With 48,500 employees serving customers in over 80 countries around the world, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. At its core, EMC is a technology company. EMC develops, delivers and supports the Information Technology industry's broadest range of information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions and services. The combination of our products and services is the foundation that enables the information and applications all organizations depend upon to be effective, agile and successful.
EMC's mission is to lead people and organizations on a safe and swift journey from traditional data center infrastructure to the next generation of IT: cloud computing, also known as IT-as-a-Service. Cloud computing offers a dramatically more efficient and effective computing model that helps transform IT from a cost center to a value driver. We support a broad range of customers around the world, in every major industry, in the public and private sectors, and of every size ranging from the Fortune Global 500 to small- and medium-sized businesses and individual consumers.
We conduct our business globally and manage it in two broad categories. EMC Information Infrastructure provides a foundation for organizations to store, manage, protect, analyze and secure their vast and ever-increasing quantities of information, improve business agility, lower cost of ownership and enhance their competitive advantage within traditional data centers, virtual data centers and cloud-based IT infrastructures. VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which is represented by EMC's majority equity stake in VMware, Inc., is the leading provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure software solutions.
The platform for change in the IT industry has arrived with the biggest opportunity residing at the intersection of trusted cloud computing and Big Data. Equipped with the strongest, most distinctive product and services portfolio and strategic partners in company history, EMC is well positioned to lead this transformational shift. Our cloud computing strategy supports all types of customers including global businesses, governments, large enterprise customers, commercial businesses and individual consumers. Facing excessive IT complexity and relentlessly-growing information, many organizations have had to spend roughly two-thirds of their IT budgets on maintaining their infrastructure and applications, and only about one-third of their IT budgets on advances that can make them more competitive. By enabling IT to be delivered as a cost-effective service, cloud computing helps organizations alter this ratio, allowing more of an enterprise's focus and investment to be directed toward innovation. CIO surveys consistently show more and more companies want to gain the economics, flexibility, security and compliance that a cloud infrastructure can provide.
Cloud architectures break the ties between the user's applications and the need for the user's organizations to maintain physical servers and storage systems on which they run. Instead, applications tap into aggregated resources – from server to network to storage – when needed and, thus, achieve shared efficiency and agility. This cloud model is made possible by the advent of server virtualization and sophisticated automation technologies. Cloud infrastructure can be implemented as a private cloud (internal IT resources controlled and managed by the IT organization), public cloud (IT resources shared by multiple clients) or hybrid cloud (a combination of private cloud and public cloud where resources move between the IT-owned data center and a trusted service provider). EMC's vision is to be the undisputed leader in enabling hybrid cloud computing through infrastructure and application transformation.
Organizations' cloud infrastructure requirements are as varied as the companies themselves. This is why it is so important for their cloud infrastructure vendor to have a broad and deep range of products and services. As each organization determines the benefit of migrating to a cloud infrastructure, EMC can meet their needs through every phase from initial assessment to design, delivery and implementation. We are well positioned to provide fully-virtualized, next-generation architectures enabling complete control over data and applications and faster and higher return on investment – from strategy to technology and a complete ecosystem of partners, systems integrators and service providers.
Whether organizations are expanding their traditional data centers, embracing a virtual data center or broader cloud computing and IT-as-a-Service models, EMC's extensive portfolio of information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, products and services provide the highest levels of efficiency, choice and control.
EMC's Information Infrastructure products, solutions and services help organizations store, manage, protect, analyze, secure and maximize the value of their vast and ever-increasing quantities of information in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. EMC's technology expertise and broad set of high-performance and high-availability data storage, protection, security, information management and intelligence, and data computing systems, software and services help organizations capture and manage information to improve business agility, lower cost of ownership and enhance their competitive advantage within traditional data centers, virtual data centers and cloud-based IT infrastructures. Our Information Infrastructure portfolio comprises three segments – Information Storage, RSA Information Security and Information Intelligence Group.
EMC offers the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of enterprise storage systems and software – scaling from entry-level to datacenter-class systems – supporting organizations' information storage, back-up and recovery, and management strategies. As the foundation of an information infrastructure within traditional data centers, virtual data centers and cloud-based IT infrastructures, EMC storage systems can be deployed in storage area networks (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), unified storage combining NAS and SAN, object storage, content addressed storage and/or direct attached storage environments.
In 2010, EMC introduced groundbreaking enterprise storage innovations, features and capabilities that help customers build and optimize virtualized data centers that deliver new levels of efficiency, control and choice for customers. All of EMC storage arrays are standardized on the latest Intel processor technology designed to consume less energy than alternative solutions and optimized for virtual environments. Through deep knowledge of VMware technology, EMC now has more than 70 different integration points between EMC and VMware products. This is a key competitive differentiator for EMC in helping customers realize the full potential of cloud computing and IT-as-a-Service.
EMC entered 2011 with a brand new unified storage platform – the EMC VNX family – offering breakthrough simplicity, efficiency, affordability and power. The VNX family consolidates the industry-leading features and functionality of EMC CLARiiON and EMC Celerra into a single, powerful family of unified storage arrays that scale from entry-level to datacenter-class systems. The VNXe series is designed specifically for small- and medium-sized businesses, department level storage solutions for enterprise, and remote or branch offices, combining breakthrough simplicity with advanced performance, availability and efficiency benefits. EMC continues to lead the market with new technologies that simplify and efficiently manage enterprise storage arrays, helping customers exploit the benefits of solid state disk (SSD) technology.
2010 was a year of innovation for EMC leading up to the introduction of the VNX family. During that time, EMC made significant advancements to the EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) suite and EMC Fast Cache software, which collectively offer the most powerful automated storage tiering for performance optimization and dramatic cost efficiencies to customers of all sizes. EMC also introduced new levels of midrange storage efficiency and simplicity with EMC Unisphere, a new management interface for EMC CLARiiON, EMC Celerra and the new EMC VNX family.
In 2010, EMC also introduced EMC VPLEX, a new storage platform that will enable organizations to move thousands of virtual machines and petabytes of information non-disruptively over thousands of miles, schedule daily batch processes in locations with lower energy costs, easily shift IT operations away from regional disasters and dynamically balance workloads as the business day progresses around the globe.
Central to its mission to help organizations migrate to next-generation disk-based backup and recovery systems, in 2010, EMC further strengthened its fast-growing Backup Recovery Systems Division, which houses its EMC NetWorker and EMC Disk Library products, as well as its two industry-leading data deduplication product lines: EMC Avamar deduplication backup software and EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems. During 2010, EMC's focus was on both the integration of the company's backup and recovery products with each other and massively scaling these solutions to help organizations stay ahead of explosive data growth levels. In addition, to further enhance its deduplication storage system offerings for the mainframe backup market, in 2010, EMC acquired Bus-Tech, Inc., a leading provider of mainframe virtual tape libraries and connectivity solutions. By introducing high levels of automation, advanced replication capabilities and the ability to protect virtual machines and virtualized server environments, EMC's disk-based backup and recovery products provide a critical function for both existing IT environments and cloud-based computing initiatives.
In 2010, EMC positioned itself as a leading player in "Big Data" clouds and self-service analytics. The company completed its acquisition of data warehousing and business analytics pioneer Greenplum, Inc., formed the new EMC Data Computing Products Division and introduced the new EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance (DCA). Additionally in 2010, EMC completed the acquisition of Isilon Systems, Inc., a leader in the fast-growing "scale-out" network attached storage market segment.
"Big Data" refers to data that due to its scale, distribution or location in separate silos, or need for timely access requires organizations to employ new IT architectures to capture, store, integrate and rapidly analyze it in order to realize business value. Big Data differs from the transactional and small file data and applications that have traditionally characterized organization's data centers. It tends to be more sequential, less transactional and bigger, generally measured in petabytes versus terabytes. The new architectures it necessitates are supported by new tools, processes and procedures that enable organizations to create, manipulate and manage these very large data sets and the storage environments that house them.
With investments that EMC has made through the acquisitions of Greenplum and Isilon, as well as the EMC Atmos cloud infrastructure platform, the company is squarely positioned to help organizations meet petabyte-scale big data and self-service analytics requirements in their traditional data centers and cloud infrastructure environments – and unlock the value inherent in massive amounts of data.
EMC Global Services provides the strategic guidance and technology expertise organizations need to address their business and information infrastructure challenges, derive maximum value from their information assets and investments and help speed their transition to cloud computing. With more than 14,000 professional- and support-service experts worldwide, plus a global network of alliances and partners, EMC Global Services leverages proven methodologies, industry best practices, experience and a knowledge base derived from EMC's broad practices to help organizations reduce risk, lower costs and speed time-to-value. End-to-end services capabilities address the full spectrum of customer needs across the information lifecycle: strategize, advise, design, implement, manage and support in physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. Among the offerings provided by EMC Global Services are consulting services, technology deployment, managed services, customer support services and training and certification.
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, delivers products, packaged solutions and services designed to safeguard the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle, no matter where it moves, who accesses it or how it is used. RSA offers solutions in identity assurance and access control, data loss prevention, encryption and key management, enterprise governance, risk and compliance, security information management and fraud protection. These technologies enable organizations to discover, classify and place appropriate controls around their data, secure access to the data both inside and outside the network as well as across physical, virtual or cloud infrastructures, and monitor and enforce these measures to prove compliance with security policies and regulations.
EMC's Information Intelligence Group provides software and services for enterprise capture, information access, customer communications, case management and governance to help organizations get maximum leverage from their information. This segment consists of three key product areas: Information Governance, Documentum xCP and Information Access. Information Governance products help organizations reduce operational costs, simplify e-discovery and mitigate risks. This includes EMC SourceOne for archiving, e-discovery and visibility across multiple content types such as e-mail, SharePoint and files; and Documentum Records Management for record retention and management of physical, e-mail and electronic documents across multiple systems. Documentum xCP is a platform for case management solutions that provides fully-integrated technologies, development and deployment tools as well as application accelerators enabling organizations to build intelligent case-based applications substantially faster, at a much lower cost and with fewer resources. xCP can be used across industries such as in insurance for claims management and policy management; in healthcare for virtual patient records and claims processing; in financial services for loan operations, dispute resolution and wealth management; and in the public sector for grants management, unemployment benefits and welfare services. Information Access products, which consists of EMC Captiva, EMC Document Sciences, EMC My Documentum, EMC Documentum CenterStage, ApplicationXtender and EMC Documentum Web Experience Management, deliver intuitive methods of locating, sharing and managing all types of information so they are available to the right people according to their preferred user experience.
VMware is the leading provider of virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions. Its virtualization solutions represent a pioneering approach to computing that separates application software from the underlying hardware to achieve significant improvements in efficiency, availability, flexibility and manageability. VMware's broad and proven suite of virtualization solutions provides cloud infrastructure designed to optimize data centers; a cloud application platform that provides scalable application development for efficient use of hybrid (public and private) cloud-based resources; end-user computing solutions designed to provide consistent user interface across a variety of desktop and mobile computing platforms; and IT business management products designed to automate management of virtual, physical and cloud environments.
VMware's solutions enable organizations to aggregate multiple servers, storage infrastructure and networks together into shared pools of capacity that can be allocated dynamically, securely and reliably to applications as needed, increasing hardware utilization and reducing spending per unit of information processed. Since introducing its first virtualization platform, VMware has expanded its product offerings to address distributed and heterogeneous infrastructure challenges such as planned and unplanned downtime management, system recoverability and reliability, backup and recovery, resource provisioning and management, capacity and performance management, security, and virtual desktop management.
EMC has technology alliances with leading software, networking and services companies and service providers. Our strategy is to work closely with these and other companies to provide added value to our customers by integrating our solutions with software and networking applications that customers rely on to manage their day-to-day business operations.
In 2010, Cisco and EMC further expanded and strengthened VCE Company LLC ("VCE"). VCE, or the virtual computing environment company, formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, represents an unprecedented level of collaboration in development, services and partner enablement by four established market and technology leaders. VCE accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that significantly reduce the cost of IT while improving time to market for our customers. VCE, through Vblock platforms, delivers the industry's first completely integrated IT offering that combines best-of-breed network, compute, storage, management, security and virtualization technologies with end-to-end vendor accountability. VCE's prepackaged solutions cover horizontal applications, such as unified communications and analytics; vertical industry offerings, such as electronic health record management and HIPAA compliance; and application development environments for deployments, such as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and SAP, allowing organizations to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating and managing IT infrastructure.
VCE provides the fastest, most efficient and effective path to pervasive virtualization and cloud computing, available to organizations through a large and growing network of value added resellers, systems integrators and service provider partners. To date, more than 100 partners in 29 countries are selling Vblock to a growing, diverse global customer base. VCE continues to innovate with the goal of providing market-leading simplicity, flexibility and efficiency.
Finally, VMware works closely with more than 1,700 technology partners, including leading server, microprocessor, storage, networking and software vendors as well as service providers.
Today, we employ more than 48,500 people worldwide, more than 40 percent of whom work outside the U.S. We are represented by approximately 400 sales offices and scores of partners in more than 80 countries around the world. We have the world's largest sales and service force focused on information infrastructure.
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. EMC was named to Newsweek’s 2009 list of “The Greenest Big Companies in America.” And FORTUNE magazine included EMC in its 2010 list of “World’s Most Admired Companies.”
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