EMC launches new generation of industry-leading Symmetrix Systems.

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 1997--

Introduction Includes World's Fastest and World's Largest-Capacity

Storage Systems; Platform-Independent Technology Advances The

Standard for Enterprise Storage

EMC Corporation today introduced a new generation of its Symmetrix Integrated Cached Disk Array (ICDA) systems, further extending its lead in the burgeoning worldwide market for enterprise information storage and retrieval technology.

Unveiled at a major news conference here today, the six new Symmetrix models include the world's fastest and the world's largest-capacity intelligent storage systems -- with up to 200% faster performance than competitors' products and up to a record three terabytes of capacity in a single storage system. The products underscore EMC's role in helping customers move information to the strategic center of their technology operations, and will serve as the industry's premier platform for implementing the next wave of intelligent information management tools to store, retrieve, share and protect critical information assets.

Phil Orton, Director of Centralized Operations for Entergy Corporation, the fifth-largest provider of electric utility power in the U.S., said, "Our organization is very diverse, with data located behind a variety of different operating systems -- Windows NT, UNIX, MVS. The key thing we're trying to do is pool that data together from all sources and create information out of it. EMC is by far the leader in helping us achieve this business direction in storage. To my knowledge, and we researched the market a great deal, no one even comes close to EMC in being able to help us develop this new information architecture. Enterprise storage is finally becoming a reality rather than just a part of our imagination."

David Vellante, Senior Vice President at International Data Corporation (IDC), said, "The new Symmetrix systems increase EMC's performance lead over the competition. Some will wonder how anyone can use all the performance of Symmetrix. But if you talk to the companies in heavily transaction-oriented environments, business is based on how fast they can execute transactions. The new Symmetrix systems play a crucial role in helping those companies increase revenues and meet their overall business objectives."

Entergy's Orton added, "Symmetrix products are absolutely outstanding in terms of the way they compare to other storage systems on the market. They have better software and better overall performance. To my knowledge, no other supplier produces products of equal performance characteristics. EMC's new Symmetrix systems appear to be even better in performance than the existing Symmetrix technology, which is absolutely excellent."

Michael C. Ruettgers, EMC President and CEO, said, "Since its introduction in 1991, Symmetrix has become the most successful product in the history of online storage systems, captured worldwide market share leadership in both mainframe and open systems disk storage, and helped EMC increase revenues by more than tenfold. Today we are once again raising the standards against which all intelligent storage systems will be measured."

"These new systems provide a foundation for the next wave of enterprise storage capabilities based on our Intelligent Storage Architecture (ISA)," continued Ruettgers. "EMC's Symmetrix technology continues to define enterprise storage by eliminating the need to maintain separate storage strategies for each type of platform and by ensuring a consistent level of data availability, protection, performance and scalability for all of an organization's critical information, regardless of the underlying computer systems. This approach is enabling our customers to build the path to universal information sharing and management across their enterprises."

"EMC remains the only vendor providing mainframe-class consolidated storage for both open systems and mainframe platforms," Ruettgers concluded. "As a result of the rapid market acceptance of these capabilities, past distinctions between various segments of the storage market based on CPU classifications are quickly giving way to a single market for enterprise storage solutions."

The new products introduced by EMC today include:

Symmetrix 3430 and Symmetrix 5430 for open systems, mainframe and mixed-platform environments, the world's fastest-performing intelligent storage systems for mission-critical applications, utilizing the most advanced and most reliable 3.5" 9GB disk drives available and offering up to 868 gigabytes of capacity per system

Symmetrix 3700 and Symmetrix 5700 for open systems, mainframe and mixed-platform environments, offering high performance and record-breaking capacity of almost three terabytes (2,954 gigabytes) in a single system, becoming the first systems to utilize new 5.25" 23GB disk drives

Symmetrix 3330 and Symmetrix 5330 for open systems, mainframe and mixed-platform environments, offering the highest-performance, scalable entry-level systems available, also utilizing 3.5" 9GB disk drives and offering up to 289 gigabytes of capacity per system

Based on EMC's long-standing MOSAIC:2000 architecture, all six new Symmetrix systems deliver enhanced value to customers through the same Symmetrix software they already rely on to run their businesses. All Symmetrix systems support simultaneous storage for mixed mainframe and open systems environments through EMC's Symmetrix Enterprise Storage Platform (ESP) software and all offer the highest level of data protection available -- Disaster Tolerant Disk Systems Plus (DTDS+) -- as classified by the RAID Advisory Board. EMC is the first company to achieve this highest level of classification (see separate release.)

The new Symmetrix systems are available for order immediately and, depending on model, are shipping either immediately or within 30 days. U.S. list prices for fully configured systems range from $260,000 for an entry level Symmetrix 3330 to $3,400,000 for a fully loaded Symmetrix 5700.

EMC Corporation, based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, is the world's leading provider of enterprise-wide intelligent information storage and retrieval technology, designing systems for mainframe, open systems and midrange environments. The company has offices worldwide, trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EMC and is a member of the S&P 500 Index. For further information about EMC products and services, EMC's home page can be accessed at http://www.emc.com . -0-

This release contains new product announcements that are "forward-looking statements" under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could vary materially and there can be no assurance that these plans will be achieved. Factors that could cause actual results to vary materially include, but are not limited to: changes in business conditions, changes in EMC's sales strategy and product development plans, changes in the data storage marketplace, competition between EMC and other companies that are currently in the data storage market, or competition between EMC and other companies that may be entering the data storage market, competitive pricing pressures, continued market acceptance of EMC's mainframe and open systems products, delays in the development of new technology, changes in customer buying patterns, one-time events and other important factors disclosed previously and from time to time in EMC's filings at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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