Building on a longstanding relationship of integrating enterprise-class systems, software, services and shared best practices, EMC Corporation and Microsoft Corporation announced a significant expansion of their alliance to further simplify the delivery of information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions for Microsoft application environments. They will work together to develop and deliver a portfolio of integrated solutions that will help business customers cost-effectively manage information on the Microsoft server platform.

The expansion includes significant investments and commitments by both companies to joint solution delivery and sales engagement support in order to accelerate customer adoption and simplify deployment of Microsoft's Exchange Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. Additionally, a worldwide network of partner account managers will be established to drive predictable joint engagement and solution delivery.

EMC and Microsoft have committed to this new framework, which will facilitate the delivery of an ongoing portfolio of joint solutions. The alliance will initially focus on the three initiatives: Simplified exchange upgrade and deployment, SQL Server 2005 upgrade and deployment and accelerated lotus notes to exchange migration.

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