EMC Executes Most Comprehensive Storage Platforms Launch Ever; Simultaneously Launches New Symmetrix DMX, CLARiiON, Celerra and Centera Models.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 9, 2004

Helps Customers Maximize the Value of Information

Across its Lifecycle

EMC Corporation today delivered a wave of major new systems and software innovations across the entire lineup of EMC tiered storage platforms spanning high-end, mid-tier, network attached storage (NAS) and content addressed storage (CAS). The simultaneous launch of new Symmetrix(R) DMX(TM), CLARiiON(R) CX, Celerra(R) and Centera(TM) systems and software represent EMC's most extensive storage platforms launch in its history. With today's announcement, EMC continues to demonstrate its ability to do more with storage - enabling customers to reduce costs, and better protect and derive increasing value from their information throughout its entire lifecycle.

Today's announcements showcase the full breadth and depth of EMC's capabilities across the industry's widest range of storage platforms. They include (see separate releases):

-- Symmetrix DMX-2 - Symmetrix DMX systems equipped with the new

DMX-2 technology offer up to 30% more performance than

identically configured Symmetrix DMX systems using the

current-generation directors. Cumulative enhancements to the

Symmetrix DMX Series deliver up to twice the performance of

the initial Symmetrix DMX Series introduced just 12 months

ago, representing the industry's highest level of storage

system performance. The new high-end DMX-2 technology is

available as Symmetrix DMX-2 models as well as data-in-place

upgrades to existing Symmetrix DMX systems.

-- CLARiiON CX - The entire new line of next-generation CLARiiON

CX300, CX500 and CX700 systems offers customers higher

performance at the same price as previous models and new,

affordable replication options while maintaining superior

investment protection capabilities. The systems are available

as new models or as data-in-place upgrades to existing

CLARiiON CX systems.

-- Celerra NAS Gateways and Integrated Systems - expand the

world's broadest NAS product family with new models and

enhancements that capitalize on the industry trend towards

gateway-based NAS deployments.

-- Celerra NS700G delivers industry-leading price/performance

while supporting flexible, tiered storage options.

-- Celerra NS700 integrated NAS system leads the industry for

integrated system price/performance, while enabling

migration to a gateway configuration.

-- Celerra CNS 514 Data Mover delivers 56% better performance

than its predecessor.

-- Centera- New native mainframe connectivity for Centera content

addressed storage further unlocks the tremendous value of

fixed-content digital assets stored in mainframe environments.

New Centera platform enhancements also announced today enable

customers to benefit from up to five times the performance and

double the data replication speeds over previous models.

EMC also announced a range of new platform-based software functionality as well as a major milestone in its ongoing commitment to the development of standards-based products for open, interoperable and automated networked storage environments. EMC Symmetrix and Symmetrix DMX systems shipped since 1997 and all EMC 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.

Joe Tucci, EMC President and CEO, said, "As sweeping change continues across the storage industry, EMC has kept a laser focus on tiered storage platforms - a key foundation of information lifecycle management. Today's announcement demonstrates this focus and showcases the industry's broadest and most capable lineup of tiered storage offerings. EMC is helping customers manage their information through the widest range of best-of-breed storage offerings."

David Donatelli, EMC Executive Vice President of Storage Platforms Operations, said, "EMC has continued to do more than anyone to improve, enhance and innovate tiered storage platforms. Today's announcement delivers on EMC's commitment to offer rapid product cycles, in many cases before our competitors have responded to our current generation. While each product is best-of-breed in its class, customers get the added value of an entirely integrated family, complete backward compatibility and data-in-place upgrades."

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in products, services and solutions for information storage and management that help organizations extract the maximum value from their information, at the lowest total cost, across every point in the information lifecycle. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com.

EMC, Celerra, CLARiiON and Symmetrix are registered trademarks, and Centera is a trademark of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) risks associated with strategic investments and acquisitions, including the challenges and costs of integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies associated with the acquisitions of LEGATO Systems, Inc., Documentum, Inc. and VMware, Inc.; (ii) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (iii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iv) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings, and rapid technological and market change; (v) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (vi) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures; (vii) component quality and availability; (viii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (ix) war or acts of terrorism; (x) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xi) fluctuating currency exchange rates; and (xii) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.