EMC Extends Information Lifecycle Management for Compliance.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 2004

New EMC Proven Solutions, Platform Functionality and Services Help

Customers Manage Information to Meet Regulatory Demands and Address

Compliance Requirements 

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, today announced capabilities that further empower customers to make compliance a seamless part of IT operations through information lifecycle management (ILM). The new EMC Proven(TM) Solutions for e-mail and content archiving and retrieval, new platform functionality for compliance-related data management, and enhanced services for data classification will help customers extract the maximum value from their information at the lowest total cost while meeting regulatory demands and achieving compliance.

Corporate governance, legal requirements and government regulations are forcing IT organizations to re-evaluate their information management strategies. These organizations need to create and implement policies for data integrity, authentication, legal discovery and retrieval. EMC offers the industry's broadest family of tiered storage platforms, software, services and solutions. These solutions address regulatory compliance by helping customers to manage information at every point in the information lifecycle, from content creation, use and retention to final disposition. By enhancing IT capabilities for compliance, EMC helps customers increase the efficiency of their compliance efforts, lower costs and meet changing business needs in an evolving regulatory environment.

Peter Gerr, Senior Analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group, said, "EMC's Proven Solutions and services for compliance create an actionable IT agenda that allows customers to manage compliance related data such as e-mail and bank statements the same way they manage transactional data. By automating and better managing information throughout its lifecycle, companies are able to address compliance requirements, but also can reduce costs of information protection, management, and retrieval by consolidating their existing stove-piped compliance and archiving operations."

Today, EMC extends its broad suite of technology solutions and services for regulatory compliance while providing greater simplicity and choice for customers. These new solutions and services include (see separate releases):

    EMC Proven Content Archiving and Retrieval Solutions (CARS)
    automate regulatory compliance by centralizing online document and
    records management with an integrated solution to capture, store
    and rapidly retrieve content in any format from any source. EMC
    CARS with Documentum enables customers to manage the content
    lifecycle for compliance. EMC CARS with Mobius enables customers
    to transform and archive bills, statements, check images and other
    content, including mainframe generated content, in compliance with
    regulations.

    EMC Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving optimizes placement of
    e-mail, helping organizations address cost and compliance
    objectives-- from faster upgrades and better user experiences to
    the most stringent regulations. The EMC Proven Solution tightly
    integrates the LEGATO EmailXtender(R) e-mail archiving application
    with EMC's tiered storage and services to archive e-mail content
    from Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes.

    EMC Centera(TM) CAS (content addressed storage) offers new
    retention classes, audited delete and configurable default
    retention period compliance functionality with its latest
    operating environment release, CentraStar v2.3. These enhancements
    deliver enhanced performance and manageability functions, allowing
    customers to meet their online fixed content archiving demands,
    further extending Centera's market lead in this category.

    EMC Technology Solutions group offers Data Classification Services
    to help customers create an ILM strategy by defining a tiered
    storage architecture that aligns business requirements to
    architecture, data policies and service levels. Data Migration
    Services from EMC and its partners provide unmatched experience,
    methodologies and tools to help customers move their information
    to a more effective and productive architecture while minimizing
    risk and accelerating business benefit.

Addressing more than 500 customers here in New York, David Goulden, EMC's Executive Vice President of Customer Operations, said, "As compliance requirements proliferate, organizations demand flexible solutions to help them comply with current requirements and adapt to new and evolving ones. EMC can help these organizations comply with these regulations because it has extensive experience with compliance issues and the broadest and deepest set of offerings and partnerships in the industry. Today, EMC Proven Solutions for compliance help customers implement ILM to address regulatory, corporate governance and legal demands. Customers can manage and store information from its creation to disposition, setting the appropriate retention periods along the way."

CareGroup, a system of world-renowned academic medical centers and outstanding community hospitals in Massachusetts, is dedicated to providing the best-quality care and services to patients in a highly personalized manner. John Halamka, CareGroup's Chief Information Officer, said, "To meet regulatory requirements, we're required to keep our medical records for nine million patients for up to 30 years. As the foundation of our information lifecycle management strategy, EMC's extensive storage, software and services lets us keep our mission-critical patient information on high-performance, highly available storage for real-time access, and our less-critical data on a reliable, lower-cost mid-tier system. This not only ensures regulatory compliance, but also enables us to continue providing superior-quality patient care."

On Tuesday, June 8, 2004, at 11:00 a.m. EST, hear how leading regulatory compliance consultant Kahn Consulting and EMC are enabling organizations to address e-mail archiving and records management issues during an EMC Live webcast. To register, visit: www.seeuthere.com/emclive.

About EMC Proven Solutions

EMC Proven Solutions enable organizations to address their most pressing business challenges while lowering costs and improving service levels throughout the information lifecycle. Backed by stringent testing, seamless partner integration and documented implementation methodologies, EMC Proven Solutions reduce complexity and ensure faster deployment for customers.

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 and LEGATO EmailExtender are registered trademarks, and Centera and EMC Proven are trademarks of EMC Corporation. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

EMC's customers are responsible for ensuring their own compliance with legal requirements. It is the customer's sole responsibility to obtain advice of competent legal counsel as to the identification and interpretation of any relevant laws and regulatory requirements that may affect the customer's business and any actions the customer may need to take to comply with such laws. EMC does not provide legal advice or represent or warrant that its services or products will ensure that the customer is in compliance with any law.

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) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iii) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer acceptance of new product offerings, and rapid technological and market change; (iv) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (v) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures; (vi) component quality and availability; (vii) the relative and varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and mixture of product and services revenues; (viii) war or acts of terrorism; (ix) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (x) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xi) risks associated with strategic investments and acquisitions; 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.