EMC s Joe Tucci to Keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2012

HOPKINTON, Mass. - September 27, 2012 -

As one of the world’s most sought-after companies helping customers enhance and extract the most value from their mission-critical Oracle environments according to IDC*, EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced that it has assembled and will announce products and technologies designed to transform IT and business at Oracle OpenWorld 2012, September 30 – October 4 at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.  Showcased by EMC® will be some of the industry’s most advanced and trusted technologies, solutions and services used by customers worldwide to transform existing Oracle infrastructure; maximize value from their existing Oracle software, people and processes; and transform the business through Big Data analytics. EMC also will clearly demonstrate how Big Data is not only transforming business, but changing the world, while providing attendees the skills to transform themselves for the worlds of cloud and big data.

EMC’s presence will be highlighted by a keynote address by EMC Chairman and CEO, Joe Tucci and Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President of Product Operations and Marketing. To view the live streaming video of the EMC keynote address on October 2 at 8:00 a.m. PDT, leverage the EMC Community Network where you can follow everything EMC at Oracle OpenWorld and join the #EMC & #OOW conversation on Twitter.

Key opportunities to listen, learn and gain hands-on experience:

• Joe Tucci Keynote: Mr. Tucci will illustrate for the more than 45,000 conference attendees how the journey to cloud computing, disruptive technologies such as Flash storage, and emerging deployment models are transforming IT infrastructure, applications and end-user device layers. He’ll describe how customers not only are realizing extraordinary efficiency and agility gains through cloud computing, but unlocking the opportunities hidden in vast quantities of Big Data, all in a safe and trusted way. Joining Mr. Tucci onstage will be Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President of Product Operations and Marketing, who will provide a glimpse into the unprecedented Human Face of Big Data project. Sponsored by EMC, the Human Face of Big Data is being heralded as the most engaging and captivating attempt ever to tap into, and put a human face on, the societal impact of Big Data.
• EMC Booth (# 901):  At the EMC booth, attendees will be treated to demonstrations of technology integrations between EMC and Oracle software and meet with EMC Global Solutions, engineering and Global Services  experts to discuss planning and design of Solutions for their top IT challenges . Featured in the booth will be demonstrations of EMC’s industry-leading storage, virtualization, backup and recovery, data protection and analytics solutions and services to help attendees plan and implement transformational cloud computing and big data strategies utilizing Oracle and EMC technologies.
• EMC Speaking Sessions: In addition to the keynote, EMC will lead several conference sessions and technology demonstrations for customers to gain valuable insight on a range of topics, including:
  • RAC Unlimited – True Active-Active Availability Over Distance, Sunday, September 30, Moscone West, Room 2014 at 9:00 a.m.  
    Sam Lucido, EMC Oracle Global Functional Leader and Don Kirouac, Consultant, Corporate System Engineering
  • Make Oracle DBAs 9X More Efficient At Protecting And Recovering Oracle Software , Monday, October 1, Moscone South, Room 236 at 10:45 a.m.
    Don Rush, Systems Engineer and Mehran Hadipour, Senior Director
  • Clone Your Oracle Databases Online in Seconds with Oracle Clonedb and DirectNFS, Monday, October 1, Moscone South, Room 236 at 4:45 p.m.
    Jeff Browning, Everything Oracle At EMC Community Webmaster
  • Triple Oracle Database Performance With 80% Less Tuning For DBAs, Tuesday, October 2, Moscone South, Room 309 at 10:15 a.m.
    Yaron Dar, Senior Manager, Innovation and Systems Engineering and Tomaer Kushnin, Principal Software Engineer
  • Big Data Strategy And Planning In The Era Of Cloud Computing, Tuesday, October 2, Room 236, Moscone South at 11:45 a.m.
    Charles Fan, Senior Vice President
  • De-duplication & Oracle RMAN: 50% Faster Backups, Faster Recovery, Less Cost, Wednesday, October 3, Moscone South, Room 236 at 11:45 a.m.
    Caitlin Gordon, Senior Product Manager, and Daryl Smith, Chief Oracle Architect, EMC IT

Customer Quote:

Paul O’Leary, Infrastructure Specialist, King & Wood Mallesons

“At King & Wood Mallesons, our Oracle systems are truly mission critical and demand maximum performance to support client billing, financial reporting and other core business processes around the world. To support our growth in Asia, we completely transformed our Oracle environment and migrated it into our cloud infrastructure based on EMC, VMware and Cisco technologies. By doing this, we’ve reduced Oracle Cap-Ex by 50%, increased performance and have sustained our uptime by 100% for more than a year. This flexible, reliable cloud infrastructure is enabling us to provide a higher-level of client service, which is the hallmark of our firm.”

Executive Quote:

Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President, Product Operations and Marketing, EMC Corporation

“As partners for 17 years, EMC and Oracle share more than 70,000 joint customers worldwide. Customers across nearly every industry are achieving unprecedented cost savings and Oracle performance improvements by leveraging EMC in both physical and virtual cloud environments. This ultimately accelerates their journey to cloud computing by enabling them to store, manage, protect, and analyze their information assets in a more agile, trusted, and cost-efficient way.” 

EMC is a Platinum level member of Oracle PartnerNetwork.

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