EY Honored as Recipient of 2015 EMC Global Alliances Industry Partner of the Year Award

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May 26, 2016, 12:30 ET

NEW YORK, May 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- EY has received the 2015 EMC Global Alliances Industry Partner of the Year Award from EMC Corporation for bringing the Isolated Recovery Services and EY Insurance Nexus™ offerings to the market and winning new customer engagements for those offerings. This marks the first year EY received the exclusive recognition.

The award was presented May 2, to the firm at the 2016 EMC® World Global Partner Summit. The EMC Global Alliances Industry Partner of the Year award recognizes EMC partners across the Americas for developing innovative industry specific offerings that are enabled by EMC technologies.

"We are honored to receive this incredible distinction as the EMC Global Alliances Industry Partner of the Year. We are proud of our new alliance with EMC, which allows us to assist companies with maximizing their IT investments," said Francis J. Nemia, EY's Global Sponsor of the EY/EMC Alliance, and a Principal of Ernst & Young LLP. "Our alliance is about helping companies address the challenges they face in highly competitive -- and in many cases highly regulated – industries."

"The numbers speak for themselves about EY's contribution. EY has consistently proven to be an outstanding alliance partner to EMC, and has truly earned the EMC Global Alliances Industry Partner of the Year Award," said Jay Snyder, Senior Vice President, Global Alliances for EMC Corporation. "The firm constantly delivers the powerful results we look for in our partners, and we are thrilled to present them with the EMC Global Alliances Industry Partner of the Year Award."

EY and EMC announced a strategic alliance on March 16, 2016, to bring clients leading tools and service offerings to help accelerate return on investment and build greater confidence in their strategic initiatives and technology implementations.

The alliance provides for collaboration, co-innovation, joint offerings and various activities across relevant EMC product lines and EY practice areas. These include hybrid cloud enablement, data center network virtualization and segmentation, enterprise mobility management, governance risk & compliance, and cybersecurity services, among others.

EY firms have a successful history working with EMC to provide sector-focused capabilities to clients across multiple industries. One such offering is EY Insurance Nexus^TM, a strategic technology and services offering helping insurance carriers migrate core insurance operations and support functions to the cloud.

For more information about EY's strategic alliance with EMC, visit www.ey.com/ey-emc.

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