NEC Corporation
EMC Corporation
NEC Corporation (HQ: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President: Kaoru Yano,
hereinafter NEC) and EMC Corporation (HQ: Hopkinton, Mass, US;
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer: Joseph Tucci,
hereinafter EMC) announced a cooperation agreement in the area of
IT operation management software, to reinforce software business
through joint-development of products bringing together each
company's management technologies and mutual supply of OEM
products. Today's announcement is a result of Middleware Product
Development Cooperation, a strategic alliance formed in April
last year between the two companies.
Product integration this time will be between NEC's integrated
operation management product, "WebSAM" and EMC's automated IT
management product, EMC Smarts. The advantage of WebSAM is its
autonomous operation technology that allows seamless operation
covering Network, Servers, OS up to applications, which is centered
on a framework of accumulated operation know-how. Smarts is
differentiated by its automated intelligence, which enables
real-time event correlation and automated root cause analysis of IT
infrastructure symptoms - spanning network, application and storage
infrastructures .
Integration of EMC and NEC products will enable granular failure
analysis of overall system including networks, storage, servers, OS
and applications. And it will also effortlessly realize autonomous
system operation including provisioning of system resources,
enabling flexible response to sudden load changes due to increase
in the amount of information and diversification of
information types.
Beginning today, NEC will incorporate EMC's patented Codebook
Correlation Technology? (CCT) analysis engine into their product,
WebSAM, and launch a product in Japan market (Shipment to begin
today). This will enable correlation and intelligent analysis
of system failures and root cause symptoms, which will
significantly reduce the amount of time and energy required for
recovery. Furthermore, CCT eliminates time-consuming setting and
changing of analysis rules, allowing simpler operation. As
part of the agreement, EMC will also be working towards a future
offering of select WebSAM technologies to EMC customers
globally.
NEC will focus on sales to the Financial and Communications
industries, Data Centers and other users with large-scale
mission-critical systems.
By leveraging NEC's SI capabilities, EMC aims to extend Smarts'
coverage into the broader information systems arena and expand
software business in Japan By planning a future offering of select
WebSAM technologies in Smarts technology, NEC aims to grow WebSAM
software business into a global business.
Please direct all Inquires to:
NEC Corporate Communications Department, Yashiro or Kato
Tel 813 3798 6511
EMC Japan KK Communication HQ, Kikuchi or Takemura
Tel 81 3 5308 8888
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under
the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially
from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result
of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse
changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or
reductions in information technology spending; (iii) risks
associated with acquisitions and investments, including the
challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving
anticipated synergies; (iv) competitive factors, including but not
limited to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (v) the
relative and varying rates of product price and component cost
declines and the volume and mixture of product and services
revenues; (vi) component and product quality and availability;
(vii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer
acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and
market change; (viii) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory;
(ix) war or acts of terrorism; (x) the ability to attract and
retain highly qualified employees; (xi) fluctuating currency
exchange rates; and (xii) other one-time events and other important
factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings
with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any
obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after
the date of this release.