The global alliance forged between EMC® and Microsoft® focuses on our joint customers’ requirements to transform IT and leverage the power of Microsoft virtualization and the Private Cloud. We help our customers leverage their technology investments to drive competitive business advantage and enable IT innovation. Through EMC's information infrastructure solutions and services and Microsoft's data center solutions and productivity applications, customers are able to confidently navigate this IT transformation. Focus areas include SQL Server, business intelligence, advanced collaboration, enterprise content management, integrated management virtualization and the Private Cloud. As an award-winning and longstanding Microsoft partner, EMC has joined Microsoft in a commitment to help customers achieve a faster return on their IT investments with lower risk and improved and more secure access to information across their Microsoft application environments.