EMC Announces Acquisition of Configuresoft, Leading Provider of Server Configuration,...

EMC Announces Acquisition of Configuresoft, Leading Provider of Server
Configuration, Change and Compliance Management Software

Empowers Customers to Automate Visibility and Control Across their Physical
and Virtual Data Centers

HOPKINTON, Mass., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it
has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Configuresoft,
Inc. -- a leading provider of server configuration, change and compliance
management software. Today's announcement extends EMC's powerful solutions
for managing the entire IT information infrastructure across storage,
networks, servers, and applications -- enabling customers to automate
visibility and control across physical and virtual data centers. The
transaction is expected to close in June, subject to customary closing
conditions and is not expected to have a material impact to revenue or EPS for
the full 2009 fiscal year.

The announcement builds upon an already successful OEM relationship with
Configuresoft. EMC entered this OEM agreement in mid-2008 and the resulting
products of EMC Server Configuration Manager and EMC Configuration Analytics
Manager are currently helping customers quickly adopt virtualization,
dramatically cut costs, monitor policy and security compliance, and ensure
governance, risk and compliance (GRC) across their infrastructures.

"Customers are looking for new tools and processes to help them more
effectively manage the virtualized data center," said EMC's Chris Gahagan,
Senior Vice President, Resource Management Software. "Server configuration and
change management are among the top challenges faced by IT. With
Configuresoft, we're gaining market-leading server configuration management
solutions, giving customers the power they need to fully automate the data
center in compliance with new physical and virtual best practice policies.
With the addition of Configuresoft solutions to our broad family of IT
management software, EMC now offers the strongest and most complete
combination of server, storage, and network configuration automation tools on
the market today."

Configuresoft's Enterprise Configuration Manager (ECM) and Configuration
Intelligent Analytics (CIA) -- which will continue to be known as EMC Server
Configuration Manager and Configuration Analytics Manager based upon the OEM
agreement -- help companies achieve and maintain continuous operational,
regulatory, and security compliance across their data centers. The solutions
are able to quickly detect, prioritize and correct configuration compliance
issues and help companies implement an automated, continuous enterprise
compliance posture. Rich analytics offer customers a powerful dashboard for
viewing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and provide visibility across
network and server domains. Taking this one step further, by offering
powerful integrations with EMC's network change and configuration management
and service management solutions -- as well the company's automated root-cause
analysis and application dependency mapping software -- customers gain total
visibility and control across their physical and virtual IT infrastructure.

"At Configuresoft, we're committed to empowering customers with
information-based proactive management, enabling them to make the right choice
the first time and avoid surprises and costly re-work. Since 1999, we've
built a solid reputation as a leader in server configuration management,
helping customers dramatically cut costs, ensure policy compliance and
security, and validate their IT assets and infrastructure to effectively meet
their needs," said Alex Goldstein, Chief Executive Officer, Configuresoft.
"Becoming part of EMC is the right move at the right time -- giving us the
financial and technology resources of a proven leader in information
management to take our market leading solutions to the next level."

Upon completion of the acquisition, Configuresoft will become a part of EMC's
Resource Management Software Group.

About Configuresoft

Configuresoft, the world's leading enterprise configuration management
provider, delivers automated and optimized Lean IT, secure and compliant Clean
IT, and energy efficient Greet IT to IT Operations. Hundreds of
organizations, including 13 of the world's 25 largest companies, rely on
Configuresoft to effectively and efficiently manage the complexity of today's
physical and virtual IT environments. Configuresoft's team of security and
policy experts ensures continuous compliance with regulatory requirements such
as Sarbanes-Oxley and industry standards such as PCI DSS and Microsoft and
VMware Hardening Guides. To contact Configuresoft, please call (888) 447-2220
or visit www.configuresoft.com.

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 is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. All other product and
company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the
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
to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (vii) the relative and
varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and
mixture of product and services revenues; (viii) component and product quality
and availability; (ix) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of
customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and
market change; (x) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) war or
acts of terrorism; (xii) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified
employees; (xiii) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xiv) litigation that
we may be involved in; and (xv) other one-time events and other important
factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to
update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

SOURCE EMC Corporation

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