EDS

EDS, a leading global technology services company with a broad portfolio of information technology and business process outsourcing services, partners with EMC to meet your demanding requirements.

Agility Alliance

The EDS Agility Alliance is a federation of market-leading infrastructure, application, and business process providers chartered with driving industry innovation and cost leadership through the development and delivery of EDS's Agile Enterprise Platform.

EMC brings to the Alliance unprecedented domain, technology, and thought leadership, providing our joint customers with the best-integrated technology and business services. EMC provides end-to-end storage technology layers within the EDS Agile Enterprise Platform, and EMC Documentum is the standard Java content management platform.

Beyond storage

The EMC-EDS Alliance goes beyond storage to provide information lifecycle management capabilities. EDS's innovative services suites provide enhanced on-demand storage services differentiated by EMC's information lifecycle management capabilities, enabling real time-to-market advantage and improved business performance for enterprises.

EDS and EMC have worked together since 1989. Together, we continue to raise the bar toward storage virtualization capabilities and demonstrate innovative storage solutions to create a true transformational utility model.

EMC and EDS collaboration

EMC is collaborating with EDS on extensive services. We provide technology vision, industry best practices for solution deployment or operation, information and infrastructure support models, technology relationships, and world-class services.

Among the wide array of EDS services and solutions on EMC technologies are:

• EDS Managed Storage Services — Build an information management foundation, ranging from the most robust to the most cost-effective, with the flexibility to align the infrastructure with the business value of the information.
• EDS E-mail Archive Services — Simplify the complexity of e-mail archive management to meet governmental and legal requirements or implement new internal standards.
• Information Protection Services — Protect all digital information in your enterprise with the flexibility to support your changing business requirements for information retention and recovery. EDS's solutions leverage multiple EMC technologies for information protection.
• EMC NAS Partner Program — A member of the EMC NAS Partner Program, EDS also works with EMC to define best practices for implementing EMC network-attached storage (NAS) systems. Take advantage of this partnership to implement NAS solutions more quickly and with less risk. And through a Cooperative Support Agreement, you receive the same industry-leading level of service and support you have come to expect from both companies.

This agreement ensures support cooperation, joint escalation procedures, and rapid response to provide you with the highest possible application availability and uptime.