EMC Fortifies Industry's Premier Portfolio Of Business Continuity Solutions;Delivers Added Assurance Of Uninterrupted Business Operations.

HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 16, 1998--EMC Corporation today announced significant enhancements to its landmark portfolio of business continuity solutions. With the new offerings, EMC brings customers added confidence that they can avoid disastrous business losses and eliminate costly, disruptive data backup windows. The new products also firmly place EMC on the road to increasing software revenue this year by some 125 percent, to $400 million, and sustaining its position as one of the world's largest and fastest growing software providers.

"Today's announcement is further evidence of EMC's lead in assisting customers with a fundamental business process enterprise information management, protection and sharing," said Michael C. Ruettgers, EMC President and CEO. "EMC's core competency is keeping business information accessible so businesses can concentrate on their own core competency - serving customers, making decisions, and generating revenue. Information - in file systems, databases, and data centers - makes up the competitive advantage of every business. Ensuring ongoing and secure access to that information is EMC's business."

EMC delivers these advantages through enhancements to the following Symmetrix Enterprise Storage-based software solutions:(See Fact Sheets for prodncements.

-- Multi-hop mirroring, which uses EMC TimeFinder software to mirror to a third Symmetrix sability to discrete workloads.

-- Remotwhich delivers finer data granularity and suppoData Manager (EDM): The industry's fastest disk-ix Connect; Oracle, Informix,Sybase and UNIX fitection procedure that is right for the enterprGard Recovery Services, said, "As strategic busmmercial recovery facility in 1997 and the largement, Year 2000 and Euro testing, and data ware& Storage Management, at Aberdeen Group, Inc., rix, deliver innovative, high-value solutions timeFinder: Breaking the Mold of Conventional Datndently addressable copies for such activities as backups, data warehouse loading, application development, and Y2K testing. By issuing commands from the host system, these Business Continuity Volumes (BCVs) can be managed separately and used to run simultaneous tasks in parallel.

"In an increasingly competitive global economy, corporation advanced recovery capabilities to a much broader market," said Vic Fricas, senior vice president, Comdisco Continuity Services. "What was once a high-end service, is now a cost-effective solution for customers, regardless of their geographic location. We will continue to work together with EMC to design and test continuity solutions that addrese information is properly, securely and cost-esolutions are an essential component of an openin place - one that allows us to conduct busineof SRDF remains unchanged, starting at $60,000.g market for intelligent enterprise storage systforms. The company has offices worldwide, tradeccessed at http://www.EMC.com.

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