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Table of Contents
We intend to continue to enhance and improve our Centera system with additional features and capabilities, as well as add new partners to expand the
number of applications integrated with Centera.
EMC Connectrix Systems – Storage Area Network Products
Our EMC Connectrix family includes high-end directors and departmental switches. These Fibre Channel-based systems significantly increase the
connectivity between servers and storage systems in a SAN and permit users to centralize monitoring and control of information in a SAN. Our Connectrix
family of directors and switches is manufactured for us by third-party original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
In 2005, we expanded the Connectrix family with the addition of several new models to further help customers of all sizes consolidate their networked
storage systems, improve total cost of ownership and tier their storage environments as they implement an ILM strategy.
We intend to continue to enhance our Connectrix family of switches and directors with additional features and capabilities.
Platform-based Software
Our platform-based software generally controls and enables functions that take place within the EMC networked storage system, such as replication,
optimization and data movement. We are the leading supplier of platform-based software for local and remote replication such as EMC SRDF and EMC
TimeFinder products, which customers use to protect and share data across varied distances.
We intend to continue to enhance our platform-based software with additional features and capabilities.
EMC Multi-platform Software Segment
EMC multi-platform software helps customers better store, manage, protect and share their rapidly increasing volumes of information in increasingly
complex IT environments. Included in this segment are the following types of software:
• Resource management software, which allows customers to increase their efficiency by automating the management of their information
infrastructure. This includes:
• EMC PowerPath, EMC ControlCenter and EMC Visual families, which provide storage resource management capabilities to EMC and
non-EMC platforms.
• EMC Smarts product family, which provides root cause analysis across complex IT environments.
• New EMC Invista and EMC RainStorage platforms, which allow customers to create a dynamic environment in which physical storage
and file resources can be moved and changed rapidly and non-disruptively.
• Backup and archive software, which includes all EMC software that provides organizations with a powerful, effective way to archive,
protect and recover data as well as comply with government regulations. This includes:
• EMC NetWorker, EMC Replication Manager, EMC RecoverPoint, EMC Dantz Retrospect, EMC AlphaStor and EMC BackupAdvisor
families, which provide timely and reliable recovery and replication of data for all operating systems and critical applications in
organizations ranging from small and midsize businesses to the largest enterprises.
• EMC AVALONidm, EMC ArchiveXtender and EMC DiskXtender families, which provide software for automated file system
archiving and hierarchical storage management.
• EMC DatabaseXtender and EMC EmailXtender software families, which provide for the automation of email and database
management, utilizing tiered storage environments for ILM.
• Content management software, which includes the EMC Documentum family to help customers optimize business processes and create,
manage, deliver and archive information, ranging from documents and discussions to e-mail, Web pages, images, XML, reports, records,
rich media and application data. Additionally, the EMC Captiva family of input management software provides for conversion, indexing and
processing of paper-based information to digital formats.
New software introduced in 2005 includes EMC RecoverPoint for continuous data protection; EMC Backup Advisor to identify and rectify backup
process and operational problems; EMC Smarts MPLS Manager for managing next-generation, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)-based virtual private
networks; EMC ControlCenter SAN Advisor that helps reduce the downtime risks associated with manual methods for SAN maintenance and change
management; and the EMC Invista network storage virtualization platform.
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