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14 September 2009

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Industry Veteran Pat Gelsinger Joins EMC as President & COO of Information Infrastructure Products; Howard Elias Promoted to President & COO of Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services

EMC Corporation announced two senior leadership appointments. Industry veteran Pat Gelsinger has joined the company from Intel Corporation as President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products. Gelsinger, 48, will be responsible for EMC's Information Infrastructure product portfolio, including its Information Storage, RSA Information Security, Content Management and Archiving and Ionix IT management divisions. EMC also announced the promotion of Howard Elias, 52, to President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services.

Gelsinger and Elias will report to Joe Tucci, EMC's Chairman and CEO, and join the Executive Office of the Chairman. Under their leadership, EMC will continue to strengthen and advance its market leadership for information infrastructure products and services as it marches to address four of the fastest-growing IT market opportunities -- next-generation fully virtualized data centers, cloud computing, virtualized desktops and clients, and next-generation backup and recovery solutions.

Gelsinger joins EMC from Intel where he most recently served as Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, the company's largest business group accounting for more than half of Intel's annual revenue. Under Gelsinger's leadership, this group is responsible for Intel's enterprise products including clients (PC's), Server (Xeon and Itanium), Embedded, Communications, Visualization and Storage products. The group is also responsible for the Nehalem microarchitecture product development.

Howard Elias has served as President, EMC Global Services and EMC's Ionix IT management group for the last three years, overseeing EMC's global Customer Support organizations, Professional and Managed Services, EMC Consulting, and Global Presales and Education Services along with the Ionix resource management software portfolio. Prior to this, Elias was Executive Vice President, Global Marketing and Corporate Development, directing all of EMC's marketing, sales enablement, communications, and technology alliances activities. In that role, he was also responsible for Corporate Development and New Ventures, which focused on mergers and acquisitions, new business development, the integration of acquisitions as well as investments and the incubation of new businesses.

EMC Expands Executive Office of the Chairman

With these appointments, EMC has expanded its Executive Office of the Chairman which, in addition to Joe Tucci and Bill Teuber, EMC Vice Chairman, the Executive Office of the Chairman will now comprise:

  --  Howard Elias - President & COO, EMC Information Infrastructure and

      Cloud Services

  --  Pat Gelsinger- President & COO, EMC Information Infrastructure

      Products

  --  David Goulden, 50 - Executive Vice President and Chief Financial

      Officer

Tucci To Remain as EMC's Chairman and CEO Through 2012

Separately, EMC announced that Joe Tucci has informed the EMC Board of his plans to remain as an active Chairman and CEO through 2012.

Background on Pat Gelsinger

Gelsinger joined Intel in 1979. Prior to his role as Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, Gelsinger led Intel Labs, which encompasses many of Intel research activities, including leading Corporate Technology Group and Intel Research. As Intel's first chief technology officer (CTO), he managed Intel's longer-term research efforts and helped ensure consistency from Intel's emerging computing, networking and communications products and technologies.

Previously, Gelsinger led Intel's Desktop Products Group, where he was responsible for its desktop processors, chipsets and motherboards for consumer and commercial OEM customers as well as many of Intel's technology initiatives and the Intel Developer Forum. He also led the development of the Intel ProShare video conferencing and Internet communications product line. He was general manager of the division responsible for the Pentium Pro, IntelDX2 and Intel486 microprocessor families. He was also architect of the original 80486 and a design engineer on the 80386 and 80286 processor design teams.

Gelsinger holds six patents in the areas of VLSI design, computer architecture and communications, is a well-known speaker on technology trends and has received a variety of industry recognition awards.

Gelsinger received an associate's degree from Lincoln Technical Institute in 1979, a bachelor's degree from Santa Clara University in 1983, Magna Cum Laude, and a master's degree from Stanford University in 1985. All degrees are in electrical engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (2008) and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters in 2008 from William Jessup University.

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