What a great time to be the world's preeminent enterprise storage company. Building on our best year ever�and a decade in which our stock price increased 81,000 percent�we see a market of unlimited opportunity ahead. The growing global demand for information and the widespread acceptance of EMC E-Infostructure as the best solution for managing, sharing, and protecting information have put EMC at the forefront of a worldwide business revolution. Why? Because EMC is uniquely able to help customers accelerate growth.

Our customers include the world�s leading banks and financial services firms, Internet service providers and online retailers,
manufacturers, telecommunications providers, airlines, transportation companies, healthcare institutions, and regional and national government organizations.

As you will see in this year�s report, EMC E-Infostructure is launching customers everywhere into a world of unlimited opportunity.