Oracle Press Release

Oracle Executive Keynote Lineup for Oracle OpenWorld 2012 Announced

Redwood Shores, Calif. – August 28, 2012

News Facts

In the lead-up to Oracle OpenWorld 2012, Oracle today announced the Oracle executive keynote lineup. This is the first of a series of keynote announcements Oracle will make in the next several weeks.

This year, Oracle executives will feature insights into industry trends, the latest technology developments and innovations as well as key strategies for achieving business efficiency and innovation. They will be joined by special guests to discuss important business drivers such as engineered systems, cloud computing, business analytics and big data, and customer experience.

Oracle OpenWorld 2012 takes place September 30 – October 4, 2012 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Oracle Executive Keynote Lineup

Sunday, September 30 | 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. | Moscone North, Hall D

Welcome Keynote – “Hardware and Software, Engineered to Work Together: Why It’s A Different Approach”: Larry Ellison, Oracle Chief Executive Officer, will discuss how Oracle’s approach to delivering hardware and software that is engineered to work together is changing the face of IT.

Monday, October 1 | 8:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Moscone North, Hall D

“Shift Complexity”: Mark Hurd, Oracle President, will kick off the first full day of Oracle OpenWorld by hosting a discussion on removing complexity from a business that requires thinking differently about how IT delivers value to companies. Topics discussed will include: what’s next for the database, how simplifying and consolidating IT systems can benefit everyone from the DBA to the CEO, and how the data center and information systems are fundamentally changing the ways that IT services are delivered and managed. Oracle Senior Vice President of Oracle Database Development, Andrew Mendelsohn, will also join the stage.

Tuesday, October 2 | 8:45 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. | Moscone North, Hall D

“The Oracle Cloud: Oracle’s Cloud Platform and Applications Strategy”: Thomas Kurian, Oracle Executive Vice President of Product Development, along with leading Oracle customers will discuss how Oracle's complete suite of cloud platform technology and cloud applications are transforming how organizations manage their business, excite and retain their employees, and deliver great customer experiences.

Tuesday, October 2 | 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Moscone North, Hall D

“The Oracle Cloud: Where Social Is Built In”: Larry Ellison, Oracle Chief Executive Officer, will provide insight into Oracle’s Oracle Cloud Social Services strategy, the broadest and most complete enterprise social platform in the cloud today, and how those services are integrated with Oracle Cloud Application Services to improve customer and employee experience.

Wednesday, October 3 | 8:45 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. | Moscone North, Hall D

“Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and Engineered Systems: Fast, Reliable, Virtualized”:
John Fowler, Oracle Executive Vice President of Systems, Edward Screven, Oracle Chief Corporate Architect, and Juan Loaiza, Oracle Senior Vice President of Systems Technology, will explain what hardware and software engineered together can do for the cloud, and how Oracle itself applies these products to its own problems with great scale and efficiency. 

Thursday, October 4 | 9:45 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. | Moscone North, Hall D

“See More, Act Faster: Oracle Business Analytics”: Oracle President Mark Hurd will highlight how customers can use Oracle’s data management and in-memory business intelligence solutions to see more, act faster, and make critical business decisions. He will be joined by Oracle customers who will share best practices of the use of big data and Oracle’s analytics solutions to drive better business outcomes.

Supporting Quote

“This year the Oracle keynotes at OpenWorld will feature discussions on some of the most innovative enterprise technologies driving business today,” said Tania Weidick, Vice President, Oracle Marketing. “Stay tuned for more - Over the next several weeks we’ll be announcing additional keynotes from luminaries across IT, business and top industries around the world that will help our customers navigate the changing IT and business landscape.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle OpenWorld 2012

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About Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco, is the most important educational and networking event of the year for Oracle technologists, customers, and partners. This information technology event is dedicated to helping businesses optimize existing systems and understand upcoming technology breakthroughs. The conference, which draws more than 50,000 attendees from over 110 countries, offer more than 2,100 educational sessions, 400 product demos, exhibitions from 450 partners showcasing applications, middleware, database, server and storage systems, industries, management and infrastructure – all engineered for innovation. Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is being held September 30-October 4 at The Moscone Center in San Francisco. For more information or to register, please visit www.oracle.com/openworld. Watch Oracle OpenWorld keynotes, sessions and more live on YouTube. Join the Oracle OpenWorld discussion on Twitter, Facebook and the Oracle OpenWorld Blog.

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com

Independent Software Vendor Migrates to Windows Azure

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Independent Software Vendor Gradatim Migrates to Windows Azure, Helping Reduce Deployment Time by 84 Percent While Saving $2 Million

Microfinance software specialist simplifies infrastructure, optimizes customer delivery, and expands capability and global scalability by adopting Microsoft cloud services platform.

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NEW DELHI — March 27, 2012 — Independent software vendor Gradatim, a specialist in creating technology solutions for businesses that offer microfinance products and services, migrated to the Windows Azure cloud platform to simplify its service configuration and gain global scalability, achieving an 84 percent decrease in project deployment time and saving an estimated $2 million (U.S.). In 2011, Gradatim evaluated a number of shared services platforms, including IBM SmartCloud, and selected Windows Azure, the Microsoft cloud services development, hosting and management environment. “We wanted a platform-as-a-service solution, not just cloud infrastructure,” said CV Prakash, founder and CEO of Gradatim. “We concluded that Windows Azure offered the best long-term value and the most reliable cloud platform for transforming our business.” “Microfinance” describes the market for financial instruments such as loans and insurance policies, which involve small principal and transaction amounts. Service providers must be agile enough to quickly develop low-cost, custom products that can be accessed anywhere, including on mobile devices. To capitalize on the growing demand for its insurance policy and loan management applications, Gradatim chose to migrate its solutions to Windows Azure to achieve simplicity and global scalability. By eliminating the need to set up datacenters and invest in server hardware to deliver its solutions, Gradatim substantially reduced its operating expenses. The company estimates that the cost savings from adopting Windows Azure will total about $2 million (U.S.) over the next 18 months. The company previously needed about three months to fully deploy its solutions to customers. The same work can now be done in two weeks, which represents an 84 percent increase in efficiency. “Faster deployments mean that we start generating revenue from each project faster, so we have more flexibility in the investment decisions that we make to grow our business,” Prakash said. The on-demand resource availability and scalability offered by Azure also helps the company spend less time planning customer deployments. Windows Azure allowed Gradatim to not only shift to cloud-based delivery of its products but also to make major improvements to its pricing model. Rather than buying a perpetual license to access the software, customers can choose to pay a nominal subscription fee, along with a percentage of the value of each transaction or a fixed fee for each loan or insurance policy they manage, using Gradatim technology. “We’ve been able to restructure our pricing to better align with the way customers across the industry consume our services,” Prakash said. “We are excited about the impact this migration has for Gradatim and its customers,” said Srikanth Karnakota, director, Server and Cloud Business, Microsoft India. “Azure has been enabling customers to innovate, reduce time to market and access newer markets. The current offering from Gradatim strengthens its position in the finance industry as a company focused on delivering affordable, high-caliber service.” More information on Gradatim’s move to Windows Azure is available in the Microsoft case study andMicrosoft News Center. Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

CCC Information Services Inc. Leverages Oracle Fusion Middleware to Help Optimize Efficiency, Increase Scalability and Support Performance Levels of its Claims Management Platform

Redwood Shores, Calif. – March 26, 2012

News Facts

CCC Information Services Inc. has selected an Oracle Fusion Middleware-based solution to help the company realize greater efficiency in its development environment and to deliver improved performance to its installed customer base of approximately 21,000 collision repair facilities, 350 insurance companies and a range of other claims industry participants.

CCC is the nation’s leading provider of advanced software, workflow tools and enabling technologies to the automotive claims and collision repair industries.

CCC is a customer advisor to Oracle through the Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategy Council.

With Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle SOA Suite 11g, Oracle Coherence and other Oracle Fusion Middleware products, including Oracle Identity Management, Oracle JDeveloper, andOracle WebCenter, CCC can simplify its technology environment and minimize development time, improving the company’s ability to quickly deliver enhanced solutions to customers.

CCC leverages Oracle WebLogic Server as its corporate standard to deploy enterprise applications in a highly available, high performance clustered environment.

Oracle WebLogic Server will also support a roles-based workflow to provide CCC customers with more intelligent routing and automatic approval for streamlined processing of claims.

CCC uses Oracle SOA Suite to manage processing for its more than one million daily claims-related transactions, which must be processed within a set timeframe. These transactions are of varying sizes and are distributed into the application grid, which then useOracle BPEL Process Manager to successfully process the transactions.

CCC is also in the process of consolidating several server racks into a dedicated Oracle Exadata Database Machine, to speed the processing of queries to its data warehouse.

Supporting Quote

“CCC’s relationship with Oracle has proven to be very valuable,” said Pervinder Johar, CTO and EVP Global Technology and Products for CCC Information Services Inc. “The Oracle solution has helped CCC improve our internal development run rate and offer more creative solutions for our clients. We are also pleased that our participation on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Strategy Council allows us to give direct feedback to Oracle executives based on our experiences with Oracle products and technologies.”

Supporting Resources

Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Cloud Application Foundation blog

Oracle WebLogic Server on OTN

Connect with Oracle WebLogic Server via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

About Oracle

Oracle engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center.  For more information about Oracle (NASDAQ:ORCL), visit www.oracle.com.

Adobe Partners with hybris on Commerce for Web Experience Management

Adobe Partners with hybris on Commerce for Web Experience Management

For immediate release

Adobe Solution to Enable Optimized Shopping Experiences Across Multiple Online Channels

SALT LAKE CITY, Adobe Digital Marketing Summit — March 21, 2012 — Adobe Systems Incorporated(Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced it is partnering withhybris, a leading provider of multichannel commerce and communication software, to provide digital marketers comprehensive commerce capabilities as part of Adobe’s solution for powering online customer experiences. The integration of hybris technology with Adobe® Web Experience Management (WEM), part of the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, is designed to deliver marketers and retailers an enterprise-class offering to manage and optimize the online buying process, from brand engagement to immersive shopping experiences to checkout.

“The ability to rapidly create great online experiences and deliver them across multiple channels is a key competitive advantage for businesses today,” said Kevin Cochrane, vice president of Product Strategy and Solution Marketing, Adobe. “And the pressure to differentiate from competition through the buying experience is enormous. From navigating on a desktop, smartphone or tablet to sharing product experiences on social media, e-commerce today is increasingly interactive and content-rich. Adobe WEM will help marketers and retailers rise to the increasing expectations of consumers.”

As part of the integrated offering, Adobe WEM, and its core, newly available Adobe CQ 5.5 software (see separate release), will deliver capabilities for both the front-end shopping experience and back-office merchandising and marketing publishing processes. This includes storefront content delivery capabilities, search and navigational elements, as well as checkout pages, product detail and imagery powered by hybris commerce functionality. Additionally, hybris Product Content Management software will drive product information and options, in addition to order fulfillment. The Adobe solution will also have ready access to online analytics, via the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite, to enable marketers to rapidly optimize content and maximize return on investment.

“Our partnership with Adobe will help close the gap between acquisition and checkout, providing our customers a platform to create consistent brand experiences across channels,” said Carsten Thoma, chief operating officer, hybris. “hybris’ modular design and use of industry standards enables customers to deploy solutions rapidly with a superior total cost of ownership.”

The ease-of-use of the integrated WEM solution will allow marketers to author and publish content, which lowers development costs, increases productivity and shrinks the time to go live. The feature-rich development environment will help IT be more agile, empowering them to rapidly develop and deploy new templates, designs and Web components to business users.

“Our digital strategy required building a robust brand platform engaging a large network of independent salons and professional hair stylists sitting seamlessly with international commerce,” said Stuart Spiegel, chief digital officer, ghd, a world leading professional hair styling brand. “We needed a solution that would scale to support our brand innovation requirements, present and future, and the combination of Adobe WEM and hybris provided that foundation. We are proud that key brand advocates, professional hair stylists and salons will now have unique tools to engage their clients.”

"Collaborating with ghd, we completed one of the early implementations of the combined Adobe WEM and hybris multi-channel commerce offering,” said Chris Andrasick, chief executive officer, Tacit Knowledge, a digital commerce consultancy. “A key differentiator was the pace with which ghd was up and running with a robust commerce site before peak period. The solution we've built will enable global expansion as needed."

Adobe and hybris sales and marketing teams will jointly sell and promote the integrated solution to customers worldwide. The companiesplan to work with global agency and system integrator partners, such as Acquity Group, Deloitte, SapientNitro, and Tacit Knowledge, to provide implementation services.

“Through our long-term work with Adobe and hybris, we know the significant strengths both provide for online experiences,” said Matt Schmeltz, chief marketing officer, Acquity Group. “The combination will offer customers best-in-class, integrated Web experience management and multi-channel business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce capabilities unmatched in the marketplace today. The integrated solution will dramatically speed our ability to bring customers to market.”

Availability
Integrated e-commerce capability as part of Adobe WEM is available now in beta and is targeted for general availability in the second calendar quarter of 2012.

About the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite
The Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite offers an integrated and open platform for online business optimization, a strategy for using customer insight to drive innovation throughout the business and enhance marketing efficiency. The Suite consists of integrated applications to collect and unleash the power of customer insight to optimize customer acquisition, conversion and retention efforts as well as the creation and distribution of content. For example, using the Suite, marketers can identify the most effective marketing strategies and ad placements as well as create relevant, personalized and consistent customer experiences across digital marketing channels, such as onsite, display, e-mail, social, video and mobile. The Suite enables marketers to make quick adjustments, automate certain customer interactions and better maximize marketing ROI, which, ultimately, can positively impact the bottom line.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated
Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

Adobe Adds Cross-Visit Analytics

Adobe Adds Cross-Visit Analytics to Digital Marketing Suite for Deeper Insight Into the Visitor Experience

Adobe Discover Helps Digital Marketers Gauge Visitor Interaction, Optimize Marketing Spend and Boost Conversion

March 19, 2012 12:04 AM Eastern Daylight Time 

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today unveiled the addition of cross-visit analytics and other cutting-edge capabilities to Adobe® Discover, an advanced analytics and segmentation solution within the Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite. Cross-visit analytics enables digital marketers to see a visitor’s journey within the marketers’ Web properties beyond single online sessions, giving those marketers a more accurate view of the overall visitor experience.

“We are using these new insights to inform design decisions and invest in the digital marketing initiatives that are having the greatest impact.”

“Consumers don’t interact with their favorite sites in discrete, unconnected visits,” said Matt Langie, director of product marketing, Digital Marketing Business, Adobe. “They do a search and hit your home page, read reviews, leave, get an email offer, price compare, come back and finally convert. The diversity and complexity of any one visitor’s experience over time yields very different insights than looking at each visit as a distinct, separate experience. Adobe Discover provides analytics that mirror the actual visitor experience.”

Discover also provides a clearer understanding of fallout, the reasons why purchases or conversions do not take place. With insight across visits within their properties, including why customers leave without converting, companies can more accurately allocate marketing spend to activities that will generate the most return on investment.

“With Adobe Discover, we can see a visitor’s experience over multiple visits. Cross-visit analytics is giving us new, deeper insights into how our audiences interact with us online – which of our digital properties they consume, in what order and over how long, before they engage in a key event, such as purchase a phone, download a piece of content or sign up for a new service,” said Andrew Wathen, web analyst, Vodafone. “We are using these new insights to inform design decisions and invest in the digital marketing initiatives that are having the greatest impact.”

The newest version of Discover has also made significant enhancements, allowing analysts to more quickly dissect and manipulate data across both user segments and time.

“With an expanding global viewership and a large number of digital properties, obtaining a clear picture of how our content is being accessed is a daunting task. Adobe Discover is enabling us to achieve critical insights quickly and accurately as we better understand our visitors across visits and time,” said Francis Lavelle, director of analytics, Discovery Communications. “Thanks to Discover, our digital analysts are leveraging better attribution models and advanced trending capabilities to more quickly see the best way forward as we respond to our customers’ content needs and appetites.”

These updates to Adobe Discover are expected to be available in April 2012.

About the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite

The Adobe® Digital Marketing Suite offers an integrated and open platform for online business optimization, a strategy for using customer insight to drive innovation throughout the business and enhance marketing efficiency. The Suite consists of integrated applications to collect and unleash the power of customer insight to optimize customer acquisition, conversion and retention efforts as well as the creation and distribution of content. For example, using the Suite, marketers can identify the most effective marketing strategies and ad placements as well as create relevant, personalized and consistent customer experiences across digital marketing channels, such as onsite, display, e-mail, social, video and mobile. The Suite enables marketers to make quick adjustments, automate certain customer interactions and better maximize marketing ROI, which, ultimately, can positively impact the bottom line.

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

© 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved. Adobe and the Adobe logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

News Release from GE Healthcare

14 March 2012

GE Healthcare and Intel to Establish Companies’ First Joint Technology Evaluation Laboratory in Israel

 

GE Healthcare and Intel to establish evaluation lab in Israel to align and optimize the companies' products.

14, March, 2012 Haifa, ISRAEL -- GE Healthcare, the healthcare division of General Electric and Intel Corporation announced today the creation of an evaluation lab in Israel in an effort to jointly test new technologies. The lab is located at the GE Healthcare premises in Tirat Carmel, in close proximity to the Intel R&D center in Haifa, with managers and employees from both companies leading the activities in the collaboration. The lab will focus on aligning and optimizing the companies’ products, such as Intel’s microprocessor technologies and GE Healthcare’s healthcare products, including ultrasound diagnostic imaging systems.

“The long term objective of this collaboration is to scale these activities to other GE product areas and use the lab as a worldwide hub for all Intel technologies and expertise,” said Michelle Tinsley, general manager of Intel’s Intelligent Systems Group. “As leaders in our respective industries, Intel and GE Healthcare aim to bring truly innovative technologies to the medical imaging industry.”
As part of the collaboration, GE Healthcare and Intel will provide technology and expertise support. In addition, GE Healthcare will provide hosting and operational management for the facility.
“This is an exciting collaboration between two global companies who are industry leaders in technology innovation,” said Mike Harsh, GE Vice President and GE Healthcare Chief Technology Officer. “The hope is that this partnership between GE and Intel will lead to the development of affordable and advanced healthcare technologies that ultimately will bring better healthcare to more people around the world.”

News Release from EMC

EMC ProSphere Transforms Storage Management Across Physical and VMware Virtualized Environments

ProSphere Enables Customers to Visualize, Analyze and Optimize Storage in Just 2-Clicks

HOPKINTON, Mass. - March 13, 2012

News Summary:

• Today EMC announced enhancements to EMC® ProSphere™ storage resource management software. Now—in just 2-clicks—EMC ProSphere enables IT organizations to understand capacity usage and trends, identify issues and assess impact, and analyze performance across physical and VMware virtualized environments.
• EMC ProSphere now supports EMC FAST VP™ (Fully Automated Storage Tiering for Virtual Pools), enabling customers to improve storage utilization through intuitive capacity dashboards and reporting, while proactively monitoring capacity consumption and service levels.
• EMC ProSphere has extended its monitoring and alerting capabilities, which now aggregates alerts from EMC Symmetrix VMAX/VMAXe and EMC VNX unified storage arrays, and displays the context required to quickly assess the impact tomeet storage service levels.
• EMC ProSphere enables administrators to visualize, analyze and optimize the storage environment to easily transform storage management and ensure consistent, timely, and cost-effective access to information.

Full Story:

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced enhancements to EMC ProSphere storage resource management software, enabling customers to understand how capacity is being used, track consumption trends to know when more storage will be required, and receive automated alerts across the storage environment to identify issues and quickly assess their impact—in just 2 clicks. The new capacity dashboards and reporting capabilities also feature new integration with EMC FAST VP. As enterprises remain focused on controling the cost of rapid data growth, technologies like EMC ProSphere and EMC FAST VP help increase utilization, reduce storage costs, improve performance levels, and create a more agile IT environment.

ProSphere enables IT Transformation in both physical and virtual worlds, allowing customers to manage IT-as-aService by monitoring and analyzing service levels from end-to-end. ProSphere enables customers to:

• Visualize relationhips and application dependencies across physical and virtual environment: ProSphere enables users to understand the complex relationships and dependencies between applications and storage services. This includes the ability to quickly spot performance, availability and configuration issues to identify situations that could impact service levels. ProSphere's federated architecture consolidates the view to a single pane of glass across data center sites.
• Analyze storage services to improve services levels: ProSphere helps customers quickly analyze and troubleshoot performance issues from the virtual guest down through the storage layers. It automatically tracks changes and analyzes compliance with configuration best practices and interoperability guidelines to ensure the environment is always configured to meet service level expectations. It also enables users to analyze alerts to quickly assess impact and take action.
• Optimize the storage infrastructure: ProSphere provides customers with the tools to optimize their storage infrastructure to better control storage costs. It tracks where and how capacity is consumed by service level, location and array. It helps administrators find available and reclaimable capacity to increase utilization. Trending analysis improves planning processes to ensure the right tier of capacity, at the right time, in the right location to meet business objectives. Tight integration with FAST VP allows customers to expand their use of this technology to further optimize their investments in EMC storage.

New Integration with FAST VP

EMC FAST VP allows IT to take a policy-based approach toward delivering IT as a service. With data growing rapidly, FAST VP is being adopted (see related news release) by EMC customers because of its ability to improve performance and efficiency. New integration between ProSphere and FAST VP automatically tracks the consumption of virtual pools to identify when new capacity will be required. This facilitates just-in-time purchasing to lower storage acquisition costs. It also displays performance trends from the virtual or physical host to virtual storage devices to identify the impact of FAST VP at the application level enabling organizations to make more effective storage tiering decisions. This significantly enhances IT's ability to lower costs while meeting and or exceeding service level objectives.

ProSphere's federated and scalable architecture—with the ability to manage more than 1.1 million volumes, 36,000 SAN ports, and 18,000 hosts—is designed to scale to meet the needs of small enterprises to the world's largest data centers. ProSphere's intuitive user interface is optimized to improve productivity in growing environments that are rapidly adopting virtualization. Extensive end-to-end visualization in physical and virtual environments helps storage teams understand application to storage dependencies across their data center.

Customer Quotes

Sarel Theron, Storage Administrator, Internet Solutions

"ProSphere's user interface is clean, simple to navigate and relevant. You experience this at first logon with a dashboard that presents you with a Storage Administrator's most important information at his finger tips."

George Nye, Storage & Data Protection Services Engineer III, Hospital of Saint Raphael

"The capacity views are extensive, they let me know exactly what I have, how it's used, and with the trending analysis clearly shows when I need to make the next storage purchase."

Partner Quote

Hatem Naguib, Vice President, Alliances, VMware

"ProSphere's integration with VMware vSphere® provides storage administrators with a holistic view of their storage infrastructure. Being able to quickly understand application dependencies, resource utilization and service levels—and take action in just a few clicks—is important. ProSphere in a VMware environment will enable customers to control the cost of storage while improving storage levels."

Industry Analyst Quote

Bob Laliberte, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group

"As enterprise customers' virtual environments flourish, they need an SRM solution—like EMC ProSphere--that assures storage service levels across the virtual infrastructure, controls the cost of capacity growth, and optimizes storage services to align with business objectives."

EMC Executive Quote

Jay Mastaj, Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMC Infrastructure Management Group

"Our customers' biggest challenge today is controling the costs of rapid data growth, while ensuring consistent service levels in both physical and virtual environments. EMC is committed to helping customers transform their IT infrastructures, and a huge piece of this is managing growth while reducing complexity. The new capacity dashboards and reporting in ProSphere will enhance customers' ability to control the costs of rapid data growth. Integration with VMware and FAST VP will help organizations get the most of their investments in EMC storage as they expand their use of virtualization. And, the new monitoring capabilities will allow organizations understand the health and performance of their storage infrastructure."

Additional Resources:

• Read the ProSphere data sheet
• Hear the EMC video
• Read the Enterprise Strategy Group paper
• Read the Managed View blog
• Watch the Enterprise Strategy Group video