EMC Centera Proven Certification Program

The Centera Proven Program offers a variety of cost-saving and marketing benefits, while assuring your customers that your integrated application is of the highest quality and that you continue to be committed to Centera innovations.

Benefits to Partners

• Reduced technical support costs and increased customer satisfaction
• Increased customer confidence through association with the Centera Proven logo
• Invitation to scheduled industry events as a Centera Proven partner
• Solution listed prominently as Centera Proven on EMC.com and the Centera Developer's Portal
• Solution announced as Centera Proven in Centera Quarterly Partner and Customer Newsletters

What We Test

• Hardware and Software Setup: These test cases verify the server hardware and server operating system configuration. We configure the Centera Cluster to meet application-specific requirements. We establish Centera authentication and validate access to Centera using basic calls available within the application under test.
• Basic Centera Capabilities: We verify the functionality of the Centera write, read, and delete capabilities that the tested application supports.
• Centera Replication: We verify the application's support for Centera replication features.
• Centera Disaster Recovery and Offsite Backup/Replication: We validate the application's support for Centera Multi-Cluster Failover to an Offsite Replica Cluster.
• Compliance Market and Retention: We verify the application's retention support and functionality.
• Single Instance Storage: We verify the application's ability to offer single instance storage for identical objects.
• Collision Avoidance: We verify the application's ability to support Collision Avoidance regardless of identical content.
• Capacity Reporting: We verify application reporting of Centera capacity.
• Technical Support: We collect information about your existing technical support model.
• Compliance Market and Retention: We verify the application's retention support and functionality (if appropriate).

For the purposes of testing, Centera applications are divided into the following market segments: Email Archiving, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Medical Imaging, Database Archiving, Desktop Backup, Voice Archiving, Gateways/File System Archiving(FSA), Mainframe, Information Classification and Security Information Management. Some of the test cases and procedures described in the Test Plan do not apply to some of the market segments.

Process

Step 1. Let Us Know You're Interested

Initiate the process by providing information about your product and your company at our certification portal. We will then contact you to request basic company and contact information, as well as product information such as name/version, SDK version and your target market.

Step 2. Administrative and Technical Preparation

This step consists of establishing the relationship between your company and AppLabs by way of a Master Testing Agreement and a Purchase Order which will cover the test fee. In addition, the AppLabs Test Lead will communicate with you to determine hardware, software and connectivity requirements for testing.

Step 3. Test Execution and Beyond

We will work with your team to conduct the test remotely from our Centera Proven Lab. This test takes approximately 1 week. Upon completion, we will send you the results of the test and EMC will follow up with you about your new EMC Centera Proven marketing benefits.

Pricing

The basic test fee for each Centera Proven test is $4,000 US. There may be an additional fee for products with a non-English application interface language. Please ask for details during the registration process, if applicable.

Applications that are registered for re-testing after initially failing the Centera Proven testing will be charged a fee to be determined by AppLabs based on the amount of work involved.

How To Start

Take a step-by-step look at the testing process. When you're ready, contact us to begin the process.

Contact AppLabs

ecpp@applabs.com
Phone: 801-852-9500
Fax: 801-852-9501