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New Market Study Confirms EMC Rainfinity as Most Widely Deployed File Virtualization Solution
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
TheInfoPro's Wave 10 Storage Study Indicates Increased Spending on File Virtualization in 2007; Rapid Customer Adoption Distinguishes EMC Rainfinity as Industry-Leading File Mobility and Management Solution Portfolio
HOPKINTON, Mass., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation, the world
leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced accelerated
adoption of its EMC Rainfinity Global File Virtualization and EMC Rainfinity
File Management Appliance solutions. Meanwhile, a new study released by
technology research firm TheInfoPro shows that EMC Rainfinity remains the #1
in use file virtualization technology.
Rainfinity continues to accelerate its penetration into enterprises
globally on the strength of its pioneering file virtualization capabilities
for multi-vendor NAS (network-attached storage) environments and is being used
to virtualize petabytes of customer information in a wide range of industries
and operating environments. The addition of automated file archiving
capabilities between multi-vendor NAS and Content Addressed Storage such as
EMC Centera(R) also extend Rainfinity to support customers' archive and
compliance initiatives in file area networks.
"File systems are expanding rapidly across distributed enterprises and IT
organizations are struggling with the many downstream challenges posed by this
growth. More enterprise IT organizations are turning to EMC Rainfinity to
address common issues such as tiered storage management, file archiving and
global namespace management across growing multi-vendor storage environments,"
said Rich Napolitano, EMC Senior Vice President, Storage Division.
"EMC Rainfinity provides our IT organization a powerful tool for proactive
management of our tiered storage environment" said Eric Rinker, IT Manager,
PDF Solutions, a leading provider of process-design integration technologies
and services for manufacturing integrated circuits. The company manages about
60 terabytes (TB) of data in its NAS environment. "Rainfinity allows us to
seamlessly move content without impacting end users or applications, greatly
improving our ability to manage performance and capacity of our NAS
infrastructure. The cost savings of not having to over allocate resources to
provide flexibility is huge."
"Storage virtualization and consolidation are often tied together, and
storage professionals within Fortune 1000 organizations are indicating that 20
- 40% of storage production environments are targeted to be virtualized by
2010" said Robert Stevenson, Managing Director of Storage Research for
TheInfoPro. "Our Wave 10 Storage Study shows that EMC's Rainfinity is one of
the top technologies organizations are considering to reach this goal."
New Enhancements Added to Rainfinity Global File Virtualization and
Rainfinity File Management Appliance
EMC also announced immediate availability of new feature, performance and
usability updates to its Global File Virtualization and File Management
Appliance products including support for automated file retention capabilities
within EMC Celerra and Network Appliance storage devices.
"EMC Rainfinity's new support of EMC Celerra File Level Retention enables
customers to continue leveraging storage device capabilities that serve
important business functions for archiving and compliance," Napolitano said.
EMC Rainfinity is deployed by customers in industries including automotive,
aerospace, biotech, education, healthcare, manufacturing, technology and
financial services -- including four of the top five U.S. banks. Dramatically
simplifying the management of multi-vendor NAS devices and file systems via
its advanced Global Namespace capability, Rainfinity includes a suite of
integrated applications for optimizing capacity management, performance
management, storage consolidation, tiered storage management, automated file
archiving and synchronous replication - all from a single, easy-to-use
interface.
Please visit the EMC Rainfinity product pages on EMC.com for more
information about EMC's file virtualization solutions.
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, Rainfinity Global File Virtualization, Centera and Celerra are
registered trademarks and Rainfinity File Management Appliance is a trademark
of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the
Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those
projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk
factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic
or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology
spending; (iii) risks associated with acquisitions and investments, including
the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving
anticipated synergies; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to
pricing pressures and new product introductions; (v) the relative and varying
rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture
of product and services revenues; (vi) component and product quality and
availability; (vii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of
customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and
market change; (viii) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (ix) war or
acts of terrorism; (x) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified
employees; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; and (xii) other one-time
events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time
in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC
disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after
the date of this release.
SOURCE EMC Corporation
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