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Cisco to Resell EMC Centralized Storage Equipment

01/10/2005

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EMC Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. on Monday said they have agreed to a tentative deal in which Cisco will resell EMC's centralized network storage equipment to manage data in branch offices.

The joint venture takes aim at EMC's rival in the network-attached storage business, Network Appliance network-attached storage connects local data to central corporate systems.

Under the deal, EMC's network attached storage systems for managing corporate data will be combined centrally with technology from Cisco's Actona for moving office data over long distances, together with Cisco's products for managing branch office data. Cisco acquired Actona in August.

The partnership seeks to transform the market for managing data in the estimated 1.2 million branch offices located in the United States alone. Currently, most data in local offices is managed on computer file servers from the likes of Dell, Hewlett-Packard or IBM.

Cisco plans to resell a combined EMC-Cisco system under its own brand that, in effect, vacuums up corporate data sitting in branch offices to store it centrally on EMC storage (news - web sites) systems. Fast network pipes would give local office workers quick access to their data as if the data were stored locally.

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