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EMC

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EMC Corporation is a 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.

Second only to your people, your information is your organization's most important asset. EMC provides the technologies and tools that can help you release the power of your information. We can help you design, build, and manage flexible, scalable, and secure information infrastructures. With these infrastructures, you'll be able to intelligently and efficiently store, protect, and manage your information so that it can be made accessible, searchable, shareable, and – ultimately -- actionable.

EMC and Microsoft Virtualization

EMC works with Microsoft to offer our customers the integrated software, hardware, and services that streamline deployment, migration, and management of the Microsoft virtualization platform.

As a Microsoft Global Alliance partner, EMC works with Microsoft across many areas of each other’s leading technology and services portfolios. From engineering work to joint solution development, proposal, and support, EMC and Microsoft have worked together for over a dozen years. EMC Consulting has built an industry-leading Microsoft expertise that spans the Microsoft product set, and has won numerous Microsoft awards for answering our customers’ challenges with advanced, unique solutions. EMC technology and services support is working with customers on Microsoft Virtualization, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Application Virtualization, and integrated management through System Center.

  • Mission-critical ready: Exceed critical service-level needs with EMC services, technology, and solutions for Microsoft Virtualization.

  • Consolidated, tiered storage infrastructure: Amplify cost savings of Microsoft Hyper-V for lower TCO.

  • Simplified management: Consolidate servers and leverage EMC’s integration with Microsoft System Center to reduce management overhead.

EMC solutions for Microsoft Virtualization help you to realize the cost, service-level, and agility benefits that the Microsoft Virtualization portfolio delivers. These solutions bring together EMC’s leading infrastructure technology and services expertise with Microsoft Virtualization to help deliver dynamic IT infrastructures.

EMC Information Infrastructure for Microsoft Virtualization

EMC’s industry leading information infrastructure and storage platforms are ready to support mission-critical deployments of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and amplify the efficiency, consolidation and management benefits of server virtualization, while ensuring adequate performance and availability are achieved. With EMC unified storage and Microsoft virtualization, you can achieve the agility, flexibility and cost reduction your business requires. By consolidating servers, and enabling tiered storage consolidation, you can reduce power consumption, and more effectively utilize your IT resources. With the combined power of EMC and Microsoft expertise and technologies, you can simplify management of your virtualized application IT environment and make the most of your existing IT infrastructure. Every day, organizations worldwide are reducing costs and delivering greater value with Microsoft virtualization technologies and EMC information infrastructure. Learn more:

EMC and Microsoft: Delivering Data Protection and Disaster Recovery for Virtual Infrastructure

EMC data disaster recovery solutions for Microsoft Virtual Infrastructure help you build a resilient, virtual infrastructure that leverages the benefits of both Microsoft virtualization and EMC data replication. With EMC Disaster Recovery for Microsoft solutions, you can avoid costly outages and recover from unplanned disasters in minutes or hours instead of days.

EMC RecoverPoint integrates with Microsoft failover clustering to provide rapid restart and automatic failover in the event of a site outage. RecoverPoint supports a range of storage arrays, and arrays do not have to be identical between sites helping customers to right-size their implementation or use existing equipment. Microsoft and EMC are currently partnering in the EMC Innovation Center to deliver an architecture for Hyper-V site recovery solution based on the EMC CLARiiON CX4. The solution is being tested by EMC Global Solutions using a mix of fixed LUNs and thin provisioning.

Hyper-V Backup and Recovery with EMC NetWorker
EMC NetWorker simplifies, automates, and accelerates backup and recovery across diverse IT environments. For Hyper-V, NetWorker enables both traditional and advanced protection of virtual servers. Users can easily protect and recover virtual guests as well as complete Hyper-V systems. In conjunction with Volume Shadow Copy Services (VSS) NetWorker delivers off-host, LAN-free, non-disruptive backup including consistent protection of Hyper-V configuration databases. Rapid recovery from persistent VSS snapshots or from secondary copies on disk or tape ensures virtual systems are up, running, available and ready to serve your business.

Virtualization Design and Implementation Services
EMC Consulting provides comprehensive virtualization services across all Microsoft technologies that will help you reduce hardware costs, increase application availability, decrease costly server administration, and reduce data center complexity. Our design and implementation services can help you create the optimum strategy, design an architecture, and implement the appropriate virtualization technologies for your application, server, storage, network, or desktop infrastructure. Our virtualization services will ensure your architecture design encompasses security, backup and recovery, business continuity, networking, and management.

EMC will help you build your solution with the following products and services:

  • EMC NetWorker
    EMC NetWorker helps you protect your data by simplifying and centralizing backup and recovery operations while delivering record breaking performance.

  • EMC RecoverPoint
    Continuous data protection and continuous remote replication enable any-point-in-time recovery to protect data against loss or corruption.

  • EMC Consulting
    EMC Consulting offers you a full range of design, development, and implementation services for your Microsoft technologies.

Solution Briefs

White Papers

  • Disaster Recovery in a Geographically Dispersed Cross-Site Virtual Environment
    This white paper describes a blueprint for an EMC disaster recovery solution for Windows virtualized environments. The solution is enabled by the EMC CLARiiON CX4 Platform, EMC RecoverPoint, and Microsoft Hyper-V on Windows Server 2008 using Fibre Channel. The blueprint was designed by EMC and Microsoft to demonstrate automated failover capabilities in a virtualized Microsoft environment.

Webcast

  • Deduplication and Backup for Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization – Understanding Best Practices
    EMC NetWorker solves the challenges of backup and recovery of Hyper-V virtual servers by offering application integration and the best of traditional and next-generation backup—in a single, complete solution. As a result, critical data and applications running on virtual servers are well-protected—ensuring that you get the most value from your virtualization efforts. Watch this webcast to find out how to protect critical data and applications running on virtual servers.

Best Practice Guides

Reference Architectures

Videos

  • How to Build an Efficient Application Infrastructure through Virtualization
    Watch this discussion about how deploying Microsoft virtualization with the proper storage infrastructure can create efficient, protected and easy to manage environments you need for dynamic computing. Brian Martin and Jim Schwartz discuss relevant ways to leverage Microsoft virtualization technologies like Hyper-V and SCVMM with the latest storage technologies for high performance, automated failover and failback, simplified provisioning and virtual storage provisioning. The techniques discussed will show you how to lower your TCO and improve flexibility for next-generation deployments of SharePoint, SQL Server, Exchange and other key business applications.

Press Releases

Success Stories

  • Construction Firm Uses Virtualization to Reduce Costs and Improve Availability
    Paris-based Bouygues Construction experienced high costs and complex administration due to server proliferation. They decided to implement the Windows Server 2008 Enterprise operating system with Hyper-V virtualization technology and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 together with EMC CLARiiON CX4-80 Storage Solution.

  • Municipality Virtualizes Data Center to Lower Costs and Expand Services
    Slough Borough Council’s IT staff lacked data center space needed to run new applications. The staff also desired better disaster preparedness and a more proactive stance in managing its technology. They deployed Windows Server 2008 Datacenter and Hyper-V technology to virtualize servers, as well as Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to simplify server management and EMC Clarion CX340 storage area network as storage solution.

  • School District Uses Virtualization to Improve IT and Reduce Costs During Budget Crisis
    To reduce costs, simplify management, and speed application deployment, Volusia County Schools needed to create a more efficient server environment. The school district deployed the Windows Server 2008 operating system with Hyper-V technology and uses Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 to manage its virtualization environment and EMC Symmetrix CMX-4950 storage area network as storage solution.

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EMC NetWorker solves the challenges of backup and recovery of Hyper-V virtual servers by offering application integration and the best of traditional and next-generation backup—in a single, complete solution. As a result, critical data and applications running on virtual servers are well-protected—ensuring that you get the most value from your virtualization efforts.

Watch the webcast Deduplication and Backup for Microsoft Hyper-V Virtualization – Understanding Best Practices to find out how to protect critical data and applications running on virtual servers.