EMC Corporation and industry partners VMware, MDi and E-Konek Pilipinas, Inc. announced a new partnership to launch Lina Group of Companies (LGC) Private Cloud for businesses in the Philippines. The Enterprise Private Cloud Project was announced as a part of the 13th anniversary celebrations of the E-Konek group in the Philippines.
Through this partnership, EMC will provide its industry leading hyper-converged infrastructure – EMC VSPEX Blue along with XtremIO, the leading All-Flash Enterprise Storage Array purpose-built for the Cloud. The technologies will enable simplicity by delivering virtualization, compute, storage, networking and data protection in an agile, scalable, easy to manage hyper-converged infrastructure appliance.
“We would like to congratulate E-Konek Pilipinas, Inc. for their 13 years of success. E-Konek is always looking for innovative ways to improve customer experience, efficiency, and agility. They have built a solid reputation in the industry and we are proud to be their partner on the LGC Enterprise Private Cloud Project,” said Ronnie Latinazo, EMC Philippines country manager.
“EMC has been a strategic partner of e-KONEK since 2011. We have worked on many projects together and the latest being this Enterprise Private Cloud Project for Lina Group of Companies,” said Comm. Guillermo Parayno, E-Konek Pilipinas, Inc. chairman & president. “EMC provides our company with cutting-edge solutions, as well as consultancy services, technological expertise and exceptional customer support. We have a trusted partnership with EMC based on sterling after-sales service and a commitment to quality,” he added.
E-Konek Pilipinas, Inc. specializes in e-governance systems focused on cross-border management and trade facilitation as well as providing systems for freight forwarding, warehousing and transport management. It is the IT arm of the LGC, which provides for all the IT requirements of the Group ranging from IT project management, network and facilities as well as data center operations.