In addition to leading the overall storage software market for the full year of 2009, EMC also led in three storage software categories – storage replication, storage device management and storage management.  EMC’s leadership position in storage software played an important role in supporting the company’s $12-billion information infrastructure business in 2009.

Pat Gelsinger, President & Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products, said, “There are tremendous opportunities for customers to better manage and protect the growing sea of information as they transition their data centers from four walls to a hybrid model that leverages virtualization and automated policies across geographically dispersed locations. The tenants of automated data movement across tiered storage coupled with the best-of-breed data deduplication and discovery technologies are the keys to helping customers achieve success.”

Additionally, EMC has announced on March 5, 2010 that it has emerged as the No. 1 provider of external disk storage systems in 2009 again, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, March 2010.