EMC Placed in The Leaders Quadrant in Newly Released Analysis of Data Warehouse Database Management Systems

HOPKINTON, Mass. - February 24, 2011 -

EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems.

“We believe this recognition from Gartner, positioning EMC in the Leaders Quadrant, aligns with the growing acceptance that EMC’s data computing solutions are achieving in the marketplace,” said Bill Cook, general manager and senior vice president of EMC’s Data Computing Division. “EMC’s approach for data warehousing in the era of ‘big data’ is striking a loud chord, and our delivery of solutions that offer greater data insight, performance, flexibility and reliability are gaining strong traction with important customers.”

The EMC® Greenplum® Data Computing Appliance is an integrated data warehouse system with a breakthrough Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP) architecture, a key enabler of “big data” clouds and self-service analytics that allow organizations to store, manage and closely analyze terabytes of detailed data for faster business insight, conclusions and revelations. The EMC Greenplum Data Computing Appliance also enables organizations to make sense of massive amounts of data generated from various sources such as always-on networks, the Web, consumers, surveillance systems and sensors. With twice the data loading speed of its nearest competitor and the industry's best performance, this innovative new EMC appliance permits more data to be analyzed faster and at lower cost.

Interested parties can request a complimentary copy of the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems report at http://www.greenplum.com/magicquadrant/.

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