Precise for Storage Tiering Now Available Through EMC Select Program

REDWOOD SHORES, CA, Oct 08 (MARKET WIRE) --
Precise today announced that EMC is reselling Precise for Storage
Tiering(TM) through EMC(R) Select, a program which helps customers easily
acquire components that comprise an information infrastructure. Through
the EMC Select program, customers can purchase Precise for Storage
Tiering from EMC and its authorized partners.

"Precise for Storage Tiering enables customers to optimize enterprise
flash drive deployment for maximum business transaction throughput in EMC
Symmetrix(R) and CLARiiON(R) storage environments," said Peter Conway,
vice president of Symmetrix Business and Products Operations at EMC
Corporation. "The exceptional performance of our enterprise flash drive
solutions can now be accurately assigned to the service of specific
critical businesses."

With Precise for Storage Tiering, customers can trace transaction
performance problems from the end user down to the physical storage
device. Precise for Storage Tiering determines transaction data
assignment to the optimal storage tier according to business value,
performance impact and cost considerations. The thorough monitoring of
transaction data allows Precise to accurately predict the impact of
storage tiering on transaction performance.

"According to our customers, 50 to 75 percent of business transaction
response time is in the database and storage tiers," said Zohar Gilad,
executive vice president, for Precise. "With Precise for Storage Tiering,
customers can eliminate these performance bottlenecks and optimize their
storage investments."

"Customers can now use Precise's detailed storage transaction data to
identify specific application performance bottlenecks and determine where
the fastest storage resources will have the biggest resolution impact,"
said Brian Babineau, senior analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group. "This
insight enables customers to target EFD implementations where they provide
the most compelling return on investment, or conversely, use more
cost-effective storage options when business transaction performance
requirements are lower."

Precise for Storage Tiering software is immediately available through the
EMC Select program. For more information, visit www.emc.com/select.

About Precise

Precise, the global leader in Transaction Performance Management (TPM)
solutions helps customers optimize the performance of their mission
critical applications. Precise TPM gives IT a consolidated view of
application performance allowing them to clearly see where critical
business transactions spend time and how well they are performing against
business expectations. Precise has over 18 years of expertise delivering
performance management solutions for all major packaged applications (SAP,
Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel), custom applications (J2EE,
.NET), databases and storage devices. For more information about Precise
visit www.precise.com.

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