A Message from Our CEO
EMC's Commitment to Sustainability
EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver information technology as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and efficient way.
We aim for EMC to evolve over time into a global leader in sustainability, through our product innovation and more efficient and innovative business practices. The long-term success of our company depends upon our ability to lead our industry in the pursuit of a cleaner and more sustainable world.
Our customers want more efficient IT operations that cost less money to operate, consume less power and help them reduce their carbon footprint.
EMC recently introduced innovative, industry leading technologies that deliver energy-efficient design. Our new EMC FAST VP (Fully Automated Storage Tiering with Virtual Pools) software optimizes the EMC Symmetrix VMAX platform for performance, utilization and cost. Compared to single-tier systems, this automated tiering technology delivers up to 40 percent more application performance at a 40 percent lower cost while requiring 87 percent fewer disks and 75 percent less power. We estimate the combined energy efficiencies of VMAX with FAST VP will enable customers to reduce power consumption by more than 270 million kW hours in 2011—enough to power 24,400 homes.
At EMC World, one of our customers, a smart grid network provider, demonstrated how EMC technologies for Cloud Computing and analysis of "Big Data" are enabling electric utilities to study consumption patterns so they can manage and source power more efficiently and intelligently.
We also deploy EMC technologies in our data centers to demonstrate the benefits customers can realize and to showcase best practices. Phases I and II of our journey to Cloud Computing have delivered $27 million in annual operating cost reductions from lower power, cooling and space consumption. This has reduced our IT energy use by one-third and reduced our carbon footprint by nearly 100 million pounds of CO2. Phase III of our journey to Cloud Computing—delivering IT as a service, on a pay-for-what-you-consume model—will establish financial incentives for business units to waste less and become smarter consumers of IT services.
We are pleased thus far with our approach toward achieving sustainability, both here at EMC and with those we serve. We are mindful of a long road ahead, and we continue to see the IT industry, and our role within it, as significant drivers in the pursuit of a safer, more prosperous world.
Joseph M. Tucci
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
