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Contents 1 EMC Page Update for 2008 2 Selling furniture 3 One other acquisition that is missing 4 Unlikley? 5 Merge proposals

[edit] EMC Page Update for 2008

My name is Dan Schawbel and I do PR for EMC Corporation. Our company has changed extensively and has been reorginized ever since the creation of this Wikipedia entry. I would like to propose a brand new format for this page to really capture the essence of EMC and to make people understand what the company is all about. Please let me know your opinions and how we may proceed with rectifying this page so it's current.--Shwibbs (talk) 18:44, 29 August 2008 (UTC) _____

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is an information infrastructure company headquartered in Hopkinton, MA. It is a member of the Fortune 500.

1. History

EMC was founded in 1979 by Richard (Dick) Egan and Roger Marino as a manufacturer of memory boards. Shortly thereafter, the company expanded beyond memory to disk drives and networked storage platforms and it remains the largest provider of data storage platforms in the world, competing in a market against IBM, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard, and Hitachi Data Systems. EMC has also introduced software and professional services that transition its business into comprehensive information management. Joseph Tucci became CEO in 2001.

2. Products and Services

a. Storage

EMC’s data storage products are built to “store, protect, optimize, and leverage” information. The company’s network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) are market leaders, and the company is credited with creating the content-addressable storage (CAS) category with the introduction of its Centera platform.

b. Content Management and Archiving

EMC’s enterprise content management software is used to capture and store documents in a secure and central location. Using this software, employees can share documents and work together. As a result, companies are able to manage their information better and make sure they are in compliance with various regulations.

c. Security

RSA, the security division of EMC, develops products to secure enterprise data, secure employee and partner access, and manage security information.

3. Culture

4. Major Acquisitions

a. McData

b. Documentum

c. VMware

d. RSA Security

e. Pi Corporation

f. Iomega

6. See Also

7. References

8. Additional Links

[edit] Selling furniture

The article currently says this about EMC's origins: "Originally a manufacturer of memory boards, (and before that, selling computer furniture) EMC quickly began expanding beyond memory to disk drives." The parenthetical remark about computer furniture is incorrect. The company EMC never sold computer furniture. Here is what EMC cofounder Dick Egan says on the subject:

A friend of mine from California owned an office furniture company---he'd designed a workstation specifically for computer users, and he wanted us to sell it to firms in New England. Now, Roger, I, and "C" (a third person who was involved briefly) had five electrical engineering degrees between us. We didn't want to become furniture salesmen! But with a 55% commission and enough samples to furnish our own office, we didn't refuse. We saw this as a way to make some money while we got our real business off the ground. We registered EMC Corporation; we manhandled desks into customers' elevators … and we made our seed money.

See the difference? The company that sold furniture wasn't EMC. It was an entirely different company that existed before EMC did. Egan and the other two EMC founders worked there as salesmen for a while to raise the capital that they later used to start EMC.

I'll delete the parenthetical remark and add some external links to the historical pages at the EMC official site. Pat Berry 20:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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Update required?

I agree the History section needs to be changed, I believe, as I'd always thought the name originated as per the 'trivia' section that states, "EMC Corporation" is the company's full name, shortened in the company logo by using the mathematical convention of squaring the C."

I can't find mention of the anonymous third partner anywhere on their website.

[edit] One other acquisition that is missing

Would be Conley Corp. EMC acquired them in 1998 (IIRC, the date was August or early September). I worked for Conley at the time, so I remember this very clearly. Conley was based in Cambridge, MA after moving from NYC. The Conley product that EMC wanted was SafePath. EMC sold off the other major Conley product at the same time, which was SoftRAID.

[edit] Unlikley?

I find the statement "EMC did not adopt the EMC² notation to refer to Einstein's famous equation, E=mc². The first C stands for the third partner who left before the formation of the company and the second C stands for the Corporation" to be highly unlikley. The form may not have been chosen solely to refer to "E=mc²" but it's pretty obvious that the formula played some part in developing the name, if only a referential one. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.135.32.188 (talk) 16:34, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Merge proposals

I'm proposing merge of minor articles about EMC products, each one them really containing 1 or 2 paragraphs, into main EMC article and replacing them with redirects. These products are non-notable by itself and would be eventually deleted by itself. --GreyCat (talk) 08:00, 2 December 2008 (UTC)