EMC Corporationthe world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today unveiled a number of new backup offerings that help ease the burden that data centers are facing in dealing with the ever expanding digital universe.

These new solutions leverage the latest technologies including data de-duplication, disk drive spin down and low-power disk drives, and continue to help dramatically lower the cost of disk-based backup versus tape. EMC offers the industry's broadest set of hardware, software, and services that meet the world's digital backup, recovery and archiving needs, from individual consumers to the world's largest data centers.

The new products and capabilities include:

- EMC Disk Library 3D 1500 and 3000 - New local area network (LAN) backup-to-disk systems targeted at midsize businesses and featuring policy-based data de-duplicated backup, EMC five-9s (99.999%) storage platform and IP replication to help customers ensure availability, reduce the amount of backup data and meet off-site protection requirements without physically transporting tapes.

- EMC Disk Library 4000 - EMC's market leading open systems virtual tape library (VTL) now features data de-duplication, spin down and the latest high-capacity, low-power disk drives to reduce power and cooling by up to 47%.

- EMC Avamar® Data Store Gen 2 and EMC Avamar 4.0 - The newest versions of EMC's next generation backup and recovery solution, featuring global source-based data de-duplication technology, provide a host of new scale, support, and ease-of-use features, including a doubling of backup capacity per system.

Now, customers use up to 43% less energy per terabyte backed up and reduce total cost of ownership by up to 25% compared to the first generation solution - and by up to 75% relative to tape. This makes it easier to manage more information and eliminate the strain on the infrastructure caused by backing up duplicate copies of data on a regular basis.

- EMC NetWorker® Fast Start - A new, simplified package of EMC's leading NetWorker backup software designed for growing midsize businesses that cuts deployment time by as much as 75% and decreases the number of installation steps by up to 80%. The software provides a single backup solution for one price, with one model, and one simple installation.

Analyst Community Responds:

Lauren Whitehouse, Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said, "Backup poses a number of different customer challenges depending on the use case, service level requirements and what's currently implemented in the environment. EMC's strategy of delivering new features like de-dupe that can be performed at the client through the backup solution stack and at the target storage destination will help them address a number of customer requirements where their competitors are left flat footed - either with no solution or a solution that isn't tailored for a specific use case. Today's announcement emphasizes the strength of their portfolio and that they can deliver data protection solutions to customers of all sizes and environments."

Wael El Nadi, Technology Solutions Manager, EMC Middle East & North Africa, said, "Today's announcement continues EMC's momentum in the backup and recovery market, allowing us to offer customers in MENA both integrated backup and recovery solutions and best-of-breed standalone products. By adding key features like data de-duplication across our portfolio, regional customers can eliminate redundant data, move more easily to disk backup, and strengthen the management of their backup infrastructures. This differentiates EMC from other vendors who must ‘force-fit' a single product across a range of de-duplication use cases. As data growth continues to create challenges for customers of any size, the breadth of the EMC portfolio ensures that customers will have the right solution for their backup and recovery needs."

Availability

- EMC Disk Library 3D 1500 will be generally available May 28, 2008 from EMC and its authorized partners.

- EMC Disk Library 3D 3000 will be generally available May 28, 2008 from EMC and its authorized partners.

- EMC Disk Library 3D 4000 option will be generally available July 28, 2008 from EMC and its authorized partners.

- EMC Disk Library 4000 with spin down and low power drives will be generally available May 28, 2008 from EMC and its authorized partners.

- EMC Avamar V4.0 is immediately available from EMC and its authorized partners.

- EMC Avamar Data Store Gen 2 will be generally available on May 23, 2008 from EMC and its authorized partners.

- EMC NetWorker Fast Start is immediately available from EMC and its authorized partners.