Joint Integration of EMC VPLEX and VMware vSphere(R) Delivers Higher Levels of Availability and Workload Mobility

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Joint Integration of EMC VPLEX and VMware vSphere® Delivers Higher
Levels of Availability and Workload Mobility

EMC Achieves Certification for Implementing New VMware vSphere® Metro
Storage Cluster

COPENHAGEN – Oct. 19, 2011 – Today at VMworld® 2011 Europe, EMC
Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the number one choice of customers in VMware
virtual and cloud
(http://www.emc.com/solutions/business-need/virtualizing-information-infrastructure/index.htm)
environments according to a recent Wikibon survey
(http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/VMware_Storage_Integration_Journey_Checkpoint),
today announced that EMC VPLEX is now certified by VMware to implement
vSphere Metro Storage Cluster (vMSC). Now organizations can realize even
greater IT efficiency and flexibility with the ability to manage and
move data between stretched VMware vSphere® clusters in different
geographic locations.

EMC and VMware have worked together to produce the test harness for
vMSC to enable VMware ecosystem partners to certify clustered storage
products. This work is another example of how EMC has been leading the
industry by integrating closely with VMware technologies to increase
ease of use, performance, and availability of virtual and cloud
infrastructures. As customers virtualize mission critical applications
to accelerate their journey to the cloud, there is a greater need for
higher availability and data mobility.

EMC VPLEX is a unique virtual storage technology that federates data
located on multiple storage systems – EMC and non-EMC – allowing the
storage resources in multiple data centres to be pooled together and
accessed anywhere. Customers can achieve transparent workload mobility
and availability, both locally and over distance, through VPLEX’s
simultaneous access to storage systems at geographically separate sites.
The combination of VPLEX and VMware vSphere provides high availability
and transparent, non-disruptive data mobility to achieve the ultimate
cloud computing environment.

“EMC is excited to accelerate the benefits of cloud computing with
stretched VMware vSphere® clusters across active/active data centres,”
said EMC’s Chad Sakac, Vice President, VMware Technology
Alliance.“Combining industry-leading features in EMC VPLEX and
VMware vSphere customers can now achieve simple workload mobility across
their data centres while at the same time decreasing management
overhead.”

“With the introduction of the VMware vSphere® Metro Storage Cluster
program, we’re helping enhance mobility and agility within customer
data centres by enabling our storage partners to self-certify new
clustered storage products and architectures,” said Hatem Naguib, Vice
President, Alliances, VMware. “We are delighted that EMC is taking
advantage of this key new program as we continue working together to
further our customers’ journey to their cloud.”

Additional Resources

* Read more about EMC VPLEX (http://www.emc.com/vplex)
* Read about implementing vSphere Metro Storage Cluster using EMC VPLEX
(http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2007545).

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service
providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service.
Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through
innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud
computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze
their most valuable asset – information – in a more agile, trusted
and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at
www.EMC.com.

EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

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For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com


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