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EMC Increased Market Share Lead In Q2

Announcement posted by EMC 20 Sep 2002

Newly Released Quarterly Data Shows EMC Outpaced Industry Growth in Networked Storage and External RAID Systems
EMC Corporation increased its lead as the world's #1 provider of networked disk storage systems during the second quarter of 2002, according to new quarterly market share data released today by research firm IDC. Compared with the first quarter of 2002, EMC widened its lead and grew faster than the overall market in storage area networks (SANs) and network-attached storage (NAS), the two fastest-growing segments of the disk storage systems market, and in the broader external RAID storage systems market.

In its new "Q2 2002 Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Tracker," IDC reported the following results for the second quarter:

SAN The Open SAN market grew over 5% overall from the first quarter to the second quarter. EMC increased its lead as the #1 SAN supplier with 30.2% revenue share.

NAS The NAS market grew 4.3% overall from the first quarter to the second quarter. EMC extended its lead as the #1 NAS supplier with 37.7% revenue share.

External RAID The external RAID market grew 2.6% overall from the first quarter to the second quarter. EMC extended its lead as the #1 external RAID supplier with 21.8% revenue share.

See www.EMC.com/networkedcustomers/ for recent news on EMC customers deploying networked storage and software.

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EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world leader in information storage systems, software, networks and services, providing automated networked storage solutions for organisations across the globe. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.australia.EMC.com

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