Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute

EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Storage Resource and SAN Management Software1. Gartner describes market leaders in this report as having “the highest combined measures of Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. They have the most comprehensive and scalable products. They have a proven track record of financial performance and an established market presence. In terms of vision, they are perceived as thought leaders, with well-articulated plans for ease of use, as well as how to address scalability and product breadth. For vendors to have long-term success, they must plan to address the expanded market requirements for change management, root cause analysis and performance analysis. Leaders must not only deliver to current market requirements, which continue to change, but also need to anticipate and deliver on future requirements. A cornerstone for Leaders is the ability to articulate how these requirements will be addressed as part of their vision for resource management. As a group, Leaders can be considered a part of most new purchase proposals, and they have high success rates in winning new business.”

“As customers continue to virtualize their data centers and lay the foundation for their journey to the private cloud, the requirements to simplify and automate common tasks such as reporting, planning and provisioning through a single, consistent, and repeatable information-centric approach is paramount,” said Jay Mastaj, Senior Vice President and General Manager, EMC Ionix. “EMC continues to provide market-leading tools—and a long term strategy and vision—to help customers enhance service levels while improving efficiency as they increase their use of virtualization.”

The Ionix™ ControlCenter™ family of storage resource management (SRM) applications provides automation, reporting and analysis that enable customers to gain maximum value from their investments. Industry leading integration with VMware environments, performance automation technologies like EMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST) for lowered cost, and space efficiency technologies like thin provisioning (or virtual provisioning) improve service levels while maximizing capital and operational efficiencies.