SAN FRANCISCO, ORACLE OPENWORLD 2000, Oct. 4, 2000 (http://www.oracle.com/tellmemore/?332347) Internet infrastructure leaders EMC Corporation, Cisco Systems and Oracle Corporation, today announced a major expansion of their ECOstructure Initiative (EMC/Cisco/Oracle Infrastructure Initiative) through the addition of new business continuity solutions and worldwide efforts to further simplify and accelerate the implementation of highly available e-business infrastructures. The companies are showcasing their combined solutions to thousands of users at Oracle OpenWorld. 2000 (Oct. 1-6) at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
The three technology leaders released their new "Recovery" blueprint, which is available for downloading at http://www.eECOstructure.com. "Recovery" builds on the previously released "Resilient" high availability blueprint and details additional integrated solutions and best practices from all three companies for failover and failback between primary and secondary servers. "Recovery" provides customers with a technical roadmap that enables them to reduce downtime and potential data loss caused by outages that can affect their operations.
The ECOstructure companies are conducting focused blueprint training for their field technical architects as well as key systems integrator partners to further simplify joint implementations. As part of this effort, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young U.S. LLC plans to align with ECOstructure to develop approaches and methodologies using the ECOstructure architecture. The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group is already training over 150 consultants to deliver ECOstructure-based solutions to its clients worldwide.
"For companies to successfully shift to a new e-business model and advance in the marketplace, they must first consider a sound, secure and scalable technology infrastructure," said Steven Sparks, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young vice president of the Infrastructure and Network Integration group. "We believe ECOstructure to be an appropriate foundation architecture for our solution offerings. In fact, we plan to implement ECOstructure in our Advanced Development Centers in North America. In addition, we have proposed ECOstructure, in conjunction with the initiative partners, at several of our telecommunications, healthcare and publishing clients."
McKessonHBOC, the world's largest pharmaceutical supply management and healthcare information technology company, is the first to embrace this architecture. "The ability to integrate a validated blueprint built upon EMC, Cisco and Oracle technologies provides the foundation we need to rapidly extend our global operations, lower equipment costs and dramatically simplify implementation of a comprehensive e-business architecture in support of our iMcKesson, Supply Management Online and ITB E-Commerce business offerings. Equally important, it allows us to focus on our core business, rather that issues surrounding technology integration," said Carmine J. Villani, senior vice president and chief information officer. "We are pleased and confident that these three established infrastructure leaders will help us further strengthen our commitment to improving healthcare management solutions for our business partners."
EMC, Cisco and Oracle are also developing two additional integration centers to develop and showcase solutions based on the blueprints. The centers will open later this year in the United Kingdom and Japan, and will join the original facility at Oracle's Redwood Shores, Calif., headquarters as engineering and marketing Centers of Excellence. The Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Group also plans to deploy ECOstructure in many of its European Centers of Excellence in 2001.
The ECOstructure alliance comprises engineering personnel and products from each company and is dedicated toward ongoing testing and validation of existing and new e-business solutions based on the Oracle Internet Platform; EMC's Symmetrix Enterprise Storage systems and software; and the Cisco 7000 Series routers, Catalyst 6000 family switches, Cisco LocalDirector, Cisco Content Engine and the Cisco Secure PIX firewall. ECOstructure is part of Oracle's E-Business Continuity program of highly available, securely managed computing solutions.
Since the introduction of the first "Resilient" high availability environment blueprint in April 2000, there have been more than 6,000 registrations for the blueprints at the jointly managed Web site. In addition, a highly successful series of technical seminars is being conducted in over 50 cities across the U.S., Europe and the Asia/Pacific region. Seminars are planned for cities throughout the U.S. and Europe over the next two months. Information about locations, dates and registration can be found at http://www.eECOstructure.com.
