Bob Muglia Customers Quotations

Today's announcement is yet another milestone in our collaborative efforts to deliver enterprise-class solutions that address our customers' most critical business application needs. EMC and Microsoft are enhancing the delivery of joint solutions by our skilled service professionals, and this commitment will enable customers to optimize their infrastructure with high-performance servers and applications.

The fact that DPM works well with other Microsoft products that customers commonly use is a big differentiator.

Corporate customers are choosing the Microsoft platform. Microsoft Office, SQL Server and Exchange all reached new highs this quarter, with shipments of all server applications nearly doubling in the past year.

We have seen customers reduce 48 hour backup windows down to 10 minutes with DPM, ... With DPM, customers never have to do a full backup from the production server again; they only have to do incremental backups, which are much more efficient.

Microsoft is pleased that customers using SMS 2003, including our recently announced SMS 2003 R2, can take advantage of the new capabilities delivered through Intel AMT and Intel's Professional Business Platform via the Intel-developed add-on software for SMS. This enables customers to better manage their environments and computing infrastructures by reducing many challenges they face today. Similarly, Microsoft is increasing its investments in the Microsoft System Center family of products to address resource optimization and virtual machine life-cycle management so customers can manage their physical and virtualized environments from one toolset.

DPM is all about enabling simpler storage management and reducing the amount of manual labor that customers must dedicate to backup and recovery,

We see this a pretty good example of how .NET can provide value and a worthwhile service that customers will be willing to pay for,