It operates in four segments: Information Storage Products (ISP), Software Group Products and Services (SGPS), Information Storage and Management Services (ISMS), and VMware Software Products and Services (VSPS). ISP segment offers networked information storage systems used in a storage area network, networked attached storage, content addressed storage, or direct attached storage environment, as well as platform-based software that controls and enables functions that take place within the networked storage system.
SGPS segment develops storage management software, which automates, protects, and manages multivendor storage infrastructures; and content management software, enabling users to create, manage, deliver, and archive unstructured content, including documents, Web pages, and media.
ISMS segment offers technology solutions, and customer service and education to enable its customers build and manage information technology infrastructures.
It also provides consulting, assessments, implementations, integration, operations management, support, and maintenance.
VSPS segment’s software provides a layer of abstraction between the computing, storage, and networking hardware, as well as the software that runs on it.
EMC markets its products through distributors, systems integrators, resellers, and original equipment manufacturer hardware vendors for information storage and management, and the virtualization infrastructure software markets.
Its products and services are used in various computing platforms, storage systems, and software applications, including transaction processing, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, data warehousing, e-commerce, content management, business intelligence, email, and Web hosting.
EMC was founded in 1979 by Richard J.
Egan and Roger Marino.
The company is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts.
