Milestones

1999

• Named stock of the decade by NYSE for best 10-year performance.
• Ranked #5 on Business Week ranking of America's Top-Performing IT Companies.
• EMC Enterprise Storage Network introduced.
• Named to the Fortune e-50 Index of the Internet elite.
• Joseph M. Tucci named President and Chief Operating Officer.

1998

• Named Massachusetts "Company of the Decade" by The Boston Globe.
• Franklin manufacturing facility opens.
• Software revenue reaches $445 million, making EMC the world's fastest-growing major software company.
• Revenue nears $4 billion, more than $1 billion from Europe.

1997

• #16 on first-ever Business Week 50 list of America's best-performing companies.
• Named worldwide open storage market leader.
• EMC introduces new line of Symmetrix.

1996

• One petabyte (1,000 terabytes) of Symmetrix capacity shipped since inception.
• EMC Data Manager introduced.

1995

• Symmetrix 3000, world's first platform-independent storage system, introduced for open systems market.
• EMC overtakes IBM as mainframe storage market leader.
• First-year sales of open storage: $200 million.

1994

• EMC enters Fortune 500 list of America's largest industrial corporations; sales surpass $1 billion.
• Symmetrix 5500, world's first terabyte-sized system, announced.
• SRDF, first software product, introduced.

1992

• Michael C. Ruettgers named President and Chief Executive Officer.
• Harmonix ICDA systems for AS/400 computers introduced.
• Scheduled summer shutdown cancelled to meet skyrocketing demand.
• ISO 9001 certification completed in just nine months.

1991

• Champion Integrated Cached Tape Subsystem (ICTS) for AS/400 computers introduced.

1990

• Symmetrix 4200 Integrated Cached Disk Array introduced with a capacity of 24 gigabytes.