EMC Corporation Partners with Oracle, Sybase, and Informix to Enhance Open Systems Technology

EMC Corporation has announced a significant collaboration with the world's leading independent database software providers, Oracle Corp., Sybase Inc., and Informix Corp., to enable customers to leverage large amounts of information for competitive advantage using open systems technology. This partnership marks a generational next step in commercial open systems computing, as companies demand fast, constant access to immense amounts of business information to produce revenue and increase efficiency.

Key Takeaways:

• The partnership enables customers to enhance their ability to leverage large amounts of information for competitive advantage using open systems technology.
• EMC's Integrated Cached Disk Array (ICDA) technology combines large amounts of electronic cache memory with high-capacity, small form-factor disk drives to provide unprecedented access and availability to mission-critical information.
• Mutual customers running applications from Informix, Oracle, and Sybase have realized significant performance increases utilizing EMC ICDA systems.
• Oracle believes EMC's ICDA technology will greatly enhance the productivity and effectiveness of its database customers, particularly in the areas of very large databases (VLDBs) and data warehousing.
• Sybase currently has the EMC Symmetrix product installed in its Emeryville Open Solutions Labs, and early feedback indicates that the Sybase-EMC combination is a high-performance solution for the distributed enterprise.
• Informix and EMC have signed a Letter Of Understanding to collaborate on testing and tuning their mutual products for performance and scalability for the VLDB market.

Statistics:

• EMC's ICDA technology provides two to four times faster performance than conventional storage technologies - without tuning or customizing the software.
• The partnership enables customers to accommodate VLDBs and large numbers of individual users on heterogeneous, open systems platforms in one centralized, intelligent storage subsystem.
• Oracle's parallel server solutions are most effective in centralized, large repositories with business-critical data storage requirements.

Sources:

• "Business Wire", June 14, 1995
• Oracle Corporation, headquartered in Redwood Shores, California
• Sybase, Inc., headquartered in Emeryville, CA
• Informix Software, headquartered in Menlo Park, California
• EMC Corporation, headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts