One customer, Euroclear's managing director of corporate technology, Michael Pilkington, said GDDR has taken the organization's information infrastructure to a new level, providing an assurance to deliver services to clients, even during severe business disruption scenarios.

"As the world's largest provider of domestic and cross-border securities settlement and related services, the high availability of our mission-critical IT systems is a fundamental requirement of Euroclear," Pilkington said.

Carl Greiner, the senior vice president of the software and IT services group at Ovum, said enterprise customers are asking for simplified, standardized disaster restart and recovery functionality that enhances information and system availability across critical operations.

"With this new solution, EMC is providing mainframe customers with a new level of automation, protection and management agility. This is expanding the market for this type of functionality," Greiner said.

EMC GDDR software for Symmetrix DMX storage system customers with three-site mainframe configurations is available now from EMC and its worldwide network of partners.