New EMC Services and Solutions Drive Private Cloud Acceleration

The News

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced a breakthrough approach to speeding the transition to private cloud with a suite of more than 30 new services and solutions. The comprehensive approach EMC takes to address the application, infrastructure and governance issues that impact execution of a private cloud strategy is reflected in the broad portfolio of end-to-end services and solutions that enable customers to accelerate enterprise-scale virtualization. As a leading VMware professional services provider, EMC Global Services has expertise in delivering virtualized information infrastructures in the data center, the first step on the journey to realizing the benefits of private cloud.

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The new services and solutions -- encompassing consulting, technology integration, resident, and education services offerings, along with a full suite of EMC Proven(TM) Solutions -- are critical to helping customers address the challenges they face when planning, implementing and scaling their private cloud environment, inclusive of backup and recovery, business continuity, disaster recovery, management, and the transition of tier 1 applications to the virtual infrastructure.

Highlights

    --  As a premier partner in the VMware Partner Network with hundreds of
        VMware Certified Professionals, and a VMware Authorized Training Center
        (VATC), EMC is helping customers speed their transition to private cloud
        environments.
    --  EMC Consulting services provide expertise in developing strategies,
        business cases and roadmaps to effectively transform information
        infrastructures to achieve the benefits of a private cloud.  Customers
        have experienced savings of up to 45 percent over traditional data
        center approaches using EMC Consulting private cloud methodologies
        combined with leading EMC, Cisco and VMware technology.
    --  EMC's approach rationalizes applications against business
        requirements, develops strategies for virtualizing applications, and
        aids customers in managing their transformational journey to a private
        cloud.
    --  EMC offers a full range of new Private Cloud Acceleration Services to
        efficiently plan, deploy, manage and operate a secure virtualized
        environment with tier 1 applications.  These services also help
        customers develop the skills and knowledge required to manage a private
        cloud environment or augment IT staff.
    --  New EMC Ionix(TM) IT management services help ease customers transition
        to a private cloud by leveraging ITIL and ITSM frameworks for both
        physical and virtual environments.  The services help maximize overall
        effectiveness by automating procedures based on best practices using EMC
        Ionix virtualized data center management software.

    --  EMC Proven Solutions minimize risk by providing reference architectures
        and documented best practices for deploying technology to virtualize the
        data center. Using validated combinations of EMC, VMware and 3rd party
        technologies, these Proven Solutions enable customers to reduce virtual
        infrastructure configuration time by more than 65 percent and deployment
        time by as much as 50 percent; reduce email archiving volumes for
        Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 by more than 85 percent; enable
        full-scale disaster recovery rehearsal without interruption to SAP
        production data; and reduce CPU cycles and improve resource efficiency
        for Oracle in virtual environments.

Analyst Quotes

"Companies are rapidly evolving their data centers to achieve the benefits of private cloud. To achieve maximum return on their investments, they need to lay a stable architectural foundation across the infrastructure. EMC accelerates the adoption of a private cloud model by helping its customers plan, design, implement and manage their evolution to the private cloud."

- Mark Bowker, Analyst, Enterprise Storage Group

"Private clouds can lower costs and increase business flexibility, but organizations need to think carefully about rationalizing their application portfolio to determine the best candidates for a cloud model. We advise clients to lower their risks and speed time to deployment by leveraging proven reference architectures from experienced services organizations such as EMC."

- Dave Vellante, Co-founder, Wikibon

EMC Executive Quotes

"Customers are ready to take advantage of the financial efficiencies -- both capital and operational --and the increased agility that private cloud provides. The transformation is multi-faceted with significant impact across information infrastructure and applications and the journey to private cloud represents a foundational change in how IT organizations architect, operate and deliver services to their customers. Today EMC offers a suite of services to help customers with this transition so they can quickly realize the cost savings, streamlined operational processes and increased flexibility associated with a private cloud."

- Tom Roloff, Senior Vice President, EMC Consulting

"The last thing CIOs want to do is introduce risk as they transition their current data center to a private cloud. That's why EMC Proven Solutions are so valuable to our customers. EMC performs rigorous solutions testing and documents best practices for achieving enterprise-scale virtualization of mission-critical applications, taking the risk out of the equation. That means we provide customers with predictable results and faster ROI as they deploy technology to virtualize their application infrastructures for Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and SAP."

- Todd Pavone, Vice President, EMC Global Solutions

EMC Global Services

EMC Global Services provides the strategic guidance and technology expertise organizations need to address their business and information infrastructure challenges and derive the maximum value from their information assets and investments. With over 13,000 professional- and support-service experts worldwide, plus a global network of alliances and partners, EMC Global Services leverages proven methodologies, industry best practices, experience and a knowledge base derived from EMC's 30-year information-centric heritage to help customers reduce risk, lower costs and speed time to value.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

EMC is a registered trademark and EMC Proven and Ionix are trademarks of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

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