Corporate Profile

Information is a business’s most important asset. EMC provides the tools that can help you capitalize on it. By bringing our systems, software, services, and solutions together, we can work with you to put a comprehensive information infrastructure to work for your business.

We help customers design, build, and manage intelligent, flexible, and secure information infrastructures. These infrastructures are the versatile foundations on which organizations can implement their information lifecycle strategies, secure their critical information assets, leverage their content for competitive advantage, automate their data center operations, reduce power and cooling costs, and much more.

With an information infrastructure, people can avoid the potentially serious risks and reduce the significant costs associated with managing information, while fully exploiting its value for business advantage.

We help a range of customers

EMC works with organizations around the world, in every industry, in the public and private sectors, and of every size, from startups to the Fortune Global 500. Our customers include banks and other financial services firms, manufacturers, healthcare and life sciences organizations, Internet service and telecommunications providers, airlines and transportation companies, educational institutions, and public-sector agencies. Customers benefit from our expertise in key business and IT capabilities.

EMC helps customers meet critical business challenges with a comprehensive set of offerings that include:

• Systems — We offer the industry’s broadest line of tiered storage platforms and technologies, providing a comprehensive range of performance, scalability, functionality, and connectivity options.
• Software — We provide the industry’s broadest, most robust line of information infrastructure software for addressing business challenges such as: archiving, backup and recovery, business continuity and availability, collaboration, content management, data mobility and migration, resource management, and virtualization.
• Services — We offer the full range of services to design, build, and implement your information infrastructure, including comprehensive consulting services, implementation and integration, onsite operational support, as well as industry-leading training and customer support.
• Solutions — We have assembled the right mix of products and services from our own offerings and those of our partners to address a variety of specific situations. Our solutions meet the challenges faced by different industries, functional situations, and different-sized businesses.

Strong leadership record

EMC has a long tradition of innovation and leadership. During 2006, we invested nearly $4 billion in Research & Development and strategic acquisitions that strengthened our core capabilities and extended our reach into new, rapidly growing markets.

This commitment led to IDC’s designation of EMC as a market leader in the external storage systems, total storage software, and virtualization software markets. According to the Gartner Magic Quadrants, we lead the industry in enterprise content management, midrange enterprise disk arrays, storage resource management, security and information and event management, Web access management, and storage services. We hold the most stringent quality management certification from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO 9001), and our manufacturing operations hold an MRP II Class A certification.

A worldwide presence and global citizenship

EMC employs more than 37,000 people worldwide, about 40 percent of whom work outside the U.S. We are represented by approximately 400 sales offices and scores of partners in nearly 70 countries around the world.

We have R&D centers in Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, China, India, Israel, Russia, and the U.S., and manufacturing facilities in the U.S. and Ireland. We have the world's largest sales and service force focused on information infrastructure, and we work closely with a global network of technology, outsourcing, systems integration, service, and distribution partners.

We are committed to acting in a socially and environmentally responsible manner and to being an attentive and thoughtful neighbor in our local and global communities. We are a publicly traded company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC, and are a component of the S&P 500 Index.