulations. The EMC Proven Solution tightly
    integrates the LEGATO EmailXtender(R) e-mail archiving application
    with EMC's tiered storage and services to archive e-mail content
    from Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.

    EMC Centera(TM) CAS (content addressed storage) offers new
    retention classes, audited delete and configurable default
    retention period compliance functionality with its latest
    operating environment release, CentraStar v2.3. These enhancements
    deliver enhanced performance and manageability functions, allowing
    customers to meet their online fixed content archiving demands,
    further extending Centera's market lead in this category.

    EMC Technology Solutions group offers Data Classification Services
    to help customers create an ILM strategy by defining a tiered
    storage architecture that aligns business requirements to
    architecture, data policies and service levels. Data Migration
    Services from EMC and its partners provide unmatched experience,
    methodologies and tools to help customers move their information
    to a more effective and productive architecture while minimizing
    risk and accelerating business benefit.

Addressing more than 500 customers here in New York, David Goulden, EMC's Executive Vice President of Customer Operations, said, "As compliance requirements proliferate, organizations demand flexible solutions to help them comply with current requirements and adapt to new and evolving ones. EMC can help these organizations comply with these regulations because it has extensive experience with compliance issues and the broadest and deepest set of offerings and partnerships in the industry. Today, EMC Proven Solutions for compliance help customers implement ILM to address regulatory, corporate governance and legal demands. Customers can manage and store information from its creation to disposition, setting the appropriate retention periods along the way."