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NetEx, the worldwide leader in high-performance data transport solutions, today announced that EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, will resell its HyperIP DRO (Data Replication Optimizer) appliance through the EMC Select Program. Products offered through the EMC Select Program include tape libraries, host bus adapters (HBAs), software and selected connectivity products, which are contained within EMC-qualified configurations. The program makes it possible for customers to buy these products directly from EMC to easily complete and implement information lifecycle management solutions. "With the EMC Select Program, we are able to serve our customers more efficiently by becoming the single source for their total storage solutions," said Tom Joyce, EMC's Vice President of Platforms Marketing. "By offering 'solution completer' products from leading vendors like NetEx, we can provide a more simplified and convenient method of purchasing storage networking components." "We are pleased to have our HyperIP DRO included in the EMC Select Program," said Robert MacIntyre, Vice President Business Development and Marketing at NetEx. "It will be easier for our joint customers to choose, purchase and install a total storage solution incorporating EMC's array of information storage and management products and our HyperIP DRO appliance with the knowledge that the joint solution has been tested and qualified for interoperability." Unlike existing techniques for high-speed data transport that increase complexity and cost with additional hardware requirements, HyperIP DRO is a simple appliance that easily attaches to an existing network infrastructure and requires no changes to servers/storage controllers, applications and/or network devices. Customers can immediately realize the data protection and efficiency of accelerating their remote data replication applications using their current IP networks. HyperIP DRO delivers unmatched performance, storage application support and data integrity for WAN-based IP data replication. No other IP solution offers comparable replication application acceleration and bandwidth conservation with the highest end-to-end throughput. HyperIP ensures that time and business critical data replication applications are consistently completed on time between distributed servers and/or storage controllers for remote IP storage networking, bulk data transfer between servers, high performance technical computing, financial, medical and digital video images transfers. HyperIP brings the same benefits to extended iSCSI replication, providing better performance over distance, improved link utilization and a shield against packet loss.