EMC, MS partner to deliver value to customers

BENGALURU, INDIA:EMC and Microsoft Corp announced a three-year extension of their strategic alliance through 2011.

The two companies are committing to broader and deeper product interoperability and service delivery to address key customer requirements including virtualization, security and content management through the powerful combination of Microsoft’s data center solutions and productivity applications with EMC’s information infrastructure solutions and consultancy.

As a result, joint customers will benefit from more productive and less costly dynamic IT infrastructures that can effectively respond to today’s rapidly changing business requirements and economic constraints.

At an invitation-only event for CIOs and other IT executives, Joe Tucci and Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corp discussed how the two companies will continue to deliver value to mutual customers through collaboration including a deeper focus on storage and protection of information in virtualized environments, increased productivity through centralized management of content, and leading-edge security solutions to prevent data breaches.

“Microsoft and EMC are committed to working together to create enterprise infrastructure technologies that will help businesses build extremely efficient and agile IT systems,” said Ballmer. “Through the joint investments we are making, we will continue to deliver solutions that enable enterprise customers to meet their business goals today and lay the groundwork for future success.”

“The EMC and Microsoft alliance has delivered tremendous and long-lasting value to customers for more than a decade,” said Joe Tucci, Chairman, President and CEO, EMC Corp. “Today marks the next phase in this evolution. The companies remain committed to delivering solutions that blend Microsoft’s technology with EMC’s information infrastructure portfolio, spanning across virtualization, storage, IT resource and content management, security products and consulting services.”

“In this challenging economy, IT is a more vital tool than ever for innovating, streamlining and competing in the global marketplace. And so it’s welcome news that EMC and Microsoft are committing to bring their technologies and offerings even closer together, to help customers get to IT-based business value even more quickly and effectively,” said Frank Gens, Senior VP and Chief Analyst, IDC.