Internet infrastructure leaders EMC Corporation, Cisco Systems and Oracle Corporation, have announced a major expansion of their ECO(EMC/Cisco/Oracle) structure initiative through the addition of new business continuity solutions.
Their worldwide efforts will further simplify and accelerate the implementation of highly available e-business infrastructures.
The companies recently showcased their combined solutions to thousands of users at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco.
The three technology leaders also released their new `Recovery` blueprint, which is available for downloading at www.eECOstructure.com.
According to Marc Gower, marketing director of Oracle SA, `Recovery` builds on the previously released `Resilient` high availability blueprint and details additional integrated solutions and best practices from all three companies for fail over and fail back between primary and secondary servers.
"Recovery provides customers with a technical roadmap that enables them to reduce downtime and potential data loss caused by outages that can affect their operations."
Gower reveals that the ECOstructure companies are conducting focused blueprint training for their field technical architects as well as key systems integrator partners to further simplify joint implementations.
As part of this effort, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young US LLC plans to align with ECOstructure to develop approaches and methodologies using the ECOstructure architecture. The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group is already training over 150 consultants to deliver ECOstructure-based solutions to its clients worldwide.
According to Paul Ruinaard, Market Development Managerof Cisco Systems SA, in today`s New Economy, companies are migrating their hard won brand equity onto the web, whilst consumers are simultaneously becoming increasingly service conscious. "The combination of these two factors means that any e-business initiative has to run over an infrastructure that is highly reliable, scalable and secure.
"The ECOstructure offering from Oracle, Cisco and EMC addresses these requirements whilst simultaneously ensuring that enterprises have solutions that allow them to implement an evolving e-business strategy."
For companies to successfully shift to a new e-business model and advance in the marketplace, they must first consider a sound, secure and scalable technology infrastructure, maintains Steven Sparks, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young vice president of the Infrastructure and Network Integration group. "We believe ECOstructure to be an appropriate foundation architecture for our solution offerings.
McKessonHBOC, the world`s largest pharmaceutical supply management and healthcare information technology company, is the first to embrace this architecture.
EMC, Cisco and Oracle are also developing two additional integration centres to develop and showcase solutions based on the blueprints. The centres will open later this year in the UK and Japan, and will join the original facility at Oracle`s Californian headquarters as engineering and marketing Centres of Excellence. The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group also plans to deploy ECOstructure in many of its European Centres of Excellence in 2001.
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