Pentagon beefs up IT systems
Monday, 26 January 2004 15:45 EST
The US Defence Department has awarded a $40 million contract to information storage company, EMC, as part of a large-scale project to modernise its IT infrastructure. EMC's networked storage, business continuity and open management software has been purchased for the Pentagon Renovation Office (Penren), which supports multiple agencies within the Pentagon. Penren says it intends to build on the Pentagon's existing infrastructure of EMC networked storage and improve its information lifecycle management strategy to lower costs and improve data availability.
In a separate $4.3 million deal, Penren is to use Legato Software's business continuity solutions for automated monitoring of critical applications.
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