EMC World 2009 Kicks Off With Joe Tucci and Paul Maritz Keynotes on Future of Enterprise...

EMC World 2009 Kicks Off With Joe Tucci and Paul Maritz Keynotes on Future of
Enterprise Cloud Computing

EMC and VMware Leaders Speak on Virtual Data Centers and Private Clouds to
Thousands of Attendees at Major Industry Event

ORLANDO, Fla., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC World 2009 -- With a challenging
economic environment making data center and IT managers more focused on
efficiency than ever before, EMC Chairman, President and CEO Joe Tucci today
predicted that virtualization will become the foundation for cloud computing.
Tucci and VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz kicked off EMC World 2009 with
a keynote to thousands of IT administrators, customers, technologists,
analysts and journalists about the mega trends currently shaping the IT
industry, including the emergence of private cloud computing that virtual data
centers enable.

"Traditional data centers are very static -- each application has its own
infrastructure -- no matter what its workload," said Tucci. "In a virtual
data center, resources are provisioned as needed. This is the type of
environment customers are bridging to today. The transformation to a private
cloud -- a dynamic, efficient, on-demand and flexible resource -- is taking
place now. There are very few, if any, applications that can't work
efficiently in a virtual or cloud environment and that is accelerating the
move to virtualized data centers."

Maritz added, "By and large, new applications are no longer being written to
traditional operating systems. The new frameworks that people are programming
allow us to find out in a much more natural way what the application is doing,
and we can then use the information to make management better and use
underlying resources -- whether it is servers, networks or storage -- more
efficiently because we have deeper insight into the application."

Maritz continued, "Whether you want to call it the software mainframe or the
private cloud, the concept is the same. How do you get this aggregation of
resources to become fundamentally more dynamic, more flexible and more
efficient? To do that you have to work in conjunction with those resources,
signal information down to them and get information back from them so that you
can take the right steps necessary before you start sliding things around. We
have made significant investments to take those steps and are delivering that
capability to customers today."

Over the past several weeks, both EMC and VMware have unveiled new
technologies that enable virtual data centers and private cloud computing. In
April, EMC introduced the new EMC(R) Symmetrix(R) V-Max(TM) storage system, a
breakthrough new approach to high-end data storage with an innovative new
architecture purpose -- built to support thousands of virtual servers. Also
in May, VMware introduced VMware vSphere(TM) 4, the industry's first operating
system for building the private cloud, enabling the delivery of efficient,
flexible and reliable IT as a service. VMware vSphere(TM) 4 is expected to be
generally available during the second quarter of 2009. Both are being
showcased at the event.

EMC World, from May 18-21 is a comprehensive educational forum that provides
attendees with unparalleled access to learn, challenge, explore and connect
experts from EMC and over 100 partners, discussing and demonstrating the
technologies and strategies that help customers get the maximum value from
their information and their information infrastructures.

Anyone can be alerted to the latest news and important event updates from
attendees at EMC World 2009 by following the EMC World Twitter page at:
http://twitter.com/emcworld. Additionally, starting today, EMC will have a
dedicated EMC World 2009 news page containing the latest EMC and partner news
releases, event photos, videos and executive presentation slides at:
http://www.emc.com/emcworld2009 .

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, Symmetrix and V-Max are registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC
Corporation in the United States and other countries. VMware and VMware
vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the
United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned
herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

Forward-Looking Statements

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Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those
projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk
factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic
or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology
spending; (iii) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (iv) risks
associated with managing the growth of our business, including risks
associated with acquisitions and investments and the challenges and costs of
integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (v)
fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating results and risks associated with
trading of VMware stock; (vi) competitive factors, including but not limited
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varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and
mixture of product and services revenues; (viii) component and product quality
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customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and
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