EMC Documentum Reaches New Heights in Scalability and Performance in Enterprise Content...

EMC Documentum Reaches New Heights in Scalability and Performance in
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Performance Benchmark

Study, Conducted with HP and Microsoft, Demonstrates How Customers Can Achieve
Lower Total Cost of Ownership for ECM Solutions

HOPKINTON, Mass., April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today further
demonstrated the market-leading scalability and performance of its EMC
Documentum enterprise content management (ECM) platform in a new benchmarking
study conducted in conjunction with HP and Microsoft Corp. For customers,
these dramatic results mean companies deploying EMC Documentum 6.5 can now
experience unprecedented levels of scalability and dramatic reductions in
total cost of ownership.

The newly released study is one of the largest-ever benchmarks in the ECM
industry, demonstrating 100,000 users of Documentum 6.5 engaging in a variety
of content management-related transactions and sustaining that workload over
the course of a 12-hour workday. Transactions included the most common
content management activities. To read more about these transaction types,
please view the full benchmark report at http://developer.emc.com/Documentum

The benchmark was conducted with the understanding that enterprises often
incur substantial additional costs when attempting to meet today's required
scalability requirements. EMC designed Documentum 6.5 with these challenges
in mind, as the solution is aimed at helping large-scale enterprises contain
total cost of ownership. To that end, Documentum ECM 6.5 allows for many more
concurrent users per application server than previous versions of Documentum
software -- enabling customers to scale larger while reducing their hardware
costs from their current implementation.

"Our demonstration of 100,000 EMC Documentum 6.5 (Webtop) users is not only 10
times larger than any other published benchmarking study in the ECM industry,
it was achieved while dramatically reducing the overall TCO over previous
versions of EMC Documentum," said Frank Chao, Vice President of Product
Operations, Content Management and Archiving Division at EMC. "Given that
companies are continuously turning to ECM solutions to deal with the explosive
growth in information volume, the results are truly groundbreaking. Companies
that deploy EMC Documentum 6.5 on top of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 will be
able to take advantage of the reduced system footprint, resulting in
improvements in total cost of ownership at rates greater than 50 percent over
previous EMC Documentum versions. This truly provides our customers more for
less during these difficult economic times."

All Documentum software applications were installed on HP ProLiant BL680c G5
server blades at Microsoft's Enterprise Engineering Center -- designed to
tackle the most complex re-creations of real enterprise production
environments. The database server tier was installed on HP Integrity
Superdome servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 64-bit for Itanium
based systems and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 64-bit Enterprise edition. The
SQL Server Database and Documentum file store was Fibre Channel attached to an
EMC CLARiiON CX3-80 storage system and the file serving software of
StorageWorks Scalable NAS from HP. Additionally, HP LoadRunner software was
used to simulate the workload of 100,000 users to load test and measure
end-to-end performance for this benchmark. It was running on HP ProLiant
multi-processor server blades.

"These benchmark results are further evidence of how enterprise customers
today can use state-of-the-art software, such as Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and
Microsoft Windows Server 2008, for breakthrough results," said Dan Neault,
general manager, SQL Server Marketing at Microsoft Corp. "We are delighted to
work with industry leaders EMC and HP to demonstrate how customers can derive
maximum value from their data assets through improved efficiency and cost
savings."

"Enterprise customers need a content management solution that is highly
reliable, scalable and cost-effective to meet their business demands," said
Lorraine Bartlett, director, Worldwide Server Marketing, Business Critical
Systems, HP. "The scalability of the HP Integrity Superdome server delivers
consistent and predictable performance with increasing workloads. This allows
a reduction in the cost per transaction while maintaining mission-critical
availability."

Key benchmark results achieved by Documentum include:

-- 100,000 users
-- 748,000 transactions per hour
-- 0.86 seconds average response time
-- 878 applications server hits per second

The EMC Documentum ECM Suite version 6.5 is a family of products that marries
the great user experience of Web 2.0 and the strength of the enterprise-class
Documentum platform to deliver a balance between business agility and IT
control. The solution provides several key innovations that deliver improved
enterprise performance and scalability, federated records management, as well
as accelerated transactional business processes.

For more information on the benchmark, please visit
http://developer.emc.com/Documentum

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of
information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations
of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their
information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at
www.EMC.com.

EMC, Documentum and CLARiiON are either registered trademarks or trademarks of
EMC Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other
trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

SOURCE EMC Corporation

Craig Librett of EMC Corporation, +1-508-293-7298, librett_craig@emc.com