is a manufacturer of software and systems for information management and storage. it is headquartered in
Hopkinton, Massachusetts . EMC produces a range of
Enterprise Storage products, including hardware
Disk Array s and storage management software. Its flagship product, the
Symmetrix , is the foundation of
Storage Networks in many large data centers. The
CLARiiON line was acquired with
Data General .
In
2002 , EMC acquired Prisa Networks for its
Storage Area Network (SAN) management
VisualSAN product. In
2003 , EMC announced that it purchased
Documentum and
Legato Corporation and
VMware . Continuing its acquisitive streak, EMC announced the purchase of network management software company
System Management Arts , Inc., also known as SMARTS. Recently, EMC has been doing a lot of work in the area of
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).
Through an acquisition of a Belgian software company called FilePool, EMC developed a data-archiving product called Centera. This content addressed storage platform addressed archiving-specific needs of ILM in rapidly changing technical environments.
EMC began in
1979 , founded by
Richard (Dick) Egan and
Roger Marino . Originally a manufacturer of memory boards, (and before that, selling computer furniture) EMC quickly began expanding beyond memory to disk drives. Spurred on by the brainpower of Moshe Yanai, EMC quickly grew to the top with innovative and large storage platforms. The company has been transitioning from a purely hardware driven company to a healthy mix of hardware/software/professional services. The big push for the future comes from its virtualization products which include VMware, Invista, and Rainfinity.
A series of acquisitions helped grow EMC to the number one spot of data storage platforms in the world.
The founders of EMC are Richard Egan and Roger Marino, the "E" and "M" behind the naming of EMC. "EMC Corporation" is the Company's full name. The C^2 actually refers to the other two founders who quit shortly after the formation of the company.
