EMC Takes Thousands on a Journey to the Private Cloud at 10th Annual EMC World Conference

HOPKINTON, Mass., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Next week at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, hosts its tenth annual EMC World conference for customers, partners, technologists, journalists and analysts from around the globe. Underscoring the event theme "The Journey to the Private Cloud," EMC will reveal how this new model of computing delivers unprecedented gains in operational efficiency, quality of service and business agility for Enterprise IT departments. Highlights scheduled throughout the week include the introduction of exciting new breakthrough technologies that, for the first time, unlock the true potential of the private cloud.  

"EMC World 2010 is a must-attend event for any IT professional embarking on a journey to the private cloud," said Jeremy Burton, EMC's Chief Marketing Officer.  "Attendees will walk away with a keen understanding of the issues, the new technology that will form the foundation of their private cloud, and what it really takes to run IT as a service."  

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Keynotes

EMC World 2010 kicks off on Monday, May 10 with a keynote presentation delivered by EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci.  Mr. Tucci will describe EMC's private cloud vision and why EMC and its strategic partners are best aligned to guide customers on a safe and swift journey to the private cloud computing.

Additional executive keynotes:

• Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products, will explain the three major phases of the journey to the private cloud and showcase EMC's innovative technologies and solutions.  
• Howard Elias, President and Chief Operation Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services, will lead a panel of EMC and VMware experts offering practical guidance on issues ranging from fully virtualized data centers to implementing high levels of security in the virtual world.
• Mark Lewis, President, EMC Information Intelligence Group*, will discuss how customers are leveraging information for business advantage by connecting the right information with the right people at the right time.
• Brian Gallagher, Divisional President, EMC Symmetrix and Virtualization Product Group, will explain how EMC storage infrastructure has evolved to deliver new capabilities that free information from a physical device to a virtualized resource that is automated, integrated with the infrastructure, consumed on demand, efficient, and secure.
• Rich Napolitano, Divisional President, Unified Storage Division at EMC, will discuss how EMC is engineering the information utility, a dynamic pool of storage-related resources that are highly efficient yet adapt automatically to changing requirements.
• Frank Slootman, President, EMC Backup Recovery Systems Division, will discuss how backup and recovery is being fundamentally transformed with data deduplication and how EMC's offerings can help customers redesign their backup and recovery infrastructure for next-generation data protection.
• Sanjay Mirchandani, EMC's Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, will focus on EMC IT's own journey to the private cloud, including how EMC is transforming its own IT infrastructure, transitioning its IT organizations, and developing next-generation IT roles.  

More information on EMC World, including a full agenda and registration details are available at www.emcworld.com.  

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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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* Formerly Content Management and Archiving Division

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