Wipro & EMC Announce Alliance

BANGALORE, India -- Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT - News) and EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC - News) today announce a global strategic alliance to address customers' information infrastructure requirements, while expanding Wipro's and EMC's reach in the $60 billion worldwide information infrastructure market.

The alliance unites Wipro's applied innovation framework for developing new solutions and services around EMC's industry-leading information infrastructure technologies to enable more organizations, specifically in targeted growth markets, to optimize their infrastructures, secure and protect their information, and leverage their information to unlock its full potential. Wipro and EMC intend to explore collaboration of industry and application specific solutions in key business areas that solve customer needs related to storage management, information management, content management, and information security.

Wipro and EMC bring together extensive experience and presence to expand relationships with existing customers and acquire new ones in both emerging and developed markets. To further enable this alliance, EMC intends to help certify more than 1,000 Wipro practice resources on EMC technologies to support pre-sales, delivery, and solution development.

Commenting on this strategic alliance, Suresh Vaswani, President, Wipro Technologies said, "The alliance with EMC is part of Wipro's Applied Innovation initiative that includes new ideas that will deliver significantly higher value and business results to our global customers. This alliance is significant for us as it showcases our agility and flexibility to transform our business to meet changing customer requirements."

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