EMC Launches E-Mail Archiving Solution for Compliance.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

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

Extends Leadership in Comprehensive Compliance Offerings by

Combining EMC Tiered Storage, LEGATO EmailXtender, EmailXaminer and

EMC Services in a Proven Solution

EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, today announced the EMC Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving, uniting leading e-mail archiving functionality from its LEGATO Software division with the industry's most comprehensive lineup of tiered storage platforms. The solution addresses the business and regulatory requirements for e-mail compliance.

This EMC Proven Solution provides a unique three-tiered value proposition for customers. The e-mail archiving expertise of LEGATO Software and the tiered storage expertise, assessment and implementation of EMC combine in one solution for accelerated results. Backed by stringent testing, seamless partner integration and documented implementation methodologies, EMC Proven Solutions reduce customer risk and ensure faster deployment. Organizations can address their most pressing business challenges while lowering costs and improving service levels throughout the information lifecycle with EMC Proven Solutions.

Mike Karp, senior analyst with Enterprise Management Associates said, "Regulatory compliance is now one of the biggest business drivers in deploying e-mail archiving solutions. Failing to comply with regulations can have severe, negative impacts on an organization, costing them thousands - if not millions of dollars in fines. Organizations that adopt and embrace email archiving solutions sooner than later will have a greater chance of avoiding legal or regulatory liabilities, enabling them to focus on driving their business goals, rather than putting out potential fires."

The EMC Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving leverages the functionality of LEGATO EmailXtender to archive and retrieve e-mail and attachments from Microsoft Exchange and Lotus environments. With EMC's tiered storage offering, users can select the right hardware platform to address their defined cost and compliance objectives. For example, the solution uses EMC Centera Compliance Edition Series for guaranteed content authenticity and retention when strict regulatory compliance is required.

With this solution, customers can apply centrally-defined e-mail archiving policies to:

-- Enhance e-mail retention efficiency

-- Comply with e-mail retention requirements and regulations to

preserve corporate records

-- Deploy complete e-mail management with assured authenticity

and easy accessibility to the archived messages

-- Increase end-user productivity by reducing time spent managing

e-mail folders

-- Accelerate Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes software

upgrades and migrations by archiving e-mail in advance

EMC also announced today that Adirondack Electronics Markets (AEM), a privately held market maker on the International Securities Exchange, implemented the EMC Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving to help them comply with e-mail retention and supervision requirements of the SEC and NASD. (see separate release)

Don Swatik, EMC Vice President, Global Solutions said, "More and more organizations are hard-pressed to demonstrate compliance with regulations for retention of documents like e-mail. Our Proven Solution for E-mail Archiving provides customers with an end-to-end solution that helps them worry less about regulations and more about driving their businesses. This announcement further demonstrates EMC's commitment to driving customer-focused, integrated solutions from its acquisition of LEGATO Software."

LEGATO EmailXtender is a centralized data storage and retrieval system that makes enterprise e-mail easier to administer and use. It automatically moves data off the e-mail message server and into the storage system, capturing and indexing all incoming and outgoing e-mails.

When LEGATO EmailXtender is combined with EMC's tiered networked storage, organizations can achieve increased operational efficiencies for day-to-day e-mail management and version upgrades and migrations using cost-effective storage platforms such as EMC NetWin network attached storage (NAS) or EMC CLARiiON CX with ATA. For fixed content archiving, corporate governance and regulated storage environments, EMC Centera, the world's first content addressed storage (CAS) system, provides unique self-healing and authentication features.

About LEGATO Software

LEGATO Software, a division of EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), is a global provider of open, enterprise-class software solutions and services for information management - helping organizations simplify management and control of information and enable business continuity and compliance at the lowest TCO. LEGATO's information protection, automated availability and messaging management solutions are delivered through a worldwide network of strategic partnerships and alliances as well as a direct sales force. The division's headquarters are located at 2350 West El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040; [phone]; fax: [phone]; Web site: www.legato.com

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, LEGATO and EmailXtender 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.