Datacraft, EMC tie up for automated networked storage solutions
By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 11 December 2002, 20:30 IST
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BANGALORE: Datacraft Asia, an independent IT services company in the Asia Pacific, Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with EMC Corporation, a leading information storage solutions firm. Under the global strategic partnership with Datacraft's majority shareholder, Dimension Data (LSE: DDT), Datacraft is now able to incorporate EMC's premier networked storage platforms and open storage management software into Datacraft's Application Network solutions for its blue chip customer base in the Asia Pacific region, while giving EMC a support for region-wide sales and delivery. Further, Dimension Data is also appointed as an EMC Authorised Service Network (ASN). EMC's ASN program is a community of select service partners that acts as a seamless and indistinguishable extension of EMC's service delivery infrastructure to deliver the deepest technical service talent for storage networking. "Storage is at the foundation of all applications and is therefore a fundamental element of our Application Networks vision of integrated network and application infrastructure," said Bill Padfield, chief operating officer of Datacraft Asia. "Through this strategic partnership with EMC, we can now combine their highly reliable, scalable and available networked storage environment with other network elements and our professional, managed and training services to create dependable solutions that address our customers' infrastructure and business application requirements." "Entering the networked storage market opens up huge pull-through services opportunities for Datacraft in areas such as network storage (SAN & NAS) implementation, storage consolidation, automated storage management, backup and recovery, and high availability, " said Ron Cattell, chief executive officer of Datacraft Asia. "As we ramp up our Storage Surveyor assessment services and Storage Primer implementation services, these offerings will become key contributor to the company's service revenue." "The convergence of data networking and storage is accelerating the migration of direct attached storage to networked storage as more organisations can now quickly realise ROI and lower the total operating cost of their information infrastructure," said Steve Fitz, President for Asia Pacific/ Japan, EMC Corporation. "Partnership with leading market players like Datacraft is a key part of EMC's overall business strategy to penetrate new markets and gain market share in Asia Pacific. This is really a highly synergistic partnership. By complementing each other's strengths, we can now offer our enterprise and service provider customers world-class networked storage solutions that are backed by a tremendous portfolio of intellectual property and unique, regional delivery capabilities," Fitz added. At the present pace of growth, IDC expects networked storage to account for almost 77 per cent of worldwide external storage systems revenue and around 67 per cent of the global disk storage revenue by 2005. Networked storage platforms, information management software, and storage-related services therefore represent a very significant market opportunity for the Datacraft-EMC partnership.

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