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EMC CENTERA SUCCESS CONTINUES: OVER 1000 CLIENTS, 30 PB SHIPPED

EMC Corp announced that more than 1,000 customers have purchased its pioneering EMC Centera content addressed storage (CAS) platform, and it has shipped more than 30 PB (30,000 TB) of capacity since Centera's introduction.

Electric Insurance Co, BT (formerly British Telecom) and Westpac Bank are among the most recent customers to purchase Centera for applications including claims management, on-demand ILM services and check image archiving.

Bill Croteau, manager of Technology Infrastructure at Electric Insurance Company said, "EMC Centera is very easy to manage compared with the optical technology it replaced. We use EMC Centera for our claims management application, and we can now satisfy requests for records in seconds rather than minutes. The performance EMC Centera delivers far exceeds our expectations."

Maurice Nettesheim, BT's product marketing manager said, "As the active enterprise archiving component, EMC Centera is an important element in the storage infrastructure for our on-demand ILM (information lifecycle management) services. With EMC Centera, we are able to deliver an attractive, robust, highly scalable and secure solution to address the archive challenges our customers face."

"Our commitments to customer service and security were the top priorities when we identified and evaluated options on the market to address our Check Voucher and Signature Authority Archiving needs," said Steve Parkin, core systems architect of Westpac Bank. "EMC Centera was selected because it offered the most advanced technology and greatest choice of applications. With EMC's excellent service and support, our decision to standardize and deploy our active enterprise archive on EMC Centera was an easy one, and one that will help us better serve our customers."

Randy Kerns, senior partner at the Evaluator Group added, "EMC Centera paved the way for a new generation of disk-based archiving solutions by combining its unique software with ATA disk technology. The rapid adoption of this platform by customers in a short period of time is further proof that the industry has changed the way it looks at archiving. Rather than being difficult to access, archived information can be stored in an enterprise archive so that information remains secure, accessible and useful throughout its lifecycle."

In the third quarter of 2004, EMC reported that Centera grew by more than 50 percent over the third quarter of last year. This rapid adoption of Centera by customers in a wide range of industries has been driven by the availability of a free and open application programming interface (API). This API is supported by more than 400 partners and resellers, and by more than 150 integrated applications that utilize Centera as the content repository of choice. In addition, Centera Universal Access enables non-integrated applications to use Centera. This wide range of support has made Centera the fastest-growing platform in EMC's history and the undisputed leader for active enterprise archiving.

Tom Heiser, senior vice president and general manager of EMC's Centera Division, commented, "EMC Centera's rapid adoption underscores its role as a critical component of customers' information lifecycle management initiatives. Our surveys show that 94 percent of EMC Centera deployments are for archiving new content and migrating content from existing archiving technologies such as tape or optical. Customers are increasingly making EMC Centera the central enterprise archive for both new and legacy archives."

About EMC

EMC Corp is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing automated networked storage solutions to 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/.