EMC, Oracle Team Up

HOPKINTON, Mass. and REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC - News) and Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL - News) today announced enhanced commitment to customers deploying EMC Information Infrastructure in Oracle environments. Through a broadened level of investment in joint engineering testing and integration and solutions development, Oracle customers can benefit from newly defined reference architectures and services that are cost effective, highly scalable, available and secure.

Today an increasing number of Oracle customers are looking to improve business efficiencies while reducing IT spending. By implementing Grid Computing based on Oracle® Database and the use of open source Oracle Enterprise Linux, customers can realize these objectives. Additionally competitive advantage can be improved through the deployment of industry- leading business intelligence and data warehousing solutions while at the same time ensuring enterprise class security for all their information.

EMC's information infrastructure offerings align perfectly to these customer needs by providing a complete range of hardware, software, and services for enterprise applications, database and middleware solutions. Jointly integrated services, solutions and support help customers avoid multi- vendor complexity when deploying end-to-end information infrastructure solutions from EMC and Oracle. Through this simplification and integration mutual EMC and Oracle customers can also achieve faster time to productivity at reduced cost.

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