EMC Announces New Services to Optimize and Leverage Microsoft Information Infrastructures

NEW ORLEANS, June 9 /PRNewswire/ -- MICROSOFT TECHED NORTH AMERICA 2010 -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced new services to help customers improve business intelligence and increase the value of their EMC information infrastructure within Microsoft™ SharePoint 2010™, Microsoft SQL Server^® 2008, and Microsoft Windows^® 7 environments. Organizations benefit from these services through improved business communication and insight, effective governance models and an optimized information infrastructure that both helps customers reduce operational costs and derive unprecedented value from information assets.

A new portfolio of EMC Consulting services designed for Microsoft SharePoint 2010 helps business and IT stakeholders build new architectures, assess business impact and create an effective governance model for migration. These five new services offerings enable enterprises to:

• Assess and plan for Business Impact through defined goals and objectives in order to reach consensus among stakeholders, validate solution viability and facilitate successful adoption
• Create and leverage an effective Governance Service model that incorporates industry best practices and standards for information architecture, user experience, communication, and training
• Deploy cutting-edge Social Networking Services based upon defined goals and objectives, business impact and governance, architecture design, pilot programs and adoption roadmaps
• Migration Planning for legacy applications such as IBM® Lotus Notes® through business impact assessment, planning, and architectural design
• Deploy an Enterprise Search Application Architecture based upon business requirements, build a prototype for a pilot or real-world implementation, and leverage best practices for deploying Microsoft search technologies

The recently announced EMC® SourceOne™ for Microsoft SharePoint solution further enables organizations to adopt a proactive information governance strategy by focusing on content spread across multiple SharePoint sites and farms. EMC SourceOne for Microsoft SharePoint solution delivers operational control, compliance and e-discovery capabilities without impacting SharePoint end-users.

EMC Consulting now offers a new service that helps customers within financial services, telecommunications and other customer-centric industries leverage the value of Microsoft Business Intelligence technologies by optimizing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 environments. This service provides customers with real-time insight into storage, database, and operating system environments within the information infrastructure through new processes for reporting, analysis and alerts on enterprise data. Customers benefit from the ability to determine when to migrate, consolidate or virtualize their technology deployments to increase efficiencies of scale.

Finally, organizations can reduce operational costs of an enterprise-wide rollout of the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system through a new Desktop Deployment service that creates an automated and centrally management desktop environment.

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with 12 core competencies and a twenty-time Microsoft Partner of the Year, EMC offers customers innovative information infrastructure, solutions and services optimized for their Microsoft environments. EMC Consulting, a business unit within EMC Global Services, works closely with Microsoft Corporation to develop and deliver services and solutions that help customers streamline deployment, migration and management of their Microsoft technology platforms. EMC Consulting accelerates its customers' journey to the private cloud through innovative and efficient use of information infrastructures to provide an optimal opportunity to federate information resources across cloud architectures.

"EMC Consulting is focused on helping customers create significant business value by optimizing strategic enterprise information," said Tom Roloff, Senior Vice President of EMC Consulting, EMC Corporation. "Our new services tailored for Microsoft environments provide customers with actionable strategies that help them build agile information infrastructures."

For more information please visit www.emc.com/consulting or booth #1101 at Microsoft TechEd North America 2010, June 7-10 in New Orleans.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

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