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EMC AND MTI SIGN GLOBAL AGREEMENT

EMC Corporation and MTI Technology Corp have announced a global agreement whereby MTI will sell the complete line of EMC Automated Networked Storage systems and software. In addition, MTI becomes a member of the EMC Authorized Services Network and will provide end-to-end service for the CLARiiON family. Under this agreement, EMC will be MTI's exclusive disk-based storage systems supplier.

The agreement will enable MTI to provide best in class storage solutions from their partnerships with leading disk, tape and software manufacturers. MTI is a leader in delivering high-availability storage solutions, offering a comprehensive suite of professional services, which include consulting, design, implementing and servicing enterprise and midrange storage solutions.

Under the terms of the agreement, MTI will combine its core services capabilities -­ including storage networking assessment, installation, resource management and enhanced data protection -­ with EMC's leading Symmetrix and CLARiiON networked storage systems and platform-based software, Celerra Network Servers, Centera CAS (content addressed storage) systems and the Connectrix family of directors and switches. In addition, MTI will offer EMC's open management, infrastructure and protection software to help customers reduce management costs and complexity and lower total cost of ownership. MTI will also continue to fully support and service all existing products for its own installed customer base.

"We looked closely at the leading storage offerings in the marketplace, and it was clear that no company offered as comprehensive an offering as EMC, both in hardware and software," said Thomas P. Raimondi, MTI's President and CEO. "The combination of MTI's world-class services organization and EMC's leading solutions will provide compelling total-cost-of-ownership value for our customers. The breadth and depth of EMC's product line will enable us to offer our customers the broadest set of storage solutions."

The two companies forged the relationship to leverage EMC's technology leadership and MTI's more than 20 years of storage technology expertise and an industry-wide reputation for unsurpassed service and the ability to satisfy customer storage and enhanced data protection needs.

Frank Hauck, EMC's executive vice president of Customer Operations, added, "EMC and MTI are among the few companies dedicated entirely to storage. MTI offers a wide range of leading storage services expertise and can offer customers end-to-end solutions from design to training to post-sale services. With access to the most complete product lineup in the storage industry they can offer value-added solutions that scale from entry-level SANs to full enterprise networks. Their decision to partner with EMC came after surveying the entire storage marketplace for platforms that would enable MTI to deliver the most choice, functionality and value to customers."

One of those customers is The Hartz Mountain Corporation, one of the nation's largest privately held real estate owners/developers, whose Director of Information Technology, Jeremy Kahn, welcomes the agreement. "We get the benefit of MTI's formidable expertise in designing high-availability systems, implementing those systems and then, most importantly, maintaining those systems. They are truly a turnkey solutions provider, bringing together technology from the best names in the industry, such as Veritas, Brocade, FalconStor, and now EMC. MTI is our complete data storage provider."