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the Celerra CNS (Clustered Network Server) series, our high-end NAS offering, which serves as a front-end NAS connection for an
externally attached Symmetrix or CLARiiON storage system. In February 2004, we introduced the Celerra CNS 514 Data Mover,
offering customers improved performance.
Our Celerra products allow users of an Internet Protocol (IP) network to store, access and update files. Our operating software for Celerra is Data Access
in Real Time (DART), designed exclusively for high performance network files access.
We intend to continue to enhance our NetWin and Celerra families of systems with additional features and capabilities.
Centera Systems – Content Addressed Storage Products
We offer the Centera CAS product to meet the requirements of "fixed content." We define fixed content as information whose value lies in part on its
unchanging nature, such as digital x-rays and other medical records, movies, check images and e-mail correspondence. Our operating software for Centera,
CentraStar, incorporates content addressing intelligence that calculates a unique address derived from the content of every stored object. Centera eliminates
the need for applications to be aware of the physical location of information, regardless of scale, from single-digit terabytes to petabytes, thereby simplifying
the task of having applications access and manage huge numbers of objects. Centera ensures verifiable accuracy of the content for data integrity,
authentication and other purposes.
In April 2003, we introduced a new specialized CAS solution, the Centera Compliance Edition (CE), which provides secure, online storage optimized for
long-term retention and instant retrieval of regulated digital assets. Features of Centera CE include retention enforcement, enhanced disposition or
"shredding," and application access security.
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In February 2004, we introduced enhancements to Centera, including mainframe connectivity and improved performance and data replication speeds.
Centera is integrated by third parties with their applications and generally sold as part of a joint solution. As of December 31, 2003, we had more than
250 partners in the Centera developers program and more than 90 applications available to be used with Centera.
We intend to continue to enhance and improve our Centera system with additional features and capabilities, as well as add new partners to expand the
number of applications integrated with Centera.
Connectrix Systems – Storage Area Network Products
Our Connectrix family includes high-end directors as well as departmental switches. These Fibre Channel-based systems significantly increase the
connectivity between servers and storage systems in a SAN and provide the ability to centralize monitoring and control of information in a SAN. Our
Connectrix family of directors and switches are manufactured for us by third-party original equipment manufacturers ("OEMs").
We intend to continue to enhance our Connectrix family of switches and directors with additional features and capabilities.
Information Storage Systems Revenue
Revenue from information storage systems represented approximately 53%, 55% and 61% of revenues in 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
Information Storage Software
We offer highly innovative software that provides customers with superior information management, sharing and protection capabilities. Our information
storage software includes:
platform-based software; and
multi-platform storage management and infrastructure software.
Platform-based Software
Our platform-based software generally controls and enables functions that take place within the EMC system, such as replication, optimization and data
movement. Examples of such software include TimeFinder, Symmetrix Remote Data Facility (SRDF), Navisphere, SnapView, MirrorView and Symmetrix
Optimizer. In 2003, we introduced:
SAN Copy, which enables customers to centrally manage the movement and replication of data between CLARiiON and other EMC
and third-party systems;
SRDF-A, which allows customers to maintain a recoverable and restartable remote copy of data at all times, at any distance and
without any host application impact; and
EMC Snap, space-saving replication software for high-end storage.
We are the leading supplier of platform-based software in areas such as local and remote replication, which customers use to protect and share data. We
intend to continue to enhance our platform-based software with additional features and capabilities.
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