"E-mail addresses will eventually become like house addresses�everyone will have one,� says Gerry Gorman, Chairman and CEO of Mail.com, Inc. Indeed, e-mail is the tip of the iceberg in the fast-evolving field of Internet messaging, which includes fax mail, voice mail, and instant mail. �About five percent of the world�s population has an e-mail address,� he says. �The growth potential of that application alone is huge.�

To support its unlimited market growth potential and to scale its business to accommodate customer demand, Mail.com, a leading Internet messaging company, employs a fast, flexible information infrastructure built on EMC Enterprise Storage. In a 45-day span, Mail.com installed 27 terabytes of EMC storage and EMC software. The company�s demand for storage is directly connected to its demand for constant access to information.

"Without storage, we don�t have a business,� says Charles Walden, Executive Vice President, Technology. �We store e-mails and messages and we give people access to them. If this service becomes unavailable, the business is unavailable. Customers�businesses and consumers�expect e-mail to be as available as their phone service, so we need to be as serious about reliability as a phone company. We�re really about fundamentally changing the way the world communicates and we�ve built an infrastructure by standing on the shoulders of key partners to support that vision.�