The solutions developed at the EMC-Oracle China Technology Development Center will help bring customers the benefits of greater business value, less risk and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). The center also provides a framework for partners in Asia Pacific to build information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions on top of the EMC-Oracle joint infrastructure.

The joint technology center, which will operate out of the Oracle China Development Center in Beijing, will integrate and leverage the technical and sales resources of both EMC China and Oracle China. The center will be used to host product demonstrations, technology training, joint marketing and customer events and proof-of-concept testing with five major activities: customer visits, hands-on workshops, proof-of-concepts, partner events and partner cross education. At the center, customers will have the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of how to easily handle the challenges of managing growth of information with budget constraints and use integrated and tested solutions to reduce the complexity of information management, ensure business continuity, protection and minimal cost and realize compliance.

Peter Beer, director of EMC solution centers, Asia Pacific/Japan, said at the launch: "Through our alliances with Oracle and other partners, EMC provides customers with best-of-breed technology as well as high-value, low-risk solutions that customers demand. Oracle is a strategic partner of EMC globally, and EMC is delighted to further that alliance in the Asia Pacific region via the establishment of this joint technology centers in China."

He added that the EMC-Oracle co-operation at the technical and marketing levels will bring benefits to customers.

Pascal Sero, vice president of the Oracle China Development Centers, said: "Oracle has worked closely with EMC for 10 years now, and EMC is a key component of Oracle's grid computing strategy. This joint investment shows both companies' commitment to providing the best joint solutions to customers and partners across Asia Pacific."

He added that as Oracle's technology powerbase, the Oracle China Development Center is a fitting place to develop world-class solutions like the joint EMC-Oracle ones and provide the opportunity for customers to have hands-on experience with the solutions.

Both parties will introduce their best practices developed in the US and Europe, and this joint technology center will host live demonstrations of Oracle products running on the EMC storage infrastructure platforms; demonstrate EMC's ILM strategy utilizing EMC tiered storage, platforms and management software; and show integration with EMC Legato, EMC Documentum, and VMware applications to promote the EMC-Oracle joint accelerator solutions; and, perform testing, certification of EMC and Asianux to add to Oracle's support matrix. As part of its important strategy in the future, EMC will promote its ILM strategy and complete solutions such as database solutions, application solutions, business continuity solutions and disaster recovery solutions.

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