EMC and Nortel Networks unveil new joint business continuity services

EMC Corporation and Nortel Networks used Storage Networking World as a platform to announce new joint services offering to help enterprises easily and more cost-effectively utilise optical metropolitan area networks (MAN) and wide area networks (WANs) for remote mirroring of their data.

The new offering, ‘Business Continuity over Optical Networks’, is an EMC Proven Solution and is available worldwide. It includes an integrated business continuity assessment from EMC and Nortel Networks that can help customers determine the optimal storage and connectivity requirements to meet their recovery objectives. This offering combines EMC's networked storage systems and remote replication software with Nortel Networks dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) technology to provide a flexible, scalable, geographically dispersed business continuity infrastructure.

"EMC and Nortel Networks are addressing one of the biggest pain points for customers - configuring their infrastructure to meet their business continuity requirements," said Sterling Perrin, senior research analyst, IDC. "Companies are strapped for resources and are feeling increasing pressure, including from regulators, to make sure they can recover quickly from a disaster. Services that help customers implement remote mirroring over optical networks will allow them to meet their business requirements while saving time and money on operations."

The jointly developed solutions integrate EMC's Symmetrix and CLARiiON networked storage systems and EMC's SRDF (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility), SRDF/A (Symmetrix Remote Data Facility/Asynchronous) and MirrorView remote replication software with Nortel Networks OPTera Metro 5000 Multiservice Platform.

"These solutions give customers the flexibility of selecting the EMC storage platform and replication software that best meets their needs, whether for synchronous or asynchronous replication," said Gregg Therkalsen, vice president, business continuity, EMC. "This range of choices will help customers of all sizes achieve the unparalleled protection that remote mirroring provides and will significantly shorten implementation times, while eliminating unnecessary costs. EMC and Nortel Networks have developed best practices based on our extensive expertise working with large banking, securities and telecommunications firms to create a joint solution set to help organisations better protect their information."

"This is a critical step in our work with EMC, ultimately benefiting enterprises by bringing them the highest quality business continuity solutions and extending productivity," said Marco Pagani, president, Optical Ethernet and Storage Solutions, Nortel Networks.

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•Date: 29th October 2003 •Region: N.America/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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