Full Description

EMC Corporation (EMC), incorporated in 1979, develops, delivers and supports the information technology (IT) industry’s range of information infrastructure technologies and solutions. EMC’s Information Infrastructure business provides a foundation for customers to manage and secure their information, automate their data center operations. EMC’s VMware Virtual Infrastructure business, which is represented by a majority interest in VMware, Inc., is the provider of virtual infrastructure software solutions from the desktop to the data center. VMware’s virtual infrastructure software solutions run on industry-standard desktops and servers and support a range of operating system and application environments, as well as networking and storage infrastructures. EMC’s Information Infrastructure business comprises three segments: Information Storage, Content Management and Archiving, and RSA Information Security. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company acquired Pi Corporation, Document Sciences Corporation, Infra Corporation Pty Limited, WysDM Software Inc., Conchango plc. and Iomega Corporation. As of July 22, 2009, EMC had acquired approximately 94.2% interest in Data Domain, Inc. In August 2009, EMC acquired FastScale Technology, Inc., a provider of software platforms and solutions for enterprise IT.

Information Storage Segment

EMC offers a range of networked information storage systems, software and services to support customers’ information storage and management strategies. The Company’s storage systems are focused to be deployed in storage area network (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), content addressed storage (CAS) and/or direct attached storage (DAS) environments. The EMC Symmetrix family enables customers to scale the capacity of a single array from seven terabytes to more than a petabyte. During 2008, EMC integrated solid state drives (SSDs) into its information storage portfolio as part of its EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 storage system. In addition, EMC also introduced EMC Virtual Provisioning and new management capabilities for EMC Symmetrix DMX enterprise storage systems.

The EMC CLARiiON family of mid-tier networked storage systems provides functionality, performance, scalability and availability for mid-size enterprises and branch offices. In August 2008, EMC introduced the next-generation of the EMC CLARiiON family, the EMC CLARiiON CX4. The Company’s EMC Celerra family of multi-protocol storage systems range from the midrange to the high-end of the NAS market and delivers advanced scalability and functionality, management for customers that want to access storage via iSCSI, Fibre Channel and/or NAS networks. In August 2008, EMC unveiled an entry point to the EMC Celerra NS series of storage systems.

EMC Centera provides fast, secure online access to archived fixed content data that cannot be modified or will not change over time, such as digital x-ray images, movies, check images, medical records, e-mail correspondence and other similar types of digital objects. The Company’s EMC Connectrix family includes high-end directors and departmental switches to help customers of all sizes enhance the connectivity between servers and storage systems in a SAN, consolidate their networked storage systems, improve total cost of ownership and tier their storage environments.

In June 2008, EMC formed EMC’s Consumer and Small Business Products Division within its Information Storage segment. EMC introduced EMC LifeLine software to help consumers and small office and home office (SOHO) users store, protect and share all of their digital files from a networked device at any time. In 2008, Iomega introduced a variety of products, including the Iomega eGo Helium portable hard drive for the Apple MacBook Air notebook.

EMC’s Resource Management software helps customers’ store, protect, optimize and leverage their rapidly increasing volumes of information in IT environments. This line-up of products includes the EMC ControlCenter and EMC Visual families of storage resource management software; PowerPath automated, non-disruptive path management software; the EMC Smarts family of intelligent, automated IT management solutions, and Rainfinity Global File Virtualization for management of multi-vendor, Internet protocol (IP)-based NAS, CAS and file servers. EMC formed Decho Corporation in November 2008, to enable people protect, manage and enhance their digital echo, the personal digital information in their lives. Decho is focused to assist individuals take control of their digital echo through a set of cloud-based services that is focused to enable utilization, organization and enrichment of important personal information.

Content Management and Archiving Segment

EMC’s content management and archiving software, which includes the EMC Documentum, EMC Captiva and EMC Document Sciences xPression families, helps customers optimize business processes and create, manage, deliver and archive information, ranging from documents and discussions to e-mail, Web pages, images, XML, reports, records, rich media and application data. In 2008, EMC unveiled its EMC Documentum 6.5 enterprise content management (ECM) platform. Documentum 6.5 is a family of ECM products that combines the user experience of Web 2.0 and the enterprise-class Documentum platform to deliver a balance between business agility and IT control.

RSA Information Security Segment

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, delivers products, packaged-solutions and services designed to guard the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle, no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used. RSA’s specialization in Identity Assurance, Data Security and Security Information and Event Management technologies enables EMC’s customers to discover, classify and place appropriate controls around their data; secure access to the data, both inside and outside the network, at all times, and monitor and enforce these measures to prove compliance with security policies and regulations.

EMC Global Services

Within each of the EMC’s Information Infrastructure’s segments, the Company provides its customers professional service offerings. Among the offerings provided by EMC Global Services are consulting services, technology deployment, managed services, customer support services, training and certification, and EMC Proven Solutions.

VMware Virtual Infrastructure Segment

VMware is the provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center. VMware virtualization solutions represent an approach to computing that separates application software from the underlying hardware to achieve improvements in efficiency, availability, flexibility and manageability. VMware server virtualization technology is categorized as a virtual data center operating system (VDC-OS). A VDC-OS decouples the entire software environment from its underlying hardware infrastructure and enables the aggregation of multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks into shared-pools of resources that can be delivered dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed.