By Computerworld Philippines Staff
May 6, 2010

EMC and IBM recently extended their technology licensing agreement for storage interoperability and technical support that allows customers to continue to deploy combinations of EMC storage and IBM Power Systems Technologies.

The five year agreement is both an extension and expansion of the two firm’s initial agreement in March 2006. It provides EMC with certain interfaces for storage interoperability and technical support for the IBM i operating environment. 

“This agreement underscores IBM’s commitment to open innovation and is consistent with our drive towards industry interoperability. The ability for IBM i clients to attach IBM or EMC storage provides them with broad industry choices to meet their growing workload needs,” said Jim Herring, director of IBM Power Systems Hardware Business Line.

According to Barbara Robidoux, vice president of EMC’s storage product marketing, the extension and expansion of the licensing agreement with IBM will help EMC in strengthening its commitment to provide mutual customers using the IBM i operating environment with industry leading storage systems, software and services.

The executives, however, did not disclose financial terms. The development is the latest in a series of agreements between EMC and IBM for the last seven years.

In October 2003, EMC and IBM announced a licensing agreement that provided EMC with access to a range of storage interfaces and functionality for other IBM Systems lines and agreed to a mutual exchange of open-standards based interfaces for improved manageability and interoperability.

Two years later in June 2005, the companies extended their cooperative support agreement, which facilitates mutual response to joint customer issues including, the IBM Power System and all other IBM Systems lines.

Later in June 2007, the companies extended their licensing agreement for the zSeries attachment architecture which enables the interoperability of EMC Symmetrix family of storage systems with IBM System z.  – Tom S. Noda

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