EMC Centera Helps Customers Meet Information Retention Challenges

Implementation of Production Archives Enables Centera Customers to Lower
Overall Cost of Storage and Manage Ever Increasing Quantities of Information

ORLANDO, Fla., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC World -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC)

News Summary:

-- EMC(R) Centera(R) content addressed storage (CAS) systems have been at
the forefront of delivering best-in-class disk-based production
archives
for numerous customers in varying industries over the past decade.
Organizations including Sutter Health, WellStar Health Systems and
Plymouth Insurance Group have recently turned to EMC and Centera to
meet
their archiving requirements, resulting in a reduction in their
overall
cost of storage while keeping more information online, for greater
business value.

Highlights/Key Facts:

-- According to the new EMC-sponsored IDC study titled "As the Economy
Contracts, the Digital Universe Expands," the amount of digital
information created in 2008 grew 3% faster or 16 million gigabytes
more,
compared with IDC's prior projection. Looking forward, the Digital
Universe is expected to double in size every 18 months. In 2012, five
times as much digital information will be created versus 2008. (See
related release) The majority of that information is unstructured
content, which Centera was purpose-built to store, protect and access.

-- The recent passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009
(ARRA) includes specific provisions relating to health information
technology (HITECH Act) and allocates more than $20 billion of funding
to help accelerate the adoption of electronic health record
capabilities to deliver safer, patient care. Designed for storing and
archiving electronic healthcare records and patient images, EMC
Centera
CAS active archiving systems are deployed at thousands of healthcare
providers worldwide, helping these organizations to comply with HIPAA,
Joint Commission, and EU Data Directives for secure records retention.

-- With 11,000 systems shipped to over 5,000 customers worldwide,
shipping
more than 370 petabytes (PBs) of storage, Centera provides simple,
affordable, and secure information archiving, allowing organizations
to
make their archives an extension of their primary storage. This
allows
them to move infrequently or unchanging information to an online
production archive at the earliest or most convenient time.

-- As part of EMC's Velocity Technology and ISV Partner Program, more
than 270 vendors have solutions that integrate with EMC Centera, which
provide compelling joint solutions to customers. In addition, EMC is
playing an active role in driving new industry standards like the
eXtensible Access Method (XAM) specification, which helps customers
lower the cost of accessing, retaining and managing data through
multi-vendor interoperability.

Customers Turn to EMC Centera for Their Production Archiving and Retention
Needs

Healthcare Provider Improves Patient Information Access and Reduces Storage
Footprint

-- Sutter Health - one of the nation's leading not-for-profit
healthcare providers, serving more than 100 Northern California
communities - needed to expand its electronic health records
infrastructure in order to keep up with information growth it was
experiencing due to advances in medicine that are taking place within
the organization.

Nina Noldon, Regional Director Diagnostic Imaging at Sutter Health Sacramento
Sierra Region, said, "Since 2008 Sutter Health has been on a strategic journey
- Destination 2012. This strategy is based on consumer-centric value that
delivers high quality, affordable, accessible and consistent services to our
customers. As part of this strategy we invest and partner with technology
providers to not only improve patient care but also help us reduce our overall
cost. In the past years I have personally witnessed not only the rapid growth
in the amount of information to be stored but also the total size of the
imaging data sets to be stored. Coupled with this has been the need to
develop a centralized strategy and schema to store and access medical imaging
from outside of the traditional Radiology setting. EMC Centera has allowed
Sutter Health in the Sacramento Sierra Region to tackle these challenges
head-on and greatly reduce our total cost of storage per Terabyte."

Noldon added, "Our challenge to EMC was to develop a solution that met our
long term storage needs, access to the non-traditional medical imaging as well
our disaster recovery needs. EMC Centera Gen 4 was the answer. By moving
inactive data off primary storage to Centera we've been able to maximize our
short term shortage reducing the image retrieval turn around time our
clinicians' experience. This is a huge Medical Staff satisfier and can really
make a difference in urgent clinical situations. The Gen 4 conversion has
reduced our overall power and cooling needs in the Data Center, added
significant capacity to both our long term and disaster recovery systems,
while reducing the total footprint of the systems. Our experience in the past
years related to data integrity also drove our decision. Our experience with
EMC Centera assured me of the quality of the information moving to the
archive. We know that we can quickly access the data in long term storage and
that the archive creates an easy to find permanent trail of the data. As
Sutter Health continues on its journey to Destination 2012, we will continue
to maximize the ability of Centera as a consolidated archive so we can slice,
dice, store and retrieve data in ways we never could before, always with an
eye on transforming our organization to meet our patients' and our
communities' needs for safer, more affordable care."

WellStar Health Systems Partners With EMC to Standardize Long Term Archiving

-- In an effort to provide high quality healthcare, WellStar Health
Systems
looked to streamline its storage and information access in order to
deliver the best possible services for the organization's
personnel.

"The ability to make a decision in our business is critical in providing the
best patient care possible," said Stephen Edge, Chief Enterprise Architect for
WellStar Health System. "For us to improve on information access and fast
decision-making, we needed to partner with the best storage provider and EMC
was the clear choice in allowing us to store, grow and improve our data
center. As a result, we made a strategic decision to use EMC Centera as our
foundational platform to archive medical records, images and financial
information. By investing in EMC and Centera, WellStar can focus on one system
and make sure our other application vendors tie to the system which has
allowed us to save significant costs."

"The hybrid approach of using optical, tape and paper files with multiple
disparate applications made it very time consuming for users to access and
locate files and information," said Edge. "Now with Centera, WellStar has
about 100 TBs of archived information so our clinicians can easily access
electronic medical records and radiological and heartlabs images. By archiving
to Centera, we've been able to allocate less primary storage which has helped
us save cost and keep the most important data at the finger tips of our users.
The bottom line is that Centera works as advertised and we couldn't be
happier. In addition, EMC Professional Services has enabled WellStar to
quickly expand and migrate our Centera deployment to accommodate the rapid
growth we've seen in making all of our information digital."

The vision of WellStar Health System is to deliver world-class healthcare.
WellStar Health System is a not-for-profit health system, which includes Cobb,
Douglas, Kennestone, Paulding and Windy Hill hospitals; WellStar Physicians
Group; Urgent Care Centers; Health Place; Homecare; Hospice; Atherton Place;
Paulding Nursing Center; and WellStar Foundation. For more information, call
770-956-STAR or visit www.wellstar.org.

Insurance Carrier Reduces Primary Storage Costs By 84% Through Production
Archiving

-- Plymouth Rock Group of Companies - a regional provider of personal
insurance - required an archiving storage tier in order to help in
order
to maintain superior customer service while reducing spending and
simplifying the management of thousands of claims files.

Troy Wood, Storage Team Lead, Shared Technology Services Group, Inc., a
Plymouth Rock Company, said, "As we write and manage more than $1 billion in
personal and commercial auto and homeowner's insurance across the Northeast,
it's vital for us to utilize technology in order for us to maintain the
highest levels of customer service. We needed to improve our information
infrastructure as it related to archiving in order to receive fast information
access at a controlled cost, while knowing that information was retained
indefinitely for internal and external governance policies. Due to their
solutions-centric approach to archiving, we chose EMC Centera along with a
number of other EMC solutions, which enabled us to quickly reduce storage
costs by quickly offloading data off our EMC Celerra(R) unified storage system
onto Centera."

Wood added, "For documents with a last modified stamp older than 90 days, we
move the documents from EMC Celerra to Centera with EMC Rainfinity(R) FMA. As
a result of this seamless migration and automated archiving, we've seen
tremendous benefits. Currently, we've been able to reduce our Celerra-based
storage from 1.7 TBs to 250 GBs, helping us reduce our storage costs by 84%.
In addition, by moving older Microsoft Exchange files to Centera, we've been
able to reduce the primary storage by 66%. At the same time, when employees
need information, it's easily and quickly accessible through Centera. EMC has
been invaluable in simplifying our information lifecycle management strategy
while reducing cost and improving information access."

Supporting Resources

-- Learn more about EMC Centera

http://www.emc.com/products/family/emc-centera-family.htm

-- Learn more about EMC's Information Heritage

http://www.emc.com/about/global-citizenship/philanthropy/information-heritage.htm

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