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EMC, Fujitsu Siemens Extend Strategic Alliance: Page 2 of 2

EMC Corp. and Fujitsu Siemens Computers have extended their strategic alliance through 2008 as the two firms increase jointly-developed solutions that are becoming mutually advantageous in North America and Europe.
March 13, 2004

The two firms cooperate in the whole area of data protection, or as Koury called it -- "backup. restore and recovery." Recently the companies demonstrated a global "fail-over" and recovery of a live SAP ERP application between EMC operations in Massachusetts and Ireland. The application was intentionally failed in Massachusetts and within minutes it was up and running the SAP transactions in Ireland.

The demonstration used EMC's SRDF/Asynchronous remote replication software and its Symmetrix DMX GigE multi-protocol channel directors. Fujitsu Siemens contributed its Primecluster product suite. EMC's SRDF/A's extended-distance replication software uses no host involvement and helps to recover applications. Primecluster monitors the cluster "heartbeat" to protect against primary site failure.

Fujitsu Siemens is EMC's largest reseller of its Symmetrix Systems. It also markets EMC's Celerra file servers, Centera content addressed storage solutions, Connectrix switches and EMC open software solutions. The firms will jointly demo their various approaches to data storage at the CeBIT trade show in Germany later this month.

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