EMC, Microsoft, and LEGATO Launch Joint Seminars for Branch Office Data Consolidation and Business Continuity

Strategic Insights -

Companies are launching a 10-city seminar series to educate customers on how to consolidate and protect information stored at remote sites, with up to 60 percent of an organization's data scattered across multiple locations. The seminars showcase a branch office data consolidation and business continuity solution featuring EMC's NetWin(R) 200 NAS system running Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Storage Server 2003 software and LEGATO's RepliStor(R) software. The joint solution helps reduce cost and complexity by consolidating disparate systems to EMC's NetWin 200, built on the Windows Storage Server 2003 platform, allowing for efficient and cost-effective replication across multiple sites.

Key Takeaways:

  • The seminar series will cover ways to reduce cost and complexity by consolidating disparate systems to EMC's NetWin 200, built on the Windows Storage Server 2003 platform.
  • The joint solution features EMC's NetWin(R) 200 NAS system running Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Storage Server 2003 software and LEGATO's RepliStor(R) software.
  • Up to 60 percent of a large organization's information may be located away from the main data center, making effective management and protection a significant challenge for IT managers.
  • LEGATO's RepliStor software uses patented, asynchronous, real-time data replication to copy Microsoft Windows data via LAN and WAN networks.
  • Once consolidated, LEGATO's NetWorker information protection software provides a range of high-performance backup and recovery capabilities.
  • The seminar series will be held in 10 cities across the US, including Boston, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Irvine, Irving, Mountain View, New York City, Redmond, and Washington, D.C.
  • The joint solution is showcased at CeBIT 2004 in Hannover, Germany from March 18-24.

Statistics:

  • Up to 60 percent of an organization's data may be scattered across multiple remote locations.
  • The seminar series will be held in 10 cities across the US.
  • EMC's NetWin 200 NAS system is built on the Windows Storage Server 2003 platform.
  • LEGATO's RepliStor software can prepare any number of copies across any distance between the Windows servers and on any type of Windows storage system.

Sources:

  • PRNewswire, Boston, March 4
  • http://www.protectandconsolidate.com/
  • EMC Corporation
  • LEGATO Software
  • Microsoft Corporation