Genuity will now offer EMC’s Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and software as part of its Black Rocket eBusiness Network Platform, and the two companies will work together to market the combined infrastructure through the EMC xSPerience Provider Program. As part of the alliance, dedicated EMC technical personnel, based in Genuity data centers, will work closely with the Genuity team to ensure tight integration between EMC systems and software and Genuity’s Black Rocket. In addition, the two companies will participate in joint engineering and technology development activities related to managed storage services.
The trend toward Information Plants, such as those offered by Genuity, is a major growth driver for EMC. Through this alliance, Genuity is offering customers access to a large-scale, protected and easily managed environment, said Joe Tucci, EMC’s president and CEO. Both EMC and Genuity are offering eBusiness customers a service that gives them significant time-to-market advantage and a commitment to ongoing integration and development efforts to meet their future needs.
Together, Genuity and EMC are deepening the competency required to provide solutions to Global 2000 businesses in the eCommerce, eMarkets, and eCRM space. The ability to access customer, product, and other valuable data elements brings unparalleled solution possibilities to companies that are extending the boundaries of their business to a secure Internet. In combination, EMC’s storage solutions and Genuity’s scalable Black Rocket platform enable enterprises to leverage the power of world-class storage over a Tier 1 Internet backbone and hosting environment. As a result, enterprises know that their information is secure and available, at any time, from almost any location.
This partnership closely aligns Genuity, one of the pioneers of the Internet, with EMC, the pioneer of storage, providing customers with a single, fully-integrated solution, said Paul R. Gudonis, chairman and CEO of Genuity. As we work together to develop and sell our business platform solution, the market will continue to look to us for innovation. Our combined efforts will provide enterprises with the technology they need to reduce expenses, and help ensure a rapid return on investment.
This alliance is an expansion of a long-standing relationship between the two companies. As one of EMC’s largest CLARiiON storage consumers, with hundreds of terabytes of storage under management, Genuity has deployed an EMC information infrastructure for both internal and customer needs. The new offering of Symmetrix systems and software on Black Rocket, combined with EMC’s CLARiiON systems and software, enables Genuity to provide customers with a full range of leading storage solutions.
