EMC to Provide Market-Leading Technology to Support Beijing’s eGovernment
Efforts
BEIJING, Nov. 1 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- The Beijing City Government’s
Information Office and EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today signed a Memorandum
of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on the city government’s "Digital
Beijing" initiatives. Over the next few years, the city of Beijing will
collaborate with EMC to build a state-of-the-art information infrastructure
that will ultimately house the city’s digital assets. Mr. Joseph M. Tucci,
Chairman, President and CEO of EMC, and Mr. Zhao Fengtong, Vice Mayor of the
City of Beijing, hosted today’s signing ceremony.
Mr. Zhao Fengtong said, "The Beijing City Government is committed to the
development of a comprehensive and advanced information infrastructure. We
are pleased that EMC is investing its technology and expertise in support of
the city of Beijing’s digital initiatives. Through the adoption of
innovative information technologies, we expect to improve the city’s
efficiency and quality of service for our citizens."
The alliance between EMC and Beijing will help change the way the city
government interacts with its citizens. Specifically, the alliance will
include:
eGovernment Architecture -- EMC will assist in developing and defining
information infrastructure and information security standards for the
government, and it will improve the eGovernment’s information lifecycle
management architecture as necessary.
Business Continuity Plan -- EMC will assist in developing a data recovery
information infrastructure and setting up a business continuity/backup center
and information security lab to ensure business continuity and information
availability.
Citizen Center -- EMC will help develop the information infrastructure
for the Citizen Experience Center, which will provide powerful online
interfaces to enable faster responses and new levels of service.
Digital Data Archives -- EMC will explore information management and
archiving solutions for Beijing’s digital data.
In support of these digital initiatives, EMC will work closely with
Beijing’s IT specialists to build an information infrastructure based on
EMC’s portfolio of tiered storage systems and information management
software to digitize, index, archive, and repurpose the city’s information.
In addition, EMC will leverage its existing EMC China Solution Center network
and remote-networking capabilities to educate the city’s IT employees about
EMC’s information management and storage capabilities. By the summer of
2008, EMC plans to train 200 senior city information technology professionals
to provide support for Beijing’s new information infrastructure.
Mr. Joseph M. Tucci said, "We are delighted to have the opportunity to
work with the city of Beijing as they embark on their campaign to modernize
the government’s information technology. I have been a frequent visitor to
Beijing over the past few years, and I always come away impressed with the
city’s passion for world-class innovation. We see tremendous opportunity
for EMC in China and look forward to helping one of its most prominent cities
move its digitization efforts forward."
Mr. Steve Leonard, EMC President of Asia Pacific and Japan, added, "EMC’
s growth opportunities are exceptionally strong in APJ. The most strategic
way to expand our market leadership is by investing back into the region. We
are thrilled to collaborate with the city of Beijing to design a technology
solution that will improve its operations, support the highest levels of data
protection and disaster recovery, and offer its citizens first-rate service."
About Digital Beijing
In 1999, Beijing Municipality launched the drive of "Digital Beijing,"
with the final target of shaping the sophisticated city-level digital
capacity. This digital capacity is based on the completion of broadband &
multimedia information networks and GIS, the integration of the city’s
information resources, and the buildup of information systems for
eGovernment, eCommerce, online education, remote medical treatment, labor and
social insurance, and more.
By the end of China’s "Tenth Five-Year Plan," the framework of "Digital
Beijing" has been achieved. As a leader of this kind of project within
China, Beijing has completed building the infrastructure and is now moving to
the next phase of online services. Information communications technology
(ICT) is playing a more and more important role in the city’s economic and
social development.
The vision of Digital Beijing is set to be preliminarily realized in "The
Eleventh Five-Year Plan," when 100% of key government services are supported
by ICT, over 80% of business for approval can be transacted online, and each
task within the Special Program for Construction of Digital Olympics is
fulfilled. This will establish a comprehensive information service system,
which is based on individuality and human-orientation, consistent with
international norms, and demonstrates Chinese characteristics. All of this
will make a sound groundwork for moving Beijing into the information society.
About EMC in China
EMC entered the Chinese market in 1996 and today operates major sales
offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chengdu. EMC’s current
investments in China include:
-- A state-of-the-art software development center and
EMC-Fudan Network Storage Training Center in Shanghai
-- The EMC China Solution Center network, with five centers
in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Taipei
that support and demonstrate EMC’s technologies for
customers and partners
-- A strong development partnership with Neusoft
-- The "EMC Classroom" at Tsinghua University
-- Thirty-five service centers across the country
Recently, EMC announced plans to invest USD$500 million in China over the
next five years, underscoring EMC’s deepened commitment to the rapidly
growing China marketplace.
According to IDC, EMC is the #1 storage software vendor in People’s
Republic of China (PRC), capturing 39% of the country’s storage software
revenue in 2005 [a]. In addition to leading the storage software market,
sales of EMC storage systems also led China’s External Disk Storage market
last year. 2005 revenue from EMC external disk storage systems represented
21.8% of the total External Disk Storage market, according to IDC (b).
About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services and
solutions for information management and storage that help organizations
extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost,
across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC’s
products and services can be found at http://www.EMC.com .
EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are
the property of their respective owners.
(a) Source: IDC Asia/Pacific Semiannual Storage Software
Tracker, 2H 2005
(b) Source: IDC Asia/Pacific Quarterly Disk Storage Systems
Tracker, Q1 2006