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Partner Comments on VMware Site Recovery Manager

“3PAR’s virtualized storage and easy-to-implement remote copy software make it possible for organizations to cost effectively protect more data without complexity,” said Craig Nunes, Vice President of Marketing at 3PAR.  “3PAR is working with VMware to ensure that our customers will be able to use VMware Site Recovery Manager with 3PAR’s InServ storage systems to further increase the reliability and decrease the complexity of their disaster recovery deployments.”

“Dell customers are leveraging VMware virtualization across their data centers to enjoy the availability, manageability and flexibility they require for their production environments,” said Brad Anderson, senior vice president, Business Product Group, Dell Inc. “Dell and VMware have worked together to ensure that customers can take advantage of the reliability and auto-replication built into the Dell EqualLogic iSCSI storage platform with VMware Site Recovery Manager, which together deliver the simple and automated disaster recovery that customers need.”

“EMC and VMware share a common vision for comprehensive datacenter disaster recovery solutions that are simple, automated and reliable,” said EMC’s Frank Hauck, Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Customer Satisfaction.  “By delivering support for VMware Site Recovery Manager with storage adapters for EMC’s industry-leading portfolio of replication software, companies of all sizes will be able to take advantage of EMC and VMware delivering on this joint vision.  All of EMC's integration and testing with VMware helps protect our customers’ existing investments in EMC technology, enhances VMware's disaster recovery time, and is another step in EMC’s commitment to add greater value for our mutual customers.”

“Improving disaster recovery is a key reason that FalconStor customers are adopting VMware virtualization,” said Bernie Wu, Vice President, Business Development, FalconStor Software. “FalconStor has worked with VMware to integrate VMware Site Recovery Manager and FalconStor's Disaster Recovery Solution for VMware environments. This integration provides disaster recovery management and automation while leveraging the benefits of the VMware virtualization platform."

"Today's announcement marks an important milestone in our successful partnership with VMware," said John Mansfield, senior vice president, Global Solutions Strategy and Development, Hitachi Data Systems."Hitachi Data Systems and VMware are delivering complementary technologies that leverage the combined strengths of industry-leading storage and server virtualization providers to enable customers to deploy integrated disaster recovery solutions. Hitachi's market-proven array-based replication storage services together with VMware Site Recovery Manager delivers a powerful combination of technologies that is designed to offer organizations robust disaster recovery solutions that specifically target VMware environments."

“Customers can lower business risk by using proven business continuity solutions that simplify the protection and recovery of their critical systems and data" said Stephan Schmitt, vice president of marketing, StorageWorks Division, HP. "HP worked closely with VMware to integrate HP’s StorageWorks arrays and array-based Continuous Access remote replication software with VMware Site Recovery Manager.  HP's ProLiant, BladeSystem and StorageWorks portfolios, used with VMware Site Recovery Manager, provide affordable, automated disaster recovery.”

"IBM has been a leader in virtualization for more than 40 years -- from the introduction of our mainframe technology, to our use of virtualization technology on x86 servers, to storage virtualization leadership with SVC," said Barry Rudolph, Vice President, Stack Integration and Strategy, IBM System Storage.  "Today, as we enable our clients to virtualize their entire information infrastructure, VMware's Site Recovery Manager working with IBM's SAN Volume Controller will help our mutual customers to implement fully virtualized business continuity solutions with greater flexibility in configuring both servers and storage to protect critical aspects of their business."

"The combination of VMware Site Recovery Manager and LeftHand’s SAN/iQ® Remote Copy will enable customers to overcome the obstacles that have made traditional disaster recovery solutions painfully difficult, including over-provisioning at recovery sites and interrupted replication during testing,” said Larry Cormier, vice president of marketing at LeftHand Networks®. “Our work with VMware to complete certification with Site Recovery Manager delivers customers the solution they need to expand and improve disaster recovery protection across their datacenter.”

"NetApp customers are turning to VMware virtualization to help them meet their increasingly challenging disaster recovery requirement," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Solutions Marketing at NetApp. "VMware Site Recovery Manager complements NetApp’s storage solutions with advanced disaster recovery management and automation. This combination will provide current and future customers with a powerful and reliable disaster recovery solution across their data center and reduce the risk, cost and complexity associated with traditional disaster recovery approaches."