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    Microsoft, EMC Set Sights on the Remote Office

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    March 4, 2004
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      In an effort to improve data protection and consolidation across organizations multiple branch sites, Microsoft Corp. joined EMC Corp. and its Legato software division on Thursday to unveil an integrated offering backed by a series of new educational seminars.

      The new business continuity solution being launched features Hopkinton, Mass.-based EMCs NetWin 200 using the companys CLARiiON CX network-attached storage (NAS) system on the front end running Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 software—built on Microsoft Windows Server System, as well as Legatos RepliStor software.

      Kicking off in Boston, the 10-city seminar roadshow is designed to show how organizations can incur better information management and reduce risk of downtime and outages by consolidating their remote facilities disparate storage systems onto EMCs and Microsofts newly married storage wares, according to Christopher Whyte, product manager of the Enterprise Storage Division for Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft. With that framework securely in place, data can rely on automatic failover and routine backups to a centralized data center location through Legatos replication software.

      According to analysts, a serious issue plaguing enterprise organizations with a series of branch offices is a dearth of expertise at remote facilities to handle day-to-day protection and data recovery issues. Since customers prefer to manage software in a Microsoft environment and Windows is the “predominant” solution in branch offices, the EMC and Microsoft business continuity offering allows companies to tie together and upgrade to a platform they are familiar with, noted Nancy Marrone-Hurley, senior analyst with Milford, Mass.-based Enterprise Storage Group.

      “The bottom line is the branch office issue is significant,” said Marrone-Hurley. “Customers dont want to have to buy piecemeal, they want a bundled solution. [Customers] have NetWin [200] on the front end and a Microsoft-oriented solution that Microsoft customers would be able to use their same Active Directory and file systems, and on the back end have EMC hardware.”

      Marrone-Hurley said the move underscores a commitment by EMC to cement its footprint in a relatively new target area for the storage behemoth, the remote office environment and the small and medium-sized business demographic.

      The EMC and Microsoft business continuity seminar series will continue on through New York; Atlanta; Chicago; Denver; Washington; Irvine, Calif.; Irving, Texas; Mountain View, Calif.; and Redmond.

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      Brian Fonseca
      Brian Fonseca is a senior writer at eWEEK who covers database, data management and storage management software, as well as storage hardware. He works out of eWEEK's Woburn, Mass., office. Prior to joining eWEEK, Brian spent four years at InfoWorld as the publication's security reporter. He also covered services, and systems management. Before becoming an IT journalist, Brian worked as a beat reporter for The Herald News in Fall River, Mass., and cut his teeth in the news business as a sports and news producer for Channel 12-WPRI/Fox 64-WNAC in Providence, RI. Brian holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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