EMC and Unisys have expanded a 13-year alliance to develop integrated solutions that will focus on three areas: real-time infrastructure, public sector systems and enterprise security solutions.
These are aligned with the Unisys 3D Visible Enterprise (3D-VE) strategy and the companies plan to leverage EMC Smarts, EMC Documentum, and EMC VisualSRM, along with Unisys expertise and specialised real-time infrastructure (RTI) services and solutions to provide secure monitoring, troubleshooting and analysis of business processes and their associated infrastructure.
"The collaboration aims to provide customers with virtualisation, comprehensive monitoring and analysis of their business and IT infrastructure," says John Jordaan, partner representative at Unisys Africa. "EMC will also play a key role as an infrastructure partner at the Unisys Government Transformation Center in Reston, Virginia, in the US. That`s where we work with our alliance partners to develop, test and showcase new solutions for government agencies."
Additionally, the two companies are planning collaborative projects designed to further secure business operations, involving the EMC Surveillance, Analysis and Management (SAMS) solution. This combination of EMC storage platforms, software and professional services enables the storage, archiving, fast searching and analysis of petabytes - millions of gigabytes - of video and other data from physical security devices such as surveillance cameras and access control systems.
"Corporations and government agencies are looking to align their IT infrastructure more closely with their overall objectives and processes so they can more effectively monitor, analyse and respond to events that impact their business," says BJ Jenkins, EMC VP, Global Marketing. "The new solutions we are developing with Unisys help create that alignment."
The expanded alliance with EMC and the planned solutions are energised by Unisys`s 3D-VE strategy, which is designed to enable a client to see and then act on cause-effect relationships among business strategy, processes and IT requirements throughout the entire enterprise and gain unprecedented visibility into the impacts and costs that can block effective execution. To support this strategy, Unisys is aligning with an exclusive list of the world`s leading technology providers to deliver customer solutions that harness its partners` expertise with the power of 3D Visible Enterprise.
"Just as our clients do business in a marketplace where boundaries in time and space have disappeared, Unisys and EMC are expanding the boundaries of our alliance to benefit our clients," says Manuel Rivera, VP, EMC Strategic Alliance, Unisys. "Next-generation joint solutions based on our companies` complementary strengths should enable enterprise clients to realise the benefits of secure business operations to gain strategic advantage and maximise their business opportunities."
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