New Software for Automated IT Governance Analysis, Advanced Network Problem Management, and IT Process Automation Help Middle East-Based Enterprises and Service Providers Automate Data Center Operations

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 08 October, 2007 - EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today further strengthened the company's IT service delivery management offerings with key additions to its software portfolio.  Aimed at helping customers in the Middle East better automate their data center operations, the company today announced EMC IT Compliance Analyzer - Application Edition, EMC Smarts IPv6 Availability Manager, EMC IT Process Centre, and EMC IT Performance Reporter - Network Edition.

The solutions are key pieces of EMC's IT service delivery portfolio, a comprehensive set of management software based on EMC Smarts and EMC ControlCenter technologies.  Aimed at helping regional customers achieve higher degrees of automation for their data center operations, EMC provides enterprises with end-to-end service visibility and control across their complex IT information infrastructures. 

"As the Middle East market has grown, so has the complexity of elements in the storage, server, network and application domains, making it nearly impossible for companies in the region to get a handle on their IT resources and the business and information services they support," said Mohammed Amin, General Manager, EMC Middle East & North Africa. 'To get the most of their IT investments, companies today demand a clear line-of-sight across their IT infrastructures, and the ability to manage disparate domains holistically."

Announced today, EMC's new management software solutions around IT compliance analysis, IPv6 network problem management, and storage service delivery further bolster this vision and include: 

EMC IT Compliance Analyzer - Application Edition:  The market's premier application solution helping IT to ensure configuration compliance of business-critical applications with internal IT governance policies, regulatory requirements, and IT best practices.  Leveraging the power of EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager, the software performs real-time analysis and alerts IT managers when business-critical applications violate their compliance policies.   

EMC Smarts IPv6 Availability Manager:  One of the market's first solutions to fully support native IPv6 networks and one of the only network management solutions to automate the end-to-end problem correlation and analysis of IPv4 and IPv6 networks.  With Smarts IPv6 Availability Manager, customers can now effectively comply with IPv6 standards, simplify management and increase IP network availability.  

EMC IT Process Centre:  First in a family of modules designed to automate IT processes and tasks for enterprise customers across server, application, network, and storage domains. This initial solution focuses on more efficient provisioning and management of storage requests, enabling IT operations to meet service-level agreements (SLAs) and lower costs. 

EMC IT Performance Reporter - Network Edition:  Delivers real-time trending and historical data reporting on network availability and performance issues.  With the ability to work seamlessly with other Smarts solutions, IT Performance Reporter enables proactive problem management and capacity planning, and accurately forecasts future network demand. 

EMC offers advanced solutions helping customers automate their data center operations.  With a unique set of products enabling closed-loop automation, EMC's products conduct comprehensive discovery, compliance, analysis, automation and visualization across the IT infrastructure.  This automation process enables companies to discover what IT resources they have, check for compliance to policies, isolate root-cause problems, and immediately fix any issues.  Leveraging this model-based, intelligent software, customers are now able to take a service-centric approach to IT management and gain insight into how their information infrastructures support key business services.

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