EMC and Sun Team To Deliver Benefits Of Solaris 10

EMC Corporation (www.emc.com) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (www.sun.com) announced they've reached an agreement on a number of hardware, software and support initiatives designed to help customers more easily deploy their technologies together.

The companies will work to ensure compatibility between the EMC family of networked storage platforms and the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS).

EMC also intends to port key storage management software to Solaris 10 including EMC PowerPath and EMC Legato NetWorker, as well as software from its EMC Documentum, EMC Legato and EMC Smarts product families.

"The needs of customers must always come first and with this collaboration, our companies are taking another step to prove that," said Howard Elias, Executive Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Office of Technology at EMC.

"With Sun's growth in the x64 server space, there is increased demand for the most storage enabled OS on the market, Solaris 10," said Jonathan Schwartz, President and Chief Operating Officer at Sun.

In two additional developments, Sun and EMC have initiated a new, expanded Cooperative Support Agreement and have extended an agreement that enables Sun to offer the OEM version of EMC Legato NetWorker as its Sun-branded backup and recovery software.