EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that EMC received a "Strong Positive" rating in Gartner's report entitled "MarketScope for Storage Services, North America, 2009."¹ EMC was one of 11 vendors evaluated in the report, and received the highest possible rating, "Strong Positive."

"EMC Global Services' broad portfolio of end-to-end services and solutions enable customers to maximize the value of their technology and infrastructure investments, reduce risk, and reap the benefits of initiatives such as virtualization and the transformation to private cloud, which is especially critical with today’s budget pressures," said Howard Elias, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services. "We believe Gartner's 'Strong Positive' rating is validation of EMC's continued innovation and leadership in delivering outstanding services and solutions, and exemplary total customer experience. Customers tell us our services capabilities are a key contributor to the overall value of partnering with EMC and it is gratifying to see this industry recognition."

The following services comprised Gartner’s core storage services segmentation and served as a baseline for Gartner's market sizing and market share assessments:

• Storage Hardware Maintenance and Support Services
• Storage Software Maintenance and Support Services
• Storage Consulting Services
• Storage Implementation Services
• Storage Management Services

To be considered candidates for Gartner’s Storage Services MarketScope, vendors had to deliver services in at least two of the categories, have annual storage services revenues greater than $100 million, and provide services for multiple market segments. Evaluation criteria used by Gartner to rate the vendors included Customer Experience, Innovation, Market Understanding, Market Responsiveness and Track Record, Operations, Marketing Execution, and Overall Viability. To view the entire Gartner Storage Services MarketScope report, go to www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints/emc/169882.html.

The MarketScope is copyrighted 2009 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the MarketScope, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest rating. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

EMC Global Services provides the strategic guidance and technology expertise organizations need to address their business and information infrastructure challenges and derive the maximum value from their information assets and investments. With over 14,000 professional- and support-service experts worldwide, plus a global network of alliances and partners, EMC Global Services leverages proven methodologies, industry best practices, experience and a knowledge base derived from EMC’s 30-year information-centric heritage to help customers reduce risk, lower costs and speed time-to-value.