LAS VEGAS, May 3, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC World
News Highlights:
- EMC announced six recipients of the first-ever "EMC Leaders of
the Modern Data Center" award
- Awards celebrate customers who are thought leaders in
modernizing their data centers and transforming their
businesses
- Winners include Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, Etisalat
MISR, Callaway Golf, Lightstorm Entertainment, Verizon Labs and The
University of North Texas System
Information Technology Shared Services
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EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced the recipients of
the first-ever EMC Leaders of the Modern Data Center award. A
senior panel of EMC Leaders of the Modern Data Center award judges
reviewed all nominations against a wide range of criteria,
including the impact of IT and business transformation from the
deployment of EMC's strategic technologies and services. The
awards recognize forward-thinking customers who are leveraging key
EMC technology pillars driving today's protected and trusted modern
data center– flash, software-defined, scale-out and cloud-enabled–
building Cloud and Big Data solutions to transform their
businesses.
According to a recent survey1, 52% of the 4,000
business leaders surveyed across 15 countries say they have
experienced significant disruption in their industries over the
last three years as a result of digital technologies. The
imperative to become a digital, or "modern business", is leading to
more than 66% of businesses planning to invest heavily in their IT
infrastructure and digital skills to create a business that agile,
efficient and able to move quickly. Today's awards recipients are
stand-out examples of companies having great success along this
journey.
And the Winners are …..
- Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (accepted by Dee Emon, CIO and Chad
Eckes, EVP and CFO). In order to standardize,
consolidate and converge technologies to simplify its IT
environment, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center deployed three VCE®
Vblock® Systems, models 720, 540 and 340, to power its
software-defined data center it affectionately calls "Wake Cloud."
The converged infrastructure enhances the medical center's patient
care and advances medical research by supporting more than 750
applications including their EPIC electronic medical records
platform. In a business where five minutes of downtime is
unacceptable, the VCE-powered Wake Cloud delivers nearly 100
percent availability, up from 87 percent.
- Etisalat MISR (accepted by Khalid Al
Mansouri, CIO). In order to innovate and offer new B2B
services as quickly as possible, Etisalat MISR, the Egyptian
subsidiary of leading telecom company Etisalat Group, turned to EMC
to transform its cloud and ITaaS. Etisalat MISR is leveraging a
number of EMC® technologies, including EMC Federation Enterprise
Hybrid Cloud™, EMC ViPR® Controller, EMC
VPLEX® and all-flash EMC XtremIO® and EMC VNX® arrays to
simplify and speed transition to a software-defined data center and
fast-track the company's hybrid cloud deployment and IaaS/STaaS. As
a result, Etisalat MISR has significantly reduced its IT
infrastructure and footprint costs while accelerating average
application performance by 300 percent.
- Callaway Golf (accepted by Sai Koorapati, Vice
President, Global Information Technology). Having the best
technology is critical to a company like golf equipment
manufacturer Callaway Golf, which needs to not only understand the
individual needs of each customer, but have the capability to
deliver a golf club within 24 hours of a custom fitting experience
– a key differentiator. Callaway Golf deployed EMC XtremIO on their
SAP environment and EMC VNX, EMC Data Domain® and EMC Avamar® to
enable their business to accelerate innovation and achieve global
growth. Callaway's sales, marketing and operations teams have
greatly benefitted from these technologies – it used to take at
least five days to process and ship a golf club to a customer, but
today, thanks to performance gains enabled by EMC technology, new
clubs can be designed, built and shipped the day after an order is
received.
- Lightstorm Entertainment (accepted by Jon Landau, Producer/COO/Partner and
Tim Bicio, CTO). Film production
company Lightstorm Entertainment – creators of the world cinema
blockbuster Avatar movie – has been able to modernize the
film industry with the help of unique and powerful digital
technologies such as EMC's Isilon® scale-out NAS storage system.
Lightstorm deployed a 5PB+ Isilon Data Lake that allows them to be
agile with an international team (editing, graphic design),
resulting in lightning-fast movie production. It has also enabled a
dramatic increase in production quality. Technology
advancements with Isilon has enabled Lightstorm to create more
advanced, life-like CGI.
- Verizon Labs (accepted by Larry
Rau, Director of Architecture and Infrastructure and Charu
Rudrakshi, Technology Fellow). Verizon Labs needed to create a
new platform to quickly develop innovative products across the
company's wireless, wireline, IP and cloud networks and platforms.
In response, Verizon Labs deployed EMC's software-defined storage
technology, including EMC ECS™ and EMC ScaleIO®. These web scale
technologies serve as the backbone of Verizon Labs' cloud platform,
which will be used to drive new services, including Verizon's SDN
initiative.
- The University of North Texas System Information Technology
Shared Services (accepted by Rama Dhuwaraha, Associate Vice
Chancellor & CIO). The consumerization of IT has made it
more important than ever for The University of
North Texas System (UNTS) to modernize their data center and
redefine IT in higher education. In order to break down IT silos
and improve the day-to-day business on campuses for students and
faculty, UNT System adopted EMC's Federation Enterprise Hybrid
Cloud solution. As a result, UNT System has been able to deliver
applications and infrastructure as a service at a faster pace,
offering the university community an unparalleled experience and
also achieving 33 percent cost savings, which are now being
reinvested in the UNT System Key IT Initiatives.
EMC EXECUTIVE QUOTES
Nina Hargus, Chief Marketing
Officer, EMC
"The recipients of the first-ever EMC Leaders of the Modern Data
Center award have demonstrated an innate ability to identify and
take advantage of the technology trends that are driving businesses
forward. We look forward to continuing the journey with them
toward a modern data center, the backbone of any digitally
transformed business."
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service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a
service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.
Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the
journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store,
manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information
— in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional
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1 Vanson Bourne survey
of 4,000 business leaders across 15 countries from mid-size to
large enterprises in 12 industries titled, "EMC Digital Business".
Respondents were selected according to job function (from business
owners to decision-makers in marketing, customer service, R&D
and finance). The full research will be released in Summer of
2016.
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