EMC Appoints Paul Noble Executive Vice President, Products and Offerings.

HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 1998--EMC Corporation, the world's leading provider of enterprise storage systems and software, today announced the appointment of Paul E. Noble, Jr., to the position of Executive Vice President, Products and Offerings. Noble, a 17-year EMC veteran, will be responsible for EMC's worldwide engineering, manufacturing, product management, product support, and corporate quality programs.

Michael C. Ruettgers, EMC President and CEO, said, "Paul brings a strong track record of achievement in several areas of EMC's business. His appointment occurs at a time when experienced leadership will be important in helping us build on our substantial technology lead and manage the operational challenges inherent in an environment of rapid growth and record demand for EMC Enterprise Storage hardware and software." Noble, 42, succeeds John R. Egan, who has chosen to leave his full-time role at EMC after 15 years with the company. Egan will remain a member of EMC's Board of Directors.

"Jack Egan has made many important contributions to the growth and success of EMC, in a number of senior management roles over the years," said Ruettgers. "Since assuming leadership of the Products and Offerings organization in the spring of 1997, Jack helped set the infrastructure in place for the next phase of EMC's growth, completing the doubling of our worldwide manufacturing capacity ahead of schedule and building on our time-to-market lead in delivering enterprise storage solutions to our worldwide customers. We wish Jack well in his future pursuits and look forward to his continued involvement with EMC."

Noble was named Senior Vice President, Business Development, in January 1998, and was responsible for the acquisition and integration of Groupe MCI, a French professional services company, and Conley Corporation, a Massachusetts-based storage management software firm. Prior to this assignment, Noble served as Vice President and General Manager of OEM sales, where he initiated and managed OEM and reseller relationships with some of the world's leading computer companies. Noble joined EMC in 1981, two years after the company was founded, and has served in key management positions in sales operations, customer service and product marketing. He holds an MBA from Northeastern University.

EMC Corporation, a Fortune 500 company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is the world's technology and market leader in the rapidly growing market for intelligent enterprise storage systems, software and services. The company's products store, retrieve, manage, protect and share information from all major computing environments, including UNIX, Windows NT and mainframe platforms. The company has offices worldwide, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC, and is a component of the S&P 500 Index. For further information about EMC and its storage solutions, EMC's corporate Web site can be accessed at http://www.EMC.com.