EMC Infrastructure Software Delivers Unbridled Data Movement, Central Management; New and Enhanced EMC Software Fortifies Business Value of Global Information Infrastructures - Product Announcement

Edge: Work-Group Computing Report, May 1, 2000

EMC Corporation, the world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems, software and services, today rolled out a collection of software products to address the ever-critical and seemingly infinite information demands weighing on virtually every business. Available immediately, the new and enhanced EMC software is part of the EMC E-Infostructure Suite, delivering the world's most advanced range of storage software intelligence.

The EMC E-Infostructure Suite software, combined with the new EMC storage systems and Enginuity Operating Environment (see separate releases), delivers the tools required to convert information into business value. Together, they remove barriers to growth and enable businesses from Internet startups to the Global 2000 to absorb massive change, enjoy unbridled data movement and retain central management and control over all of their information assets.

"On the Internet, success kills," said Marc Andreessen, Chairman and co-founder of Loudcloud, Inc. "Web-based businesses need an infrastructure that can scale on the fly and manage the demands of success. Unlike traditional companies, an e-business can't take time to catch its breath. EMC delivers rich software and robust systems to help Loudcloud provide a Net infrastructure to our customers, ensuring their business stays online through unexpected surges, routine upgrades and catastrophic disasters."

Michael Ruffolo, EMC's Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Services and Marketing, said, "In Tuesday's information-centric business, a company's success is determined by its information agility. Businesses must reach into every corner of their organizations and supply chains to capture and leverage information, to deepen understanding of customers and develop better offerings to meet their needs. EMC software makes this possible and gives customers the tools -- and the confidence -- to build their business around information and break free from competition and outdated business models."

The new and enhanced software announced Tuesday includes: --EMC ControlCenter software -- ControlCenter is EMC's centralized management framework for monitoring and controlling customers' information infrastructures. ControlCenter enables customers to monitor, configure, control and proactively fine-tune their enterprise information from a single user console, either locally or over the Internet. Through integration of EMC Navisphere Manager software, ControlCenter also now provides a centralized point of management for EMC CLARiiON systems as an integral component of the EMC Enterprise Storage Network.

--EMC SRDF software -- Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), the world's most popular remote data replication software, enables companies to maintain a duplicate, accessible copy of all or some of their information at a secondary system located in the next building or across long distances. In addition to IP support announced this February, new SRDF capabilities include full Fibre Channel support for enhanced data replication in ESN environments, and open systems consistency groups, providing increased integrity and consistency for databases residing on multiple Symmetrix systems.

--EMC TimeFinder software -- TimeFinder enables businesses to create copies of production data non-disruptively to be used for backups, data warehouse loading, decision support applications, application development and other activities that require copies of data. With Tuesday's announcement, TimeFinder now can make multiple copies to provide near instant recovery from software failures, operator errors or hacker attack. This new feature makes it highly efficient to maintain several versions of production data to be used during the course of an Internet day.

--EMC CopyCross for MVS software -- Technical limitations of tape systems have prevented fast, reliable, cost-effective business continuity and disaster recovery. For the first time, customers can transparently, securely and automatically migrate MVS tape-based data to the Symmetrix system, where it is treated as native disk-based data. When tape I/Os are issued by the host, CopyCross software reroutes the data and stores it the Symmetrix system. Applications and tape management systems continue to interact with the data as if they were tape-based files. Once stored on the Symmetrix system, the data can immediately leverage the benefits of Symmetrix-based software solutions.

--EMC InfoMover software -- Until today, InfoMover has enabled organizations to perform high-speed bulk file transfers between any combination of supported UNIX, Windows NT and mainframe systems via an ESN, rather than the corporate end-user network. Through major enhancements, InfoMover can now provide shared heterogeneous access to a single copy of mainframe data by multiple UNIX systems.

--EMC Access Logix software -- Similar to EMC's popular Volume Logix software for Symmetrix, EMC's new Access Logix provides storage administrators with a flexible, intuitive, easy-to-implement method for CLARiiON data protection and shared storage access in an EMC Enterprise Storage Network. Access Logix enables storage administrators to configure and deploy storage capacity centrally on an as-needed basis, accelerating system reconfigurations and rollouts.