Microsoft, EMC ink deal

EMC and Microsoft report they have formed an alliance that will enable users to operate Microsoft applications within their EMC infrastructure.

EMC will bring to market new solutions that integrate the Documentum platform with multiple Microsoft solutions and platform technologies including Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, the 2007 Microsoft Office system, SQL Server 2005 and enterprise search solutions. The agreement will allow SharePoint users to take advantage of the advanced ECM capabilities of the Documentum platform.

The companies report these solutions from EMC will allow manual or automatic archiving of content from SharePoint repositories to a Documentum repository while keeping content accessible and searchable from within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. By archiving content from SharePoint into Documentum for long-term retention and management, users will be well-positioned to meet compliance, content and storage optimization policies and procedures