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EMC Acquires FastScale Technology, Optimizes Application Image Management to
Dramatically Increase Performance and Scalability of Private Clouds
Expands EMC Ionix with Next Generation Data Center Provisioning that
Simplifies Deployment and Maximizes Virtual Machine Density

HOPKINTON, Mass., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has
acquired FastScale Technology, Inc., a privately-held, Santa Clara,
California-based provider of software platforms and solutions for next
generation enterprise IT -- adding a new dimension to the EMC Ionix portfolio
to dramatically increase the performance and scalability of private cloud
infrastructures. Designed from the ground up to accelerate the journey from
physical to virtual to private cloud, with the addition of FastScale, the EMC
Ionix portfolio will simplify end-to-end management and maximize the
performance, density and efficiency of applications and software deployed on
unified infrastructures. The transaction is not expected to have a material
impact to revenue or EPS for the full 2009 fiscal year.

The acquisition of FastScale extends EMC's powerful EMC Ionix solutions for
automating IT management across a unified infrastructure of storage, compute,
network and virtualization resources, enabling customers to accelerate their
transition from a physical to a virtualized data center to the private cloud
and to maximize the value of their new enterprise IT architectures.

Leapfrogging traditional software provisioning and management approaches which
focus purely on administrative gains, FastScale's technology simplifies
application and server stack management and optimizes deployment for physical,
virtual and cloud infrastructures, providing significant footprint benefits
that allow data centers to run up to three times more virtual machines without
degrading performance. In addition FastScale's technology decreases memory and
disk usage by up to 75%, enabling some of the highest levels of tier-one
application performance in the private cloud.

Today's announcement comes on the heels of an expanded business and technology
alliance between EMC and VMware. Key to this expanded alliance, the companies
announced a new reseller agreement whereby EMC is now a fully authorized
reseller of VMware vCenter(TM) AppSpeed. This new solution, along with EMC's
virtualization services, will be offered through EMC Select as part of the EMC
Ionix portfolio, enabling customers to have full management capabilities
across their physical and virtual IT infrastructures.

Jay Mastaj, Vice President and General Manager of EMC Ionix Software Group,
said, "Today's acquisition of FastScale puts another stake in the ground built
by our recently announced Ionix portfolio of automated IT management solutions
for the private cloud. With FastScale, we not only give customers deeper
management capabilities via FastScale's unique application stack management
and provisioning, but we also begin to help customers fundamentally change the
way they approach compliance, security and configuration management in the
private cloud. FastScale and its portfolio of products, intellectual property
and talented employees will help us champion and expedite this transition of
physical to virtual to private cloud infrastructures."

Given the complexity of hybrid physical and virtual infrastructures, a
retrofit of existing solutions does not work for next generation data centers.
Instead, such complicated infrastructures require management at a logical
level by design. By addressing how server software built and not just how it
is deployed, FastScale uniquely delivers a low cost, high efficiency
infrastructure for managing dynamic computing in today's complex data centers.

FastScale's flagship product -- FastScale Composer Suite -- is a fully
automated platform for building, optimizing, managing and deploying
application environments in physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. The
solution's unique technology allows customers to streamline software stacks
automatically, dynamically deploy logical servers to physical, virtual or
cloud in seconds to minutes, manage patches and configurations via policies,
increase virtual machine density and decrease memory requirements, and unify
management of virtual, physical and cloud infrastructures.

Lynn LeBlanc, Chief Executive Officer of FastScale Technology, said, "We are
very excited to join EMC and help customers facilitate the evolution of
managing their next-generation IT environments. The addition of our software
stack management, optimization and provisioning technology to the EMC Ionix
portfolio will help customers gain tremendous efficiencies and management
flexibility across storage, server and network in physical, virtual and cloud
infrastructures. The acquisition by EMC will better enable us to drive
FastScale technology through the EMC's strong research and development,
marketing and sales channels, helping to expedite this evolution in IT
management."

As a result of the acquisition, FastScale will join EMC's Ionix Software
Group, reporting to Jay Mastaj.

For additional color on Ionix and the acquisition of FastScale, please visit
the following blogs:
-- IT Management 2.0 - http://itmanagement2.com/

-- Chuck Hollis - http://chucksblog.emc.com/


About FastScale Technology, Inc.

FastScale Technology delivers integrated software platforms and solutions for
next generation data centers. Through its patent-pending technologies,
FastScale enables complex IT organizations to build, optimize, manage and
deploy server software environments with unparalleled simplicity, flexibility
and security while achieving dramatic lifecycle cost savings and server
utilization improvement. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, FastScale
is a privately held company backed by leading venture capital firms including
ATA Ventures, Leapfrog Ventures and Hunt Ventures. For more information, visit
www.fastscale.com.

About EMC

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of
information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations
of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their
information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at
www.EMC.com.


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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) our ability to protect our proprietary technology; (iv) risks
associated with managing the growth of our business, including risks
associated with acquisitions and investments and the challenges and costs of
integration, restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (v)
fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating results and risks associated with
trading of VMware stock; (vi) competitive factors, including but not limited
to pricing pressures and new product introductions; (vii) the relative and
varying rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume and
mixture of product and services revenues; (viii) component and product quality
and availability; (ix) the transition to new products, the uncertainty of
customer acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and
market change; (x) insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xi) war or
acts of terrorism; (xii) the ability to attract and retain highly qualified
employees; (xiii) fluctuating currency exchange rates; (xiv) litigation that
we may be involved in; and (xv) 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.

SOURCE EMC Corporation

Todd Cadley of EMC Corporation, +1-843-569-2715, cadley_todd@emc.com