EMC at a Glance

Milestones

See how EMC has grown over the years by reviewing this timeline of major EMC milestones from 2000 to the present.

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2007

August

Documentum 6 Enterprise Content Management Platform
EMC unveils Documentum 6 enterprise content management (ECM) platform. This broad spectrum of ECM products includes software covering transactional content management, archiving, knowledge worker, compliance, interactive content management, and platform infrastructure.

July

Broad Line of New Storage Systems and Software
EMC introduces a new line-up of storage systems and software that allows customers of all sizes to store information more cost-effectively, securely, and intelligently. The product line includes a new entry-level Rainfinity appliance for file archiving.

Secure Information Sharing Architecture
EMC forms an alliance with Cisco and Microsoft to develop the Secure Information Sharing Architecture, which allows government information to be shared across organizations. The architecture meets the increased need for protecting and sharing information.

June

Verid Acquisition
EMC acquires Florida-based Verid to broaden and strengthen the offerings of RSA, our security division. The acquisition adds key knowledge-based authentication technology to a portfolio that covers the end-to-end verification process.

May

Improved RSA Encryption for Cisco
EMC extends its strategic alliance with Cisco via RSA, which begins working with the networking company to develop technology that will help their customers improve and simplify encryption of confidential information.

EMC Disc Library 6000 Series
EMC announces the world’s largest single system virtual tape library (VTL), which scales to 1.8 petabytes of usable compressed capacity and backs up more than 11 terabytes of data per hour. The broadest portfolio of backup and recovery technology in the industry gets even bigger.

The EMC Information Heritage Initiative
EMC launches an initiative to seek out, recognize, honor, and support those who demonstrate exemplary stewardship of the world’s information treasures, whether on a global, national, regional, local, or personal scale. EMC formalizes its longstanding commitment to help preserve and protect humanity’s information heritage.

The Global Collaborative Research Network
To drive the exploration, discovery, and application of new technologies that will shape the future of information infrastructure, EMC brings together some of the world’s brightest technology minds from across industry and academia.

April

Five Years of Technology and Market Leadership for Centera
EMC reaches a key milestone for Centera, reinforcing the fact that the system remains the first and only storage solution purpose-built from the ground up to address the active online use of archived information.

March

New Services Frameworks for Next-Generation Data Center Architectures
EMC announces collaboration on new technologies to meet the need for more advanced information infrastructures. This announcement extends our partnership with Fujitsu Siemens Computers, which began a decade ago.

First Digital Universe Forecast
EMC sponsors a research report, authored by IDC, that for the first time measures and forecasts the amounts and types of digital information created and copied in the world. The report, entitled The Expanding Digital Universe: A Forecast of Worldwide Information Growth Through 2010, has sweeping implications for individuals, businesses, and public policy.

Seventh Year as #1 Provider of Storage Software
EMC is ranked as the #1 provider of storage software in 2006 in the March 07 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker. EMC also leads the worldwide storage software market in total revenue for the 16th consecutive quarter, and is among the five fastest growing data protection and recovery vendors in year-over-year revenue growth.

February

Russian Software Development Center Plans
EMC unveils plans to build a state-of-the-art software development center in St. Petersburg, Russia. The facility is part of a broader commitment to invest $100 million in Russia over the next four years.

VMware IPO
EMC announces a key IPO for VMware, the global leader in virtualized-desktop software. The IPO entails a plan to offer approximately 10% of the company, while retaining full ownership of the remaining shares. The expectation is that the IPO will unlock more of VMware’s value for EMC shareholders.

2006

Gartner Inc, positions EMC in the "Leaders" quadrant in the "Magic Quadrant for Midrange Enterprise Disk Arrays, 2H06" report.
American Honda Motor Co., Inc. recognizes EMC for its excellence in providing information management and storage systems, software, and solutions to manage Honda’s ever-increasing volume of information.
EMC acquires Avamar Technologies.
The Beijing City Government’s Information Office and EMC sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
EMC continues to extend its mid-tier storage leadership with the introduction of new EMC CLARiiON CX3 UltraScale systems, featuring combined Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity within the same array.
The Global Technology Distribution Council awards EMC its inaugural Rising Star Award, recognizing EMC’s large growth gains in software sold through IT distributors.
Fujitsu Computer Products of America Inc. honors EMC with its Innovation Leadership Award for the document management solution implemented at healthcare provider Lahey Clinic.
EMC completes RSA Security and Network Intelligence acquisitions, significantly broadening and bolstering our information-centric security strategy.
Readers of Windows IT Pro magazine name two of EMC’s market-leading networked storage systems the 2006 Readers’ Choice Award winners-the EMC CLARiiON CX family of networked storage systems and the EMC Centera™ series of content addressed storage (CAS) platforms.
EMC’s Apex, North Carolina manufacturing facility celebrates 25 years of innovation and commemorates the history and accomplishments of the plant.
IDC ranks EMC as the top content management software vendor based on software market revenue for 2005.
InfoStor magazine and the Association of Storage Networking Professionals (ASNP) names EMC eDiscovery Solution™ winner of the "Compliance and Retention" category for the Most Valuable Product (MVP) awards.
Ricoh recognizes EMC as "Strategic Alliance Partner of the Year" for having the highest revenue contribution and for integrating Captiva solutions.
EMC announces the largest-ever investment in the Indian Information Management and Storage space by doubling current investments and announcing the Centre of Excellence for e-Governance.
EMC acquires ProActivity Software Solutions Ltd., a privately held provider of content management software for business process management. With R&D operations in Netanya, Israel, ProActivity joins recently acquired Kashya and nLayers to form a foundation of EMC R&D in Israel.
Further expanding the company’s resource management portfolio, EMC acquires privately held nLayers, a leader in application discovery and mapping software. The acquisition enhances the EMC Smarts software line’s ability to conduct automated comprehensive root-cause and impact analysis across all technology domains.
Underscoring its commitment to the rapidly growing China marketplace, EMC opens a new software development center in Shanghai—our first China-based research and development facility.
Significantly strengthening and expanding its growing Microsoft practice, EMC acquires Interlink Group, Inc. and Internosis, Inc. Both specialize in solutions for Microsoft environments.
EMC acquires Kashya, a privately held provider of enterprise-class data replication and data protection software.
Redefining its CLARiiON architecture, EMC introduces the EMC CLARiiON UltraScale architecture and CLARiiON CX3 systems. The new CX3 series extends EMC midrange storage leadership with the industry’s best performance, throughput, scalability—and economics.
EMC continues its focus on the small and medium businesses market (SMBs) with the unveiling of the EMC Insignia line of hardware and software, followed by two new fully integrated solutions-the EMC Insignia Solution for Exchange and the EMC Insignia Solution for Data Protection. The company also announces the EMC Velocity2 SMB Partner Program, a worldwide channel program for solution providers serving SMBs.
EMC announces the new entry-level CLARiiON DL210 model for mid-size enterprises and branch offices, with unique backup and recovery integration via EMC NetWorker 7.3 and support for the IBM System i (formerly iSeries) platform.
EMC announces its Managed Services Portfolio to help customers improve storage operations and to meet demanding service levels associated with administering, protecting, and storing information more efficiently.
The EMC CLARiiON AX150 and AX150i networked storage systems, part of the EMC Insignia line, are introduced for SMBs and the distributed enterprise.
EMC unveils the enterprise-class EMC Documentum Archive Services for E-mail and EMC Documentum Archive Services for Reports software. The products equip customers to search and retrieve information for compliance and legal discovery and other business purposes.
EMC introduces the EMC Connectrix ED-10000M backbone director and the EMC Connectrix DS-4900B Fibre Channel SAN switch.
EMC extends its leading IP storage portfolio with new EMC Celerra NS350 and EMC Celerra NS704 systems as well as Smarts IP Availability Manager for NAS—the industry’s first management solution that brings automated root-cause and impact analysis to NAS.
President George W. Bush announces his intention to appoint Joe Tucci, Chairman, President, and CEO of EMC Corporation, as a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
EMC introduces its integrated EMC eDiscovery Solution, designed to help customers better manage the complex and potentially costly legal discovery process.
EMC releases EMC Retrospect 7.5, adding more options-and improved speed, stability, and value-to the award-winning backup and recovery software for SMBs.
EMC announces upgrades to its flagship EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 storage system, making the DMX-3 the world’s first storage array capable of scaling beyond a petabyte of capacity. And with the addition of new low-cost Fibre Channel drives, customers are able to consolidate more information across more applications and storage tiers in a single array-for significantly improved TCO.
Taking IP storage performance to new levels, EMC introduces EMC Celerra Multi-Path File System for iSCSI (MPFSi). The innovative new file-sharing software offers customers greater scaling capabilities and significant performance increases for the most data-intensive environments.
To help customers address regulatory and legal compliance demands, EMC releases new Event-based Retention and Litigation Hold software and security features for EMC Centera content-addressed storage systems (CAS)-which provide users more security, flexibility, and control over archived information.
EMC announces its intent to acquire RSA Security. RSA brings industry-leading identity and access management technologies and encryption and key management software to EMC’s expanding information-centric security portfolio.

2005

Continuing its focus on the content management opportunity, EMC acquires Captiva Software, a leading provider of input management solutions. Captiva’s market-leading products provide capabilities critical to implementing advanced information lifecycle management initiatives.
EMC acquires privately held Rainfinity, adding leading network file virtualization technology to its software portfolio. The acquisition strengthens EMC’s ability to meet customer demands for more comprehensive ILM solutions and better resource management.
EMC extends its CLARiiON line of networked storage systems and software with UltraPoint Technology enabling midrange users to scale with leading availability and reliability features. Also for midrange users: the next-generation CLARiiON Disk Library release provides a simple, faster, and more reliable backup and recovery solution.
In another industry milestone, EMC introduces the Symmetrix DMX-3—the world’s largest, fastest, and most scalable high-end storage array. With the DMX-3, large storage users can consolidate their information onto one high-end platform to ease management burdens and lower costs.
The leader in storage software, EMC extends operations of its software and services organization to Silicon Valley and the East Bay with the opening of training and briefing centers in Santa Clara and Pleasanton, California.
To meet increased demand for ILM services worldwide, EMC expands its Consulting Services organization with practices in the Asia Pacific, Japan, and Latin America.
EMC announces its Invista Network Storage Virtualization Platform solution, which places virtualization intelligence in users’ existing SAN infrastructures. With Invista, enterprises can virtualize storage across multi-tiered, heterogeneous SANs while continuing to use array-based replication and other storage software functionality.
Demonstrating leadership in the enterprise content management (ECM) market, EMC signs on its 50th partner to the EMC Documentum Partner Program-a program to assist ISVs, VSPs, and SIs in optimizing their applications to work with the EMC Documentum ECM platform.
Raising the bar once again for NAS storage, EMC releases the industry’s fastest, most advanced networked attached storage system, the Celerra NSX. The NSX, combined with new software functionality, offers users a complete solution for achieving the benefits of ILM.
EMC ControlCenter passes SNIA Client Conformance Testing Program—reaffirming the company’s commitment to open standards and indicating that the storage management software suite can function in heterogeneous storage environments.
EMC unveils its next-generation ECM platform, solidifying its position as the world leader in enterprise content management software and solutions with a completely unified architecture: the EMC Documentum Content Management Platform.
EMC introduces native iSCSI platforms within its industry-leading CLARiiON networked storage systems line. The addition of the new CLARiiON models produces the broadest set of Fibre Channel and native iSCSI storage networking solutions in the industry, to meet varying needs—from the world’s largest data centers to small and midsize businesses.
Offering greater data protection for small and midsize businesses, distributed enterprises, and home offices, EMC introduces new EMC Dantz Retrospect 7 software releases—making it easy to administer and deliver fast, reliable backups with smart restores.
EMC acquires SMARTS, a privately held technology leader in event automation and real-time network systems management software. The acquisition expands EMC’s lead in information and storage management with SMARTS world-class modeling, correlation, and root cause analysis technology.

2004

EMC celebrates its 25th anniversary, commemorating two and half decades of growth, innovation, and leadership. EMC remains one of the fastest-growing and most successful major information technology providers in the world.
Expanding its reach into the fast-growing small and midsize business (SMB) market, EMC acquires Dantz Development Corporation, a supplier of backup and recovery software for SMBs. Dantz’s advanced technology complements EMC’s line of disk-based backup and recovery solutions.
EMC sets a new industry benchmark for affordable, easy-to-use networked storage with the introduction of the EMC CLARiiON AX100. Based on a unique EMC patent-pending design and technology, the CLARiiON AX100 is a customer-installable networked storage system with integrated functions for simple management and advanced protection.
EMC extends its NetWin family of network attached storage (NAS) products with a low-cost NAS Gateway for Microsoft Windows environments. The EMC NetWin 110 NAS Gateway, based on the Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 platform, is a cost-effective solution for customers looking to implement NAS for the first time or expand the capabilities of a storage area network by enabling it to perform NAS functions as well.
EMC introduces new DMX-2 technology, expanding the Symmetrix DMX Series with up to 30% more performance. Cumulative enhancements to the Symmetrix DMX Series deliver up to twice the performance of the initial Symmetrix DMX Series introduced just 12 months ago.
EMC widens its mid-tier storage lead by introducing its next generation CLARiiON CX300, CX500, and CX700 systems. EMC also announces SAN Copy and SnapView software upgrades enabling increased data mobility and more powerful backup and recovery.
EMC continues its NAS innovation with new gateway and integrated Celerra NS700 models designed to deliver industry-leading flexibility, price/performance, and enhanced functionality. EMC NAS unit growth nears 100% for 2003.
EMC announces that all Symmetrix and Symmetrix DMX systems shipped since 1997 and all CLARiiON and CLARiiON CX systems shipped since 2000 are now capable of being managed by SNIA Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S)-based management software—providing testimony to EMC’s commitment to deliver standards-based products.
With more than 300 partners and resellers enrolled in the EMC Centera Partner Program, the Centera Content-Addressed Storage (CAS) system is the fastest growing storage platform in EMC history and a critical component of EMC’s information lifecycle management offering.
In partnership with Oracle Corporation, EMC unveils a new joint solution to help Oracle customers efficiently migrate inactive database records onto more cost-effective storage using EMC DatabaseXtender family software.
EMC introduces two new EMC Proven solutions for SAP software environments designed to help customers quickly upgrade to the newest versions of SAP software or improve productivity using EMC Replication Manager.
EMC Symmetrix DMX is named "Product of the Year" in Disk and Disk Subsystems and EMC Centera is awarded the bronze for Backup Hardware by STORAGE magazine. EMC is the only company to receive two awards in this competition.
EMC is named the "2003 IT Supplier of the Year" by Bank One for demonstrating the highest level of performance in back-office compliance, service-level agreements, account team and supplier personnel, diversity, satisfaction with products and services, and more.
EMC completes the acquisition of VMware, Inc., a rapidly growing, privately held software company specializing in Intel-based virtual computing software.

2003

EMC introduces the Symmetrix DMX series of information storage systems based on the revolutionary new patented Direct Matrix Architecture. Symmetrix DMX800 becomes the world’s first modular high-end storage system.
EMC introduces the world’s only storage system that supports Fibre Channel and ATA drives simultaneously.
EMC expands into new online capabilities for the EMC ControlCenter family of open management software with the release of EMC SAN Architect.
EMC introduces EMC VisualSRM and EMC VisualSAN-new mid-tier storage management software for small and midsize organizations.
EMC announces SRDF/A, the world’s fastest extended-distance replication software, and EMC Snap, the world’s only high-end, space-saving replication software—driving up performance while cutting the cost of local and remote replication.
EMC acquires Legato Systems, Inc., advancing its Information Lifecycle Management strategy with added capabilities for helping customers intelligently manage all of their information.
EMC acquires Documentum, Inc., further advancing its Information Lifecycle Management strategy—to enable customers to get the maximum value from their information, from creation and collaborative use to archiving and disposal.

2002

EMC introduces Centera, world’s first Content-Addressed Storage (CAS) solution.
General Motors names EMC Supplier of the Year for the third consecutive year for its superior performance in quality, service, technology, and price.
EMC offers open, platform-independent storage consulting services.
EMC introduces the CLARiiON CX series, altering the industry’s mid-tier price/performance curve.
EMC introduces world’s first end-to-end automated storage provisioning solution.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital and EMC establish the EMC Data Center for Information Imaging to develop innovative practices for a fully digital healthcare imaging environment.
EMC’s Mike Ruettgers is inducted into the Information Technology Industry Hall of Fame.
EMC introduces Celerra NS600 network server, combining Celerra’s enterprise NAS features with the high availability and cost advantages of EMC CLARiiON storage systems in one integrated package.

2001

EMC named in Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for in America.
EMC announces executive succession plan. Mike Ruettgers promoted to Executive Chairman, Joe Tucci to President and CEO; Founder Dick Egan becomes Chairman Emeritus.
EMC introduces the CLARiiON FC4700 systems and software.
EMC unveils major new global branding initiative, reinforcing the message that EMC is "where information lives."

2000

EMC introduces Symmetrix 8000 family and CLARiiON FC4500 systems and software.
EMC unveils its E-Infostructure Interoperability Program and opens the world’s largest interoperability lab for storage area networks.
EMC honored with prestigious CIO-100 award for superior customer relationship management.
EMC introduces CLARiiON IP4700 and Celerra with Highroad software.