EMC, VMware Expand Business and Technology Alliance; Helping Customers Accelerate...

EMC, VMware Expand Business and Technology Alliance; Helping Customers
Accelerate Virtualization Journey
New EMC Solutions and Services Provide Data Center Teams Visibility and
Control to Confidently Migrate Business Critical Applications to VMware
vSphere(TM) 4

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- VMworld 2009 -- Further helping
customers accelerate their journey to the private cloud, EMC Corporation
(NYSE: EMC) today announced an expanded business and technology alliance with
VMware. The companies' ongoing alliance is squarely focused on helping
customers enable tier-one applications on VMware vSphere(TM) 4, streamline
configuration and compliance management, and automate IT processes across the
data center leveraging the VMware vCenter(TM) Product Family and the EMC(R)
Ionix(TM) portfolio.

Key to this expanded alliance, the companies have announced a reseller
agreement whereby EMC is now a fully authorized reseller of VMware vCenter
AppSpeed. This new solution - along with EMC's virtualization services - will
be offered through EMC Select as part of EMC's Ionix portfolio, enabling
customers to have full management capabilities across their physical and
virtual IT infrastructures.

EMC and VMware are also partnering to provide new services designed to rapidly
identify and migrate (physical to virtual) tier-one applications. These
services will leverage a best-in-class automation and tools approach -
including VMware Capacity Planner, EMC(R) Ionix(TM) Application Discovery
Manager, and VMware vCenter AppSpeed - to help customers streamline the
decision-making process in determining which mission-critical applications to
virtualize next. In total, these services will provide customers with a
full-lifecycle and workflow approach to facilitate each application through
its transformation to the virtual world. The specific offerings related to
VMware vCenter AppSpeed include: Enhanced Candidate Selection for VMware
vCenter AppSpeed, VMware vCenter AppSpeed Jumpstart, and VMware Infrastructure
Performance Health Check.

"As customers virtualize their mission-critical applications with VMware
vSphere(TM) 4, VMware vCenter(TM) AppSpeed provides assurance via clear
visibility into the performance of applications and by enabling
troubleshooting and root cause analysis," said Shekar Ayyar, Vice President,
Infrastructure Alliances, VMware. "The Ionix(TM) suite from EMC complements
VMware management solutions creating a winning combination - giving customers
the data center efficiency, increased service-level control and greater
flexibility they've been asking for."

"In VMware vCenter(TM) AppSpeed, VMware has taken a major step forward helping
customers conduct service-level reporting and proactive performance management
for multi-tier applications running on virtual machines. IT administrators
gain unprecedented visibility into application performance and how it helps
accelerate their journey to the private cloud," said EMC's Jay Mastaj, Vice
President and General Manager, EMC Ionix. "With EMC(R) Ionix(TM), customers
can efficiently and effectively manage the full virtual and physical data
center ecosystem across networks, storage systems, servers and applications.
Working together, EMC and VMware are empowering customers like never before to
take advantage of virtualization to improve the way they manage their entire
data center."

Further strengthening EMC's automated root-cause and impact analysis solutions
- EMC(R) Ionix(TM) for IT Operations Intelligence - VMware vCenter AppSpeed
will provide service-level reporting and proactive performance management for
multi-tier applications running on virtual machines. VMware vCenter AppSpeed
gives IT administration full visibility into how application performance
depends on different tiers of virtual and physical infrastructures. With the
ability to quickly discover, monitor and report on applications, the solution
will enable customers to: increase application performance and uptime,
troubleshoot and resolve performance issues, and virtualize more machines at a
faster rate.

VMware vCenter AppSpeed will be sold in conjunction with EMC's newly announced
Ionix IT Management portfolio. The Ionix family of next-generation IT
management solutions help customers confidently accelerate their journey to
the private cloud. Unlike existing IT management tools, Ionix was designed
with a fundamental understanding that customers would be incorporating
virtualization technology throughout their enterprise. Ionix solutions
enable customers to efficiently and effectively manage the virtual and
physical data center - as well as the IT services that rely on these
infrastructure elements. Ionix solutions help customers solve today's
management challenges, meet increasing service-level requirements, deploy
virtualization in a data center faster, and be confident they're fully enabled
to take advantage of the flexibility and cost-savings of a virtual
infrastructure.

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 and Ionix are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC
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SOURCE EMC Corporation

Craig Librett, of EMC Corporation, +1-508-293-7298, librett_craig@emc.com