Johannesburg, 07 Jan 2003
EMC has announced EMC OnCourse, a new EMC Celerra software solution that enables organisations to centrally manage and automate the movement of files and data across geographically dispersed locations.
Alex Robertson, country systems engineering and professional services manager at EMC SA, says the new software delivers increased organisation- and partner-wide information sharing efficiency and reduced operational costs.
"OnCourse represents an automated, policy-based alternative to the time-intensive, unreliable methods of manual and scripted file distribution most companies employ today," he adds. "It allows secure peer-to-peer file transfers between the Celerra family of NAS solutions, Windows powered NAS devices and servers, Unix servers, and Linux servers."
OnCourse also integrates with existing infrastructure applications, such as CRM and ERP, to simplify and automate current manual data flows, while offering improved file transfer processes.
Whether a business needs to pull data from remote locations to a corporate data centre for centralised backup, reporting and analysis, or needs to deliver daily or hourly data updates out to branch offices, OnCourse provides a highly reliable and scalable approach to automate these data flows.
"Data migration is one of the most labour intensive issues IT professionals face day in and day out. The ability to automate large-scale file migrations will save time and money, and guarantee consistency at the same time," says Robertson.
With data capacities doubling each year, companies across all industries are struggling to maintain efficient information management. EMC OnCourse is ideal for moving data from many servers to one, one server to many, or peer-to-peer replication of directories and files over IP.