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EMC offers storage consulting services

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BANGALORE: EMC Corporation has announced that it has added open, platform-independent storage consulting services to its professional services portfolio. The new professional service offerings are being developed through a five-year "business transformation outsourcing" agreement with Accenture.



Business transformation outsourcing from Accenture is expected to help clients like EMC accelerate new strategic initiatives. "We are developing an open, platform-independent service strategy that will complement EMC's delivery of the world's most open networked storage solutions," said, EMC Senior Vice President, Global Services, Joseph Walton. "Just as EMC is creating platform-independent software through the AutoIS strategy, we are now developing a full range of consulting services for heterogeneous storage environments. This new group will provide customers with quantifiable measurements through business analysis of their organization's entire storage infrastructure and operation. This agreement will help grow, scale and transform a segment of our professional services organization into a best-in-class provider of storage consulting, and is a natural extension of our existing capabilities."



The Information Solutions Consulting group will provide strategic storage consulting service that will help customers streamline business processes, gain efficiencies and better leverage all of their heterogeneous storage resources. The new dedicated business unit will be under the direction of EMC's Global Services organization with Accenture providing consulting delivery and management expertise. Both companies will assign skilled resources to the new group. The new services will be offered separately from those provided by EMC's existing 1,400-strong professional services organization that focuses on EMC-specific technology.



"Storage networking environments are growing larger and more complex," said META Group, Program Director, Server Infrastructure Strategies, Kevin McIsaac. "Increasingly, organizations are looking for services specific to the people, processes and technology in their information storage infrastructure."



Industry analyst firm IDC estimates that the storage consulting services market will grow from $2.8 billion in 2001 to more than $4 billion in 2005. While there is a growing demand for storage consulting services, no one company holds a significant lead in the field of end-to-end storage infrastructure services.

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