OREANDA-NEWS. April 14, 2010. EМС Information Systems CIS recognized CROC as its Platinum Partner in Business Volume 2009; Financial and Insurance Sector Partner of the Year 2009; Power and Energy Sector Partner of the Year 2009; and also recognized CROC's Solution Center as the “Best EMC Solution Center in Central Europe.” EMC Corporation is a global leader in information infrastructure solutions.

"EMC has been operating in the Russian market for 10 years now and we have been working efficiently with CROC for 8 years. We have recognized CROC as the leading systems integrator many times: in 2006 for EMC Solutions Promotion in the Energy Sector; in 2006 through 2008 for EMC Solutions Promotion in the Financial and Insurance sector; and in 2008 for Business Volume. I am glad to announce that 2009 was no exception. We jointly distribute information on the most efficient and advanced technologies and help our enterprise customers solve their business challenges," said Sergei Karpov, Director General, ЕМС Russia and CIS.

During 2009, CROC implemented more than 100 large-scale projects on EMC hardware and software including: storage system optimization for Rusbank, EMC Documentum document management system development for Perm Region Administration and Volga Territorial Generation Company, and storage system deployment as part of an information lifecycle management solution for NPO Saturn.

"EMC offers innovative solutions that help to build efficient businesses. This is the reason EMC is our key partner, and we are committed to developing our relationship," said Boris Bobrovnikov, Director General, CROC. "Our Solution Center is a good example: we launched the center last year and we continue to actively develop it. The center is highly esteemed by our customers because its system evaluation capabilities help reduce project risks."

CROC has 34 EMC certified employees who hold a combined total of 92 certificates (in such areas as archiving, backup, consolidation, as well as EMC CLARiiON and EMC Symmetrix systems). During the previous year, CROC's team increased its expertise in server and workstation virtualization and e-mail and file archiving using EMC Source One and DiskXtender on EMC Centera, as well as backup system centralization for extensive networks using EMC Avamar deduplication and NetWorker software. During the year following CROC's EMC Solution Center launch, its hardware and software was further expanded by a wide range of EMC products as well as solutions from other vendors, including VMware, Cisco, Oracle, and Dell. The capacities of the EMC Velocity? Signature Solution Center were expanded by a Dell data center, workstation virtualization and backup solutions, and Data Domain tape library for data deduplication.

Pavel Rusanov, LAN, Server, and Database Administration Department Director, Mosvodokanal Municipal Enterprise said: "The demonstration of virtual environment capabilities in CROC's Solution Center, which is practically identical with regard to equipment scope to Mosvodokanal's infrastructure, motivated us to have CROC's professionals audit our IT infrastructure. We wanted to know whether our successfully operating EMC CLARiiON storage system with iSCSIs could be used as a central repository for VMware virtual infrastructure. In the Solution Center we carefully examined this architecture. The audit showed that our choice was correct and we are now planning to begin the project."