EMC to offer strategy, design, implementation services to help customers accelerate the business benefits of virtualization.
EMC Corporation announced this week that it is now a gold-level VMware Authorized Consultant, strengthening its global alliance with VMware. For decades EMC has been a leader in information infrastructure solutions, and this move enables them to better serve enterprise customers around the world via the benefits they can realize by virtualizing their information infrastructures and data centers.
Customers recognize the VMware platform as a well suited environment for information infrastructures and choose EMC’s industry-leading technology because of the breadth of our VMware-integrated products and features.
“EMC’s deep knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, combined with our longstanding engineering relationships with tier-one application vendors and our broad product portfolio of VMware-integrated products make it possible for EMC to deliver high-value services that enable our customers to get to the next level within their VMware adoption curve,” said Howard Elias, EMC’s President, EMC Global Services & Resource Management Software Group. “As a VAC, EMC will be able to actively address all of the requests we receive from our enterprise customers who seek to leverage virtualization technology throughout their information infrastructure to reduce infrastructure and operational costs and gain business agility.”
EMC know data storage and will now bring over 1400 services professionals and engineers who have completed the VMware hands-on training to its massive customer base. The end result is EMC can offer a full lifecycle of strategy, design, implementation and managed services that help customers quickly integrate VMware architectures and operations into their data centers, remote offices and desktop strategies. This is a great partnership combination.
“VMware and EMC have a long history of working together to help our mutual customers address big issues in their data centers,” said Carl Eschenbach, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, VMware. “We are pleased to have EMC join the VMware Authorized Consultant Program. Now EMC and VMware can jointly bring even more resources to bear for our mutual customers. EMC’s expertise in information infrastructure and VMware’s groundbreaking technology together provide a potent combination for helping customers maximize the payoff from virtualization, which includes reduced IT costs, improved flexibility and manageability, and greater availability and scalability.”
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This post was written by admin on January 9, 2009
