EMC and VMware Partner to Deliver New VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, Powered by EMC Avamar Technology

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EMC and VMware Partner to Deliver New VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, Powered by EMC Avamar Technology

Integrated with VMware vSphere® 5.1, Jointly Developed Solution Delivers Simple and Efficient Virtual Machine Backups Based on Proven EMC® Technology

VMworld®, San Francisco– August 27, 2012

News Highlights:

• VMware vSphere® Data Protection™, powered by EMC® Avamar® software, is an all-new backup and recovery solution to be included with VMware vSphere 5.1. 
• VMware vSphere Data Protection is tightly integrated with vSphere, simple to set up and can be managed directly from the new vSphere Web Client.
• VMware vSphere Data  Protection is ideally suited to protect SMBs and department-level virtualized environments with industry-leading backup and deduplication capabilities.
• VMware selected EMC Avamar software to provide the underlying technology for VMware vSphere Data  Protection. 
• VMware continues to be fully committed to enabling a rich partner ecosystem for backup and recovery solutions through the vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection.

Full Story:

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced a new backup and recovery solution for VMware vSphere® 5.1.  The new VMware vSphere Data Protection™ solution is built on industry-leading EMC Avamar deduplication backup software technology and is delivered as a part of VMware vSphere 5.1. VMware vSphere Data Protection replaces vSphere Data Recovery – previously available with vSphere - providing a more cost-effective, reliable and easy-to-use solution to protect VMware environments.

VMware vSphere Data Protection leverages EMC Avamar software’s leading technology including variable-length deduplication, full support of Changed Block Tracking and single-step restores to minimize storage resource consumption, reduce backup windows and enable fast recovery. VMware vSphere Data Protection can be managed directly from the vSphere Web Client and takes advantage of the vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection to enable agent-less backup.

In addition to VMware vSphere Data Protection, VMware continues to foster innovation in the backup for virtual environments supporting a broad partner community. VMware plans to continue investment in the vSphere Storage APIs for Data Protection to enable seamless integration of third-party backup and recovery with the VMware vSphere platform.  

VMware Executive Quote:
Bogomil Balkansky, Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure Products, VMware
“Backup and recovery is a critical element of virtualization implementations. Our selection of EMC Avamar technology enables us to deliver better backup and recovery capabilities directly from the VMware vSphere® platform.  VMware vSphere Data Protection™ represents a tremendous value-add for our customers and delivers yet another point of differentiation for vSphere 5.1.”

Industry Analyst Quote: 
David Vellante, Co-founder, The Wikibon Project
“The inclusion of Avamar technology into VMware vSphere® 5.1 delivers a robust and highly integrated virtual backup and recovery capability that’s easy to use.  Smaller businesses and departments within larger organizations are the primary beneficiaries of this initial release, as well those who are at the outset of their virtualization journey.   VMware has clearly taken virtual backup and recovery to the next level with this valuable addition to its platform.”

EMC Executive Quote:
William “BJ” Jenkins, President, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division
“EMC has established a market leading pedigree in the backup and recovery space with its Avamar, Data Domain® and NetWorker® products. Avamar deduplication software and system has garnered tremendous acceptance in the VMware user community as an enterprise backup and recovery solution that’s specifically optimized for VMware environments. The inclusion of Avamar capabilities into VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ helps ensure that VMware users always have a highly effective tool for virtual machine protection today and into the future.”

Additional Resources

• For continuous news and event updates for EMC at VMworld®, follow EMC on Twitter at @CloudEMCand @EMCCorp and join the conversations using #EMC and #VMworld. 
• Follow EMC backup on Twitter: @EMCbackup.
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• For updates on backup and BCDR follow VMware @vmwareuptime and read VMware vSphere Uptime Blog (http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/uptime)
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About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 400,000 customers and 55,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
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Toronto District School Board Calls on EMC's VNX, Data Domain to Advance Education Initiatives

EMC Press Release

Toronto District School Board Calls on EMC's VNX, Data Domain to Advance Education Initiatives

Canada's Largest School District Lowers Capacity Requirements by 32% and Boosts Performance for Microsoft Applications by 21%

HOPKINTON, Mass. - August 14, 2012

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) today announced that The Toronto District School Board (TDSB), the largest school board in Canada and fourth largest district in North America, has transformed its 325-terabyte storage infrastructure with EMC® VNX® unified storage and EMC Data Domain® deduplication storage systems for backup and recovery with the help of EMC Residency Services. Through storage consolidation, Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization and a FLASH 1st strategy, TDSB, running the Microsoft Productivity Suite, is achieving dramatic improvements in performance and efficiency while enhancing student learning and teacher collaboration. Leveraging a, FLASH 1st strategy to combines a small amount of Flash capacity with the FAST Suite, has transformed the way TDSB configures its IT environment. As TDSB grows, it expects a 38% reduction in Flash tier costs with new storage efficiency enhancements.

Customer Benefits:

• Reduced Footprint & Energy Costs—As a result of server consolidation with Hyper-V and a transition from an all SAS configuration to a FLASH 1st  strategy, TDSB saw a reduction in capacity requirements by 32% and a decrease in energy expenses by 22%
• Better Performance for Microsoft Applications—TDSB's FLASH 1st strategy has resulted in an overall storage performance increase of 21%, powering faster Microsoft SQL transactions and improved collaboration among staff and students.
• Increased Backup Efficiency—Using EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems, TDSB's data backup storage requirements have been decreased by over 90%.

Customer Challenges and Solution:

TDSB is comprised of 600+ schools, 250,000 students and 40,000 staff members. With tight budgets and rapid data growth, TDSB needed to lower its cost per terabyte and increase storage density without requiring additional data center space in order to continue to provide a high level of IT services to faculty, staff and students. TDSB faced challenges with its backup windows, which were running into school hours and impacting performance.

Residents from EMC Global Services provided skills support and knowledge transfer, enabling TDSB to transform its IT infrastructure with EMC VNX. Previous disparate Block-level and network-attached storage (NAS) were consolidated onto a single, unified VNX solution, running its mission-critical applications, including Microsoft Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, SharePoint, Office, OCS, and Dot Net Nuke (CMS) as well as SAP. EMC Residency Services helped speed time to value of TDSB's new technology implementation and improved the management and support of its information infrastructure.

By employing a FLASH 1st strategy on their VNX, TDSB has seen an increase in performance and a substantial improvement in storage efficiency. Previously, the IT team had to purchase an abundance of Fibre Channel drives, with some being underutilized while others were over-subscribed. With Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools (FAST VP) and FAST Cache along with a mix of Flash and high-capacity, cost effective disk drives, the data is automatically placed on the most appropriate drive type, saving valuable resource time and smoothing out unexpected bursts in activity. TDSB credits the FLASH 1st strategy and Hyper-V virtualization for the enhanced management simplicity and overall reduction in both CapEx and OpEx.

In addition, TDSB replaced its tape backup environment with EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems, resulting in reduced backup times and a decrease in backup storage requirements by over 90%.

Customer Quotes:

Peter Singh, Senior Manager, IT Operations, Toronto District School Board

"EMC's VNX unified storage has the best performance and efficiency at a very cost-effective price. It integrates with Microsoft Hyper-V, which is crucial to our cloud strategy, and with its higher performance, automated storage tiering, and thin provisioning, VNX was a no-brainer."

"Implementing a 'FLASH 1st' strategy on VNX helped us attain a greener data center, reducing our storage space by 32% and decreasing our power cost by 22%. We actually received a rebate from our electric company because of the savings.”

"EMC's Residency offering was one of the best services we've used from any vendor. To have an EMC expert on site, working as an extension of our staff, was priceless. It allowed us to move forward with the project much more quickly than doing everything ourselves."

Zain Bhamjee, System Architect, Toronto District School Board

"With a storage infrastructure that's reached 325 terabytes and growing, we're always looking for ways to leverage our IT dollars to bring the most value to our teachers and students. EMC's comprehensive array of storage, software, and services are enabling us to transform and achieve the most efficiency, performance, and scalability we've seen yet. Additionally, the new features for the VNX family, including lower starting costs for Flash configurations, are exciting additions to these existing advantages--we're looking forward to reaping the cost and efficiency benefits of these new capabilities."

"Tasks that once took five clicks now get done in one with Unisphere. We're supporting our 325-terabyte storage environment with less than one and a half FTEs. Most shops would need three to five FTEs to manage an infrastructure our size."

Additional Resources:

• Customer Profile: Toronto District School Board
• Analyst Paper: Saving Time and Money with Savvy Use of Flash in Automated Storage Tiering
• White Paper: EMC Multisite Disaster Recovery for Microsoft SQL Server 2012
• Learn more about EMC VNX and Data Domain
• Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and ECN

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

Second Annual Dell Storage Forums to be held in Boston and Paris Unite Industry Leaders, Customers and Partners in Discussion of the Current State of Data Management

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In response to strong demand from Dell customers and channel partners, Dell Storage Forum will take place on June 10-13, 2012 in Boston and on Nov. 13-16, 2012 in Paris.

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Computerworld Recognizes Dell for Support of Childhood Cancer Research

IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program has recognized Dell as a 2012 Laureate for its commitment of funding, employee engagement and cloud computing technology in support of childhood cancer care research globally. The annual award program honors visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change.

Dell is being recognized in the “Emerging Technology” category for providing the secure cloud-based IT infrastructure for the world’s first personalized medicine trial for pediatric cancer conducted by the Neuroblastoma and Medulloblastoma Translational Research Consortium (NMTRC) and supported by The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). 

For more, click the link below:

http://content.dell.com/us/en/corp/d/secure/2012-03-29-dell-computerworld-cancer-research.aspx

Premiere Global Sports Deploys Symantec Solutions to Secure and Back Up Virtual Systems

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Premiere Global Sports Deploys Symantec Solutions to Secure and Back Up Virtual Systems

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 27, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Premiere Global Sports, a provider of specialized sports travel and hospitality products is using Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition and Symantec Backup Exec to centralize protection of the company’s distributed endpoints. While Premiere Global Sports is a small business, the data they produce is growing on an enterprise scale and thus needs the protection of an enterprise-class solution. Since the deployment, Premiere Global Sports can protect, back up, and provide disaster recovery capabilities for its virtualized business systems.

Premiere Global Sports has grown by acquisition over the last decade, and as a result, most of its 75 full-time employees are distributed across the United States. Consequently, all of its endpoints were managed individually with a variety of antivirus products.

“Many of the companies we acquired were flying by the seat of their pants and didn’t have time to focus on IT infrastructure,” said Jason Drake, Premiere Global Sports’ director of infrastructure and security. “We were tasked with choosing expandable platforms that can meet more needs than we have right now.”

Centralizing Endpoint Protection

Based on past positive experiences, Drake selected Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition to centralize protection of its distributed endpoints and to protect multiple independent servers and dozens of Windows endpoints. In addition to endpoint security, the Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition license includes email server security, email and web gateway virtual appliances, and desktop system recovery. The Enterprise Edition will accommodate Premiere Global Sports’ future growth.

“Having Symantec Protection Suite in place—especially with its defense against zero-day threats—definitely makes me feel more at ease,” Drake said. “By leveraging the new security management solution, we can pinpoint security threats and increase the productivity of our security operations.”

Reliable Backup and Recovery for a Virtualized IT Environment

To support Premiere Global Sports’ growing business, Drake and his team chose Symantec Backup Exec to reduce downtime and ensure critical information on both their virtual and physical systems is always protected and restored in seconds.

“Our IT environment is 90 – 95 percent virtualized, and we continue to leverage this technology to reduce costs and the number of physical servers,” said Drake. “We have trusted Backup Exec to backup our data for several years and the transition from a physical server infrastructure to virtual infrastructure didn’t change our choice in a data protection solution.”

Backup Exec simplifies both backup and disaster recovery, allowing Drake to focus on strategic programs. Plus, Premiere Global Sports will soon begin beta testing Backup Exec 2012 as its deduplication features will streamline backup operations even further.

“Based on my testing, Backup Exec gives me the ability to recover both physical and virtual systems in case of a catastrophe,” Drake said. “Symantec’s V-Ray technology embedded in Backup Exec also allows us to easily expand to a virtual environment and feel confident in our decision.”

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

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HP Helps U.S. Storage Partners Expand Revenue Opportunities, Profitability with "100 Percent" Channel Initiatives

Topics:Technology and Innovation

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- HP today announced two new sales initiatives that stimulate growth and expand revenue opportunities for U.S. channel partners. The new initiatives include:

• The 100 Percent New Accounts Initiativedrives incremental revenue and a new level of predictability for HP Storage partners by funneling all sales of HP Storage products to new U.S. accounts through channel partners.⁽¹⁾
• The 100 Percent LeftHand and StoreOnce Initiative accelerates growth for HP partners by funneling all high-profit HP LeftHand Storage and HP StoreOnce Backup orders generated by new storage accounts or repeat customers in the United States through an authorized HP Storage partner.⁽¹⁾

“The storage market continues to rapidly grow as businesses create and manage more and more information every day,” said Matt Troka, senior vice president of Product and Partner Management at CDW, an HP channel partner. “By pushing all new storage business to partners, HP has demonstrated its commitment to CDW’s success and, at the same time, is building additional trust and goodwill with the channel.”

Under the terms and conditions of the 100 Percent New Accounts Initiative, new registered sales opportunities of HP Storage products will be fulfilled by, and remain in, the channel. This includes high-growth HP Converged Storage products, HP 3PAR Storage, HP StoreOnce Backup, HP LeftHand Storage, HP IBRIX Storage, HP X5000 Storage and the rest of the HP Storage portfolio.

The 100 Percent LeftHand and StoreOnce Initiative includes commercial emerging-growth accounts, as well as state, local and education deals.

Both initiatives drive increased sales engagement for HP Storage partners with the HP direct sales force. Whether a sales lead is identified by HP or a partner, HP will always funnel these new business and up-sell opportunities through U.S. channel partners.

More customers, more deals, more margin
The new channel partner initiatives complement the recently announced HP ServiceONE Partner Support for Storage program, which enables qualified partners to pursue new business opportunities by combining HP and partner-branded services to bolster portfolios.

With access to sales, deployment and maintenance opportunities, partners have the potential to compete for and win significant customer deals, as well as increase profit margins.

“With these new programs, HP is driving more storage sales opportunities and profitable growth potential to reseller partners than any other vendor,” said Chris Riley, vice president, Americas, Storage, HP. “HP is helping partners increase revenue with HP 3PAR, HP StoreOnce and HP LeftHand products by bringing them more opportunities than ever before.”

HP’s premier client event, HP Discover, takes place June 4-7 in Las Vegas.

About HPHP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world’s largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

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(1) Any end-user account that HP has not sold storage to in the last three years. Deals registration is required to drive alignment. This strategic policy change becomes effective immediately for all new opportunities, whether identified by HP or by the channel partner. Implicit in this policy is the assurance that every registered Storage New Business Opportunity (NBO) is now guaranteed to stay in the channel. Outside of HP Global Accounts, opportunities where storage cannot be unbundled from the overall HP Solution, or select opportunities where HP is contractually obligated to fulfill direct, such as the public sector.

News Release from Symantec - Backup Management

Symantec Announces Global Availability of NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012

NetApp to Resell Symantec’s Replication Director Option to Unify Snapshot and Backup Management

 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 13, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Symantec NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012 are now available worldwide to help businesses of any size seamlessly transform and modernize their outdated, complex and resource-intensive backup strategy. Symantec is also announcing an agreement with NetApp to resell the new NetBackup Replication Director option, enabling customers to unify Snapshot and replication management within NetBackup, and remove the cost and risk associated with multiple backup and recovery tools. Replication Director enables organizations to reduce management costs and complexity by recovering and managing backup and replicated snapshots from a single NetBackup management console.

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With the global availability of Backup Exec 2012 and NetBackup 7.5, Symantec is providing customers and partners with a set of best-in-breed solutions that eliminate the problems that have plagued traditional backup in the past – complexity, time and resources required to manage the backup process, and the need for multiple point products to ensure a successful backup and recovery process. A recent Symantec survey of 1,400 IT professionals worldwide further demonstrates the industry-wide need for a newer and faster approach to backup, with 28 percent stating that they have too many backup tools and 72 percent citing their willingness to switch backup products if their speed doubled.

News Highlights

• NetBackup 7.5 increases backup speeds up to 100 times, improves the ability to recover and makes it possible to integrate NetApp® Snapshots™ with backup. It also simplifies the search and recovery of files for legal holds.
• Backup Exec 2012 has revolutionized its management console, setting a new standard for intuitive design, reduced complexity across physical and virtual environments, and highly comprehensive disaster recovery. More than 1,000 partners participated in the Backup Exec 2012 Partner Beta program and more than 2,000 customers and partners participated in the First Availability Early Adopters program, allowing them to install the final build prior to the general availability of Backup Exec 2012.
• Symantec also announced an expanded agreement with NetApp to resell NetBackup Replication Director to enable IT administrators to centralize the management of NetBackup and NetApp Snapshots and replication (SnapVault® and SnapMirror®) for faster backup and recovery. The partnership enables NetApp and Symantec to provide customers with a powerful combination of features and benefits delivered by these two technology leaders.
• Symantec is listed as a Champion in Info-Tech Research Group’s “Enterprise Backup Software Vendor Landscape” report, which helps enterprise IT decision-makers identify a short list of vendors for their IT programs depending on their needs. According to the report, “On a relative basis, Symantec maintained the highest Info-Tech Value Score of the vendor group. Vendors were indexed against Symantec’s performance to provide a complete, relative view of their product offerings.”
• Backup Exec 2012 is also VMware Ready Data Protection certified for vSphere 5.0. This certification includes support for new features in vSphere 5.0 including the Hardware Version 8 format of virtual machines, datastore clusters, vSphere Storage DRS, and Storage vMotion.
• Symantec offers an array of delivery models including software, appliance and cloud solutions to seamlessly integrate into any IT infrastructure. In addition to integration with Nirvanix, NetBackup now supports cloud storage from AT&T, Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. The new Backup Exec Cloud DR Option powered by Doyenz, the leading recovery as a service provider – is expected to be available in the first half of FY13 and enable cloud-based application recovery in less than 15 minutes. Symantec’s Backup Exec also includes backup to the cloud through Nirvanix.
• Symantec's SaaS-based backup and recovery service Backup Exec.cloud is also available in the United States, Canada and Europe for purchase directly from Symantec partners or direct from Symantec.
• Symantec is the only leading backup provider to offer converged backup and deduplication appliances that seamlessly support disk, tape, and cloud storage targets and offer a single contact for support. The NetBackup 5220 appliance, introduced in October 2011, recently won an award in the “2011 Backup Hardware of the Year” category from the SearchStorage.com Product of the Year awards, beating out a number of established backup hardware competitors.
• Symantec’s breadth of backup products helps customers realize significant cost savings while better protecting their business information. Symantec is committed to driving out 80 percent of the operating costs associated with backup over the next five years.

Supporting Quotes

• “With Symantec solutions, backup has never been simpler,” confirmed Deepak Mohan, senior vice president, Information Management Group, Symantec. “We are committed to providing businesses with the tools they need to manage their information now and as the explosion in data continues. With NetBackup 7.5 and Backup Exec 2012, we are leading the way in the fight against complex and time consuming processes and mitigate the risk of data loss.”
• "BackupExec 2012 has become an integral part of our IT infrastructure as it supports our virtualization strategy and allows us to keep six months of data online without having to go to tape— saving us a considerable amount in storage costs,” said Scott Gould, senior network & systems analyst, Gynecologic Oncology Group Statistical & Data Center. “Plus, BackupExec 2012 is extremely easy to use so everyone on our IT staff can set up backups, manage backup policies and perform disaster recoveries, which is ideal for smaller IT departments.”
• “We use Symantec NetBackup to protect more than 800 Exchange databases—over two petabytes of data in seven datacenters, with 99 percent accuracy on backups and 99 percent success rate on recoveries. And we use it for 20 to 30 recoveries a week,” said Jonathan McCormick, COO of leading cloud service provider and hosted Exchange provider, Intermedia. “Symantec NetBackup 7.5 provides us with a single integrated appliance to simplify all of our backup deployment and operations. The confidence we get from Symantec NetBackup is a good feeling.”
• “We have been looking forward to NetBackup 7.5, due to its support for vSphere 5. We’ve been using NetBackup 7’s innovative integration with VMware vSphere for a couple of years, and we have dramatically improved the protection for our rapidly-growing virtual environment by moving the agents “out of the guest” with NetBackup,” said Seth H. Bokelman, senior systems administrator, University of Northern Iowa. “We’re also looking forward to implementing the NetBackup Accelerator technology, as it will make backups much faster on some of our large file servers.”

Related

• Infographic: What Causes Data Protection C.O.S.T.S. to Increase
• Press Kit: Symantec Delivers Better Backup for All
• Webcast: Better Backup for All
• Webcast: NetBackup 7.5 Technical Deep Dive
• Webcast: What’s new with Backup Exec 2012
• Download Free Backup Exec 2012 Trialware
• SlideShare: Better Backup for All
• Blog Post: Virtual Visibility: Why you need X-Ray Vision to Backup Virtual Machines
• Blog Post: NetApp Storage Efficiency Insights
• Survey: Broken Backup Environments Need New Approach
• Website: Countdown to Better Backup
• Video: Managing and Reducing Costs of Enterprise Data Protection Video featuring Dave Russell, Gartner and Brian Dye, Symantec

Connect with Symantec

• Follow Symantec on Twitter
• Follow NetBackup on Twitter
• Follow BackupExec on Twitter
• Join Symantec on Facebook
• View Symantec’s SlideShare Channel
• Subscribe to Symantec News RSS Feed
• Visit Symantec Connect Business Community

About Storage from Symantec

Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven world with storage management, archiving, eDiscovery, backup & recovery solutions.

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

News Release from Avnet - Agreement with EMC

March 13, 2012 - Avnet Technology Solutions Americas Expands Agreement with EMC Corporation to Include Avnet Embedded

TEMPE, Ariz. -- Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), announced today an expanded distribution agreement with EMC Corporation to now offer EMC solutions through Avnet Embedded, a division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas. Avnet Embedded maintains a shared selling organization supporting both Avnet Technology Solutions Americas and Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas, two business regions of Avnet, Inc.

This expanded agreement leverages the success of the long-standing relationship between Avnet and EMC. As one of the primary distributors of EMC technologies, Avnet Technology Solutions has helped partners grow their mid-market storage business profitably with EMC solutions for more than 12 years.

Avnet Embedded will now offer EMC® VNX and VNXe® unified storage solutions, EMC Isilon® scale-out NAS systems, and the EMC Atmos® Cloud Storage Platform as part of its Build OEM Better™ program. This program provides a lower total cost of ownership, reduced manufacturing time, flexibility and scalability via a global footprint of integration and service support for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and independent software vendors (ISVs). The addition of EMC enables Avnet to offer OEMs the opportunity to customize their storage and software solutions and capitalize on a single interface, often leveraging a single (IP) fabric to more easily implement back-up recovery. Avnet customers can also virtualize their applications to increase ease and consistency of deployment; consolidate physical infrastructure (in development and in the field); offer their application as a service (from their own or hosted data centers); and improve reliability and scale.

Utilizing EMC's proven portfolio of bundled storage, software and application solutions, OEMs can move quickly from design to deployment of end applications ranging from telecommunications to manufacturing, media to life sciences-all backed by Avnet's technical expertise and outstanding customer support team.

"By leveraging the highly-acclaimed Build OEM Better™ program, Avnet's OEM customers can easily embed EMC's industry-leading systems and software within their OEM solutions, as well as take delivery of integrated, turnkey systems for rapid deployment to their end-customers," said Joe Eazor, executive vice president for Global Accounts and OEM at EMC. "EMC is excited to work with Avnet Embedded to help its partners deliver customers proven technology solutions that are reliable, efficient and easy to use."

"Our OEM customers are looking for IT storage solutions that are simple, reliable and repeatable," said Chuck Kostalnick, senior vice president, Avnet Embedded. "Adding EMC to our Americas offering provides Avnet's customers with a faster way to deliver enterprise-class performance and next-generation solutions."

Connect with Avnet Embedded

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Learn more about Build OEM Better

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About Avnet Technology Solutions

As a global IT solutions distributor, Avnet Technology Solutions collaborates with its customers and suppliers to create and deliver services, software and hardware solutions that address the business needs of their end-user customers locally and around the world. For fiscal year 2011, the group served customers in more than 70 countries and generated US $11.5 billion in annual revenue. Avnet Technology Solutions (www.ats.avnet.com) is an operating group of Avnet, Inc.

About Avnet Electronics Marketing

Avnet Electronics Marketing is an operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet, Inc. that serves electronic original equipment manufacturers (EOEMs) and electronic manufacturing services (EMS) providers in more than 70 countries, distributing electronic components from leading manufacturers and providing associated design-chain and supply-chain services. The group's website is located atwww.em.avnet.com.

About Avnet

Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology serving customers in more than 70 countries worldwide. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended July 2, 2011, Avnet generated revenue of $26.5 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.

News Release from EMC

EMC Delivers "No Compromise" Technology, Solutions and Services for Microsoft SQL Server 2012

EMC Portfolio Enables 80% Faster Provisioning, 4X Better Performance and Up To 30X Less Backup Storage for SQL Server Applications

HOPKINTON, Mass. - March 6, 2012

News Summary:

• EMC® today announced broad technology support, new EMC Proven™ Solutions and Consulting Services for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to help customers deploy SQL Server for mission critical data center applications.
• By leveraging EMC best-in-class technology and services with the latest SQL Server 2012 functionality, customers can increase performance and maximize data availability at a lower cost.
• New EMC Consulting services provide customers a defined path for seamless migration and adoption of SQL Server 2012 and help customers take advantage of SQL Server 2012's breakthrough insights functionality to turn data into business intelligence and competitive advantage.

Full Story:

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced broad technology support, new EMC Proven Solutions and Consulting Services for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 to help customers deploy SQL Server for mission critical data center applications. By leveraging EMC best-in-class technology and services with the latest SQL Server functionality, customers can increase performance and maximize data availability at a lower cost. New EMC Consulting services provide customers a defined path for seamless migration and adoption of SQL Server 2012 and help customers take advantage of SQL Server 2012's breakthrough insights functionality to turn data into business intelligence and competitive advantage.

EMC's Industry Leading Storage Platforms Optimized for Microsoft SQL Server 2012

In October 2011, an IDC¹ survey of Enterprise end-users named EMC the #1 storage choice for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and other mission critical environments. The survey ranks storage vendors on how end-users are deploying their technology with enterprise applications, and it shows that more customers choose EMC storage than any other storage for their Microsoft environments.

By leveraging EMC technologies to address SQL Server 2012 requirements customers can:

• Achieve 80% faster SQL Server provisioning with EMC® VNX™ Unified Storage;
• Automate the allocation of SQL 2012 Server storage and eliminate 95% of the typical manual storage calculation times with EMC Symmetrix® VMAXe® 100% Virtual Provisioning;
• Experience 4X more performance of SQL Server 2012 server and storage resources at a lower cost using EMC FAST (Fully Automated Storage Tiering) software, and EMC VFCache™ server flash caching solution;
• Complete more backups in less time with up to 30X less storage with EMC backup and recoverysolutions.

New EMC Proven Solutions and Consulting Services Designed for Mission Critical SQL Server 2012 Environments

EMC today announced two new EMC Proven Solutions to help customers leverage the newest features in SQL Server 2012.

• EMC SQL Server 2012 Readiness – Performance with VMAXe FAST VP and SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Local Availability Groups – This solution documents technology considerations for utilizing the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups with EMC FAST VP and EMC VMAXe. The focus of this solution is to create availability groups on a FAST VP enabled VMAXe to support business requirements for read-only secondary database replicas. This approach allows for the dedication of the primary replica for mission critical online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads while isolating OLAP/BI demands.
• EMC SQL Server 2012 Multi-Site Disaster Recovery – Enabled by SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups, EMC VNX and FAST Suite – This solution documents technology considerations for utilizing the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups, with EMC FAST Suite and EMC VNX unified storage. The focus of this solution is to utilize the new SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn transaction-level replication technology to maximize the availability of a set of user databases between two distant sites while enabling the database storage efficiency and performance to be optimized by using EMC FAST Suite on VNX 5700.

New EMC Consulting services designed for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 help business and IT stakeholders to maximize their investment in SQL Server. The services also enable the customer's environment to support mission critical application quality of service requirements and enable pervasive business intelligence for competitive advantage.

• The new Upgrade/Migration Service for Microsoft SQL Server 2012 helps customers efficiently plan, manage, and execute their transition to the SQL Server 2012 platform.
• The new EMC Consulting Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI) service helps customers empower their business users to quickly develop reports, dashboards, and scorecards without direct support from IT resources. During this service, EMC Consulting creates an interface to existing BI systems using SQL Server tools and exposes the data in a Microsoft SharePoint-based user interface.

A Diamond Sponsor of the SQL Server 2012 launch, as well as a Microsoft Certified Partner with 19 gold and silver competencies and a 21-time Microsoft Partner of the Year, EMC offers customers innovative information infrastructure, solutions and services optimized for their Microsoft environments. EMC Consulting, a business unit within EMC Global Services, works closely with Microsoft Corporation to develop and deliver services and solutions that help customers streamline deployment, migration and management of their Microsoft technology platforms. EMC Consulting accelerates its customers' journey to the private cloud through innovative and efficient use of information infrastructures to provide an optimal opportunity to federate information resources across cloud architectures.

Microsoft Quote:

Eduardo Rosini, Corporate Vice President, SQL Server Marketing, Microsoft

"SQL Server 2012 and EMC Solutions and Application services help our customers address mission critical performance, availability and data protection requirements. EMC's announcement of new consulting services that leverage Microsoft BI tools will enable our customers to use their data more competitively – providing breakthrough insights."

Customer Quotes:

Andy Fuss, Director of Technology and Engineering of CharterCARE Health Partners

"With the formation of CharterCARE Health Partners by two large, Rhode Island community hospitals, and the convergence of multiple IT infrastructures, we were faced with enormous data growth. It was clear that our traditional tape-based backup approach had reached its end. EMC Data Domain^®deduplication storage systems and EMC Networker^® as an integrated backup solution allowed us to make a transformational shift in our backup strategy. We have dramatically reduced our backup window and increased both efficiency and reliability of our SQL Server related backup process today – as well as giving us confidence as we plan to roll out SQL Server 2012. EMC has given our IT team the ability to focus on what’s most important: protecting our core business, protecting our patients, and offering the highest quality of healthcare services.”

Brian Carpenter, Vice President of Information Technology, Heritage Auctions

"SQL Server is the lifeblood of Heritage Auctions (HA.com). We use it to provide our customers with a massive amount of data, a meaningful experience on our website, and historical information to help them make educated buying and selling decisions. Consolidating our mission-critical Microsoft SQL Server infrastructure on EMC Symmetrix VMAXe has opened the door for us to go full throttle with our most strategic initiatives, from the latest Microsoft releases to virtualization to Big Data. We have the utmost confidence that when we roll out SQL Server 2012, VMAXe is going to be ready to perform and handle the increases in workload and changes in processing."

Daniel Mettling, Information Technology Manager, Park Industries

"As our business evolves, we're constantly seeking more opportunities to improve our responsiveness and streamline data processes to save time. The level of integration provided by EMC VNXe unified storage streamlines management of our SQL Server environment while the flexibility of centralized access provides us with a broad snapshot across our systems at a moment's notice. VNXe gives us the tools to make snap decisions about storage management and report to employees without interrupting our day-to-day business, meaning we save time, and ultimately, thousands of dollars."

EMC Executive Quote:

Prasad Rampalli, Senior Vice President, EMC Solutions Group, EMC Corporation

"EMC is committed to helping our customers make a seamless and effortless transition to SQL Server 2012 without compromising on performance, efficiency, simplicity or affordability. We've customized our engineering best practices, optimized our storage solutions to support SQL Server 2012, and have tailored our consulting services so that customers of all sizes are equipped with what they need to enable them to maximize information across their organization."

Dave Cox, Vice President, EMC Consulting, EMC Corporation

"Our new EMC Consulting services are right on target with EMC's strategy to support organizations' move to ITaaS so that they can better manage the massive amounts of data they are generating. EMC has the proven industry knowledge and technology expertise required to help SQL Server customers efficiently accelerate upgrades and realize the maximum value of their information."

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