EMC Corporation
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EMC Corporation a Financial Times Global 500, Fortune 500
and S&P 500
company, develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure
and virtual infrastructure hardware
, software, and services. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts
, USA.
Former Intel executive Richard Egan
and his college roommate, Roger Marino
, founded EMC in 1979. The company’s name, EMC, stands for the initials of the founders, and an unknown third individual who has remained nameless. "EMC Corporation" is the company's full name.
EMC stock went public on April 06, 1986 at a price of $16.50 per share.
and Roger Marino
(the E and M in EMC), introduced their first 64-kilobyte memory boards for the Prime Computer
in 1981, and continued with the development of memory boards for other computer types. In the mid 1980s the company expanded beyond memory to other computer data storage types and networked storage platforms. The company started to ship its flagship product, the Symmetrix
in 1990. The Symmetrix has been developed by a team headed by Moshe Yanai
. This product is the main reason for the rapid growth of EMC in the 1990s, both in size and value, from a company valued hundreds of millions of dollars to a multi-billion company. Moshe Yanai managed the Symmetrix development from the product's inception in the late 1980s until shortly before leaving EMC in 2001, and his Symmetrix development team grew from several people to thousands. EMC remains the largest provider of data storage platforms in the world, competing with IBM
, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard
, and Hitachi Data Systems
. Consulting and IT Services have been an increasingly important source of revenue. Joseph Tucci
, CEO since 2001, was paid over $9 million in 2009.
In July 2006 EMC opened a Research and Development office in Shanghai, China, to leverage the burgeoning Chinese labor pool and facilitate a further expansion into the Chinese market.
On June 7, 2007, EMC announced that it would invest $160 million in Singapore
to set up a new 15000 sqfoot development laboratory which would begin operations within the year.
A series of acquisitions and partnerships helped grow EMC to the largest provider of data storage platforms in the world. On November 12, 2007, EMC partnered with NetQoS
to deliver the first integrated infrastructure discovery and performance monitoring solutions.
to content management systems
to storage area network
s, backup
, recovery
and archiving solutions and information security
. A sample of EMC products are listed below. This is not an all-inclusive listing of EMC products. Product details can be found on their respective product pages on Wikipedia.
EMC also offers services, including consulting, technology deployment, customer service
and support
, and training and EMC Proven Professional certification services provided by the education services division.
EMC has ranked on several best places to work including ones abroad. EMC was ranked 33rd in the Top 50 Best Places to Work of 2010 by Glassdoor.com. In Ireland, EMC was ranked 4th in the Great Place to Work Institute’s Best Places to Work, where employees ranked companies. EMC has also won awards for programs for interns and recent college graduates, including in 2008 EMC was ranked 44th in BusinessWeek’s List of Top 50 Places to Intern and also 66th ranked in BusinessWeek's List of Top 100 Places to Launch a Career. In 2009 Collegegrad.com list of Top 50 Entry Level Employers.
’s U.S. Green Rankings and 20th in the Technology Green Rankings in 2010. In February 2010, EMC joined the Ceres Network
, a non-profit organization that addresses sustainability
challenges, such as global climate change. In 2009, EMC was awarded the “Enable the Eco-Enterprise” by Oracle
for its effort to support their green business practice and reduce environmental impact by utilizing Oracle applications and reporting.
EMC sponsors programs in the U.S. that strive to improve education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM
) and 19,000 students have taken Information Storage and Management courses from 2006-2009. EMC is a partner of the World Economic Forum
’s Global Education Initiative (GEI) whose charter is to raise awareness and support the implementation of relevant, sustainable and scalable national education sector plans on a global level. EMC and its employees support a variety of local community foundations and programs in order to give back to their local communities.
In support of its Supply Chain Sustainability initiative, EMC is a member of the Electronic Industry Citizen Coalition (EICC), which promotes an industry code of conduct for global electronics supply chains to improve working and environmental conditions.
EMC is a board member of The Green Grid
, a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiencies in data centers around the world. The Green Grid’s mission is to help promote the adoption of energy efficient standards, process, measurement method and technologies in order to reduce power consumption and waste globally. EMC is also a member of one of Green Grid’s Alliance Partners, SNIA
. SNIA is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping companies manage information through development and promotion of standards, technologies, and educational services.
EMC Chairman, president and CEO Joseph M. Tucci
currently resides on the Technology CEO Council which advocates for public policies that promote innovation and U.S. competiveness.
A March 2011 TED lecture by Morgan Spurlock, creator of the documentary Supersize Me, was partly sponsored by EMC. The company had bought the naming rights to the lecture, entitled "The Greatest TED Talk Ever Sold." The lecture covered the subject of transparency in modern advertising and marketing. The company bought these rights via an online auction on eBay for $7,100 USD. At the end of the lecture, a check for the amount given by EMC was donated to The Sapling foundation--the parent company of TED Conferences, LLC.
Fortune 500
The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks the top 500 U.S. closely held and public corporations as ranked by their gross revenue after adjustments made by Fortune to exclude the impact of excise taxes companies collect. The list includes publicly and...
and S&P 500
S&P 500
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company, develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure
Information Infrastructure
An information infrastructure is defined by Hanseth as "a shared, evolving, open, standardized, and heterogeneous installed base" and by Pironti as all of the people, processes, procedures, tools, facilities, and technology which supports the creation, use, transport, storage, and destruction of...
and virtual infrastructure hardware
Hardware
Hardware is a general term for equipment such as keys, locks, hinges, latches, handles, wire, chains, plumbing supplies, tools, utensils, cutlery and machine parts. Household hardware is typically sold in hardware stores....
, software, and services. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts
Hopkinton, Massachusetts
Hopkinton is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, just under 30 miles west and south of Boston. The town is best known as the starting point of the Boston Marathon, held annually on Patriots' Day in April, and as the home of computer storage firm EMC Corporation.For geographic and demographic...
, USA.
Former Intel executive Richard Egan
Richard Egan (businessman)
Richard J. Egan was an American engineer, businessman, political fundraiser and US Ambassador to Ireland.-Career:A year after receiving a degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 1962, he was on the team that helped develop Project Apollo memory systems for NASA...
and his college roommate, Roger Marino
Roger Marino
Roger M. Marino is a retired American engineer, businessman, and co-founder of EMC Corporation. His substantial contribution to Northeastern University funded their world class athletic center, which has been named in Marino's honor.-Corporate career:...
, founded EMC in 1979. The company’s name, EMC, stands for the initials of the founders, and an unknown third individual who has remained nameless. "EMC Corporation" is the company's full name.
EMC stock went public on April 06, 1986 at a price of $16.50 per share.
History
EMC, founded in 1979 by Richard EganRichard Egan (businessman)
Richard J. Egan was an American engineer, businessman, political fundraiser and US Ambassador to Ireland.-Career:A year after receiving a degree in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 1962, he was on the team that helped develop Project Apollo memory systems for NASA...
and Roger Marino
Roger Marino
Roger M. Marino is a retired American engineer, businessman, and co-founder of EMC Corporation. His substantial contribution to Northeastern University funded their world class athletic center, which has been named in Marino's honor.-Corporate career:...
(the E and M in EMC), introduced their first 64-kilobyte memory boards for the Prime Computer
Prime Computer
Prime Computer, Inc. was a Natick, Massachusetts-based producer of minicomputers from 1972 until 1992. The alternative spellings "PR1ME" and "PR1ME Computer" were used as brand names or logos by the company.-Founders:...
in 1981, and continued with the development of memory boards for other computer types. In the mid 1980s the company expanded beyond memory to other computer data storage types and networked storage platforms. The company started to ship its flagship product, the Symmetrix
Symmetrix
The Symmetrix system is EMC Corporation's flagship enterprise storage array. The Symmetrix development has been led by Moshe Yanai, who joined EMC in 1987, until shortly before his leaving EMC in 2001. There have been many generations of Symmetrix hardware, with the first appearing in 1990 and the...
in 1990. The Symmetrix has been developed by a team headed by Moshe Yanai
Moshe Yanai
Moshe Yanai is an Israeli electrical engineer . He is also a technologist and inventor, businessman, entrepreneur, aviator , investor, multi-millionaire, and philanthropist...
. This product is the main reason for the rapid growth of EMC in the 1990s, both in size and value, from a company valued hundreds of millions of dollars to a multi-billion company. Moshe Yanai managed the Symmetrix development from the product's inception in the late 1980s until shortly before leaving EMC in 2001, and his Symmetrix development team grew from several people to thousands. EMC remains the largest provider of data storage platforms in the world, competing with IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
, and Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Data Systems is a company providing mid-range and high-end storage systems, software and services. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd. and part of the Hitachi Information Systems & Telecommunications Division....
. Consulting and IT Services have been an increasingly important source of revenue. Joseph Tucci
Joseph M. Tucci
Joseph M. Tucci, more popularly known as Joe Tucci, is Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation...
, CEO since 2001, was paid over $9 million in 2009.
In July 2006 EMC opened a Research and Development office in Shanghai, China, to leverage the burgeoning Chinese labor pool and facilitate a further expansion into the Chinese market.
On June 7, 2007, EMC announced that it would invest $160 million in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
to set up a new 15000 sqfoot development laboratory which would begin operations within the year.
A series of acquisitions and partnerships helped grow EMC to the largest provider of data storage platforms in the world. On November 12, 2007, EMC partnered with NetQoS
NetQoS
NetQoS Inc. provides network management software and services, including applications for performance management and response time analysis. "QoS" refers to "quality of service." NetQoS Ranked Number 184 Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2007 Technology Fast 500...
to deliver the first integrated infrastructure discovery and performance monitoring solutions.
Products and services
EMC's product line ranges from enterprise storage arraysEnterprise storage
In computing, an enterprise storage is the computer storage designed for large-scale, high-technology environments of the modern enterprises. When comparing to the consumer storage, it has higher scalability, higher reliability, better fault tolerance, and much higher initial price.From the...
to content management systems
Enterprise content management
Enterprise Content Management is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization's documents, and other content, that relate to the organization's processes...
to storage area network
Storage area network
A storage area network is a dedicated network that provides access to consolidated, block level data storage. SANs are primarily used to make storage devices, such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and optical jukeboxes, accessible to servers so that the devices appear like locally attached devices...
s, backup
Backup
In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup....
, recovery
Data recovery
Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard disk drives, solid-state drives , USB flash drive,...
and archiving solutions and information security
Information security
Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction....
. A sample of EMC products are listed below. This is not an all-inclusive listing of EMC products. Product details can be found on their respective product pages on Wikipedia.
EMC also offers services, including consulting, technology deployment, customer service
Customer service
Customer service is the provision of service to customers before, during and after a purchase.According to Turban et al. , “Customer service is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction – that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer...
and support
Customer support
Customer support is a range of customer services to assist customers in making cost effective and correct use of a product. It includes assistance in planning, installation, training, trouble shooting, maintenance, upgrading, and disposal of a product....
, and training and EMC Proven Professional certification services provided by the education services division.
| Product category | EMC products |
|---|---|
| Storage | VMax, Symmetrix Symmetrix The Symmetrix system is EMC Corporation's flagship enterprise storage array. The Symmetrix development has been led by Moshe Yanai, who joined EMC in 1987, until shortly before his leaving EMC in 2001. There have been many generations of Symmetrix hardware, with the first appearing in 1990 and the... , CLARiiON CLARiiON CLARiiON is a discontinued SAN disk array manufactured and sold by EMC Corporation, it occupies the entry-level and mid-range of EMC's SAN disk array products.... (discontinued), Celerra Celerra Celerra is a discontinued NAS device produced by EMC Corporation. It was available as an integrated unit or as a NAS header which can be added to an independent EMC storage array such as a CLARiiON or a Symmetrix. It supports CIFS, NFS, FTP, NDMP, TFTP and MPFS protocols... (discontinued), VNX/VNXe, Iomega Iomega Iomega is an American producer of consumer external, portable and networking storage hardware. Established in the 1980s, Iomega has sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks. On April 8, 2008, EMC Corporation announced its plans to acquire Iomega for a consideration of US $213M... , Isilon |
| Virtualization Hardware virtualization Computer hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers or operating systems. It hides the physical characteristics of a computing platform from users, instead showing another abstract computing platform... |
VMware VMware VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary .... , VPLEX VPLEX In computer data storage, the EMC VPLEX is a virtual storage solution introduced by EMC in May 2010. VPLEX implements a distributed "virtualization" layer within and across geographically disparate Fibre Channel storage area networks and Data Centers..- Architecture :VPLEX is deployed as cluster... |
| Information Security Information security Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction.... |
RSA Security RSA Security RSA, the security division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, and maintains offices in Australia, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, China, Hong Kong and Japan.... |
| Backup Backup In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup.... , Recovery Data recovery Data recovery is the process of salvaging data from damaged, failed, corrupted, or inaccessible secondary storage media when it cannot be accessed normally. Often the data are being salvaged from storage media such as internal or external hard disk drives, solid-state drives , USB flash drive,... and Archiving |
DataDomain, Avamar, Mozy Mozy Mozy is an online backup service for both Windows and Mac users. The cloud service allows users to back up data continuously, manually or schedule updates. Mozy is known for offering backup storage space for home and business users. In 2011, they changed to their current tiered pricing model... , RecoverPoint, SRDF SRDF SRDF is a family of EMC products that facilitates the data replication from one Symmetrix storage array to another through a Storage Area Network or IP network.... , NetWorker EMC Legato NetWorker EMC NetWorker is a suite of enterprise level data protection software that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery. Cross-platform support is provided for Linux, Windows, Macintosh,... , Centera, SourceOne |
| Data warehousing/ Business intelligence Business intelligence Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes.... |
Greenplum Greenplum Greenplum is a database software company in San Mateo, California, specializing in enterprise data cloud solutions for large-scale data warehousing and analytics... |
| Enterprise content management Enterprise content management Enterprise Content Management is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization's documents, and other content, that relate to the organization's processes... and Information governance Data governance Data governance is an emerging discipline with an evolving definition. The discipline embodies a convergence of data quality, data management, data policies, business process management, and risk management surrounding the handling of data in an organization... |
Documentum Documentum Documentum is an enterprise content management platform, now delivered by EMC Corporation, as well as the name of the software company that originally developed the technology. EMC acquired Documentum for $1.7 billion in December, 2003... , SourceOne, xDoc, Captiva Captiva Software Captiva Software is now part of EMC Software Group, a division of EMC Corporation. Captiva makes software solutions for document information processing and data capture from paper and electronic documents and provides related services... |
| IT management | Ionix, SMARTS |
| Cloud computing Cloud computing Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network .... |
EMC Atmos EMC Atmos EMC Atmos is a cloud storage services platform developed by EMC Corporation. Atmos can be deployed as either a hardware appliance or as software in a virtual environment. The Atmos technology is designed to manage petabytes of information and billions of objects across multiple geographic locations... , vBLOCK, Mozy Mozy Mozy is an online backup service for both Windows and Mac users. The cloud service allows users to back up data continuously, manually or schedule updates. Mozy is known for offering backup storage space for home and business users. In 2011, they changed to their current tiered pricing model... |
| Services | Consulting, Customer support Customer support Customer support is a range of customer services to assist customers in making cost effective and correct use of a product. It includes assistance in planning, installation, training, trouble shooting, maintenance, upgrading, and disposal of a product.... , Education Services, Managed Services, Technology Services and Solutions |
Major acquisitions
The following table includes the listing and timeline of EMC Corporation's major acquisitions of other companies since 1996.| Year | Storage | Services | Information Security Information security Information security means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording or destruction.... | Enterprise Content Management Enterprise content management Enterprise Content Management is a formalized means of organizing and storing an organization's documents, and other content, that relate to the organization's processes... & Information Governance Data governance Data governance is an emerging discipline with an evolving definition. The discipline embodies a convergence of data quality, data management, data policies, business process management, and risk management surrounding the handling of data in an organization... | IT Management | Virtualization Virtualization Virtualization, in computing, is the creation of a virtual version of something, such as a hardware platform, operating system, a storage device or network resources.... | Backup, Recovery Backup In information technology, a backup or the process of backing up is making copies of data which may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. The verb form is back up in two words, whereas the noun is backup.... & Archiving | Cloud Computing Cloud computing Cloud computing is the delivery of computing as a service rather than a product, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices as a utility over a network .... | Data Warehousing / Business Intelligence Business intelligence Business intelligence mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business data, such as sales revenue by products and/or departments, or by associated costs and incomes.... |
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| 1996–2000 | Data General Data General Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms from the late 1960s. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation. Their first product, the Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer... |
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| 2001–2005 | Internosis | Documentum Documentum Documentum is an enterprise content management platform, now delivered by EMC Corporation, as well as the name of the software company that originally developed the technology. EMC acquired Documentum for $1.7 billion in December, 2003... , Ask Once, Acartus, Captiva Software Captiva Software Captiva Software is now part of EMC Software Group, a division of EMC Corporation. Captiva makes software solutions for document information processing and data capture from paper and electronic documents and provides related services... |
Astrum, Smarts, | VMware VMware VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary .... , Rainfinity, Acxiom Acxiom Acxiom is a global interactive marketing services company that uses consumer data, analytics, information technology, data aggregation, data integration, and consulting solutions to help companies conduct direct marketing programs... |
Legato Networker EMC Legato NetWorker EMC NetWorker is a suite of enterprise level data protection software that unifies and automates backup to tape, disk-based, and flash-based storage media across physical and virtual environments for granular and disaster recovery. Cross-platform support is provided for Linux, Windows, Macintosh,... , Dantz/Retrospect Retrospect (software) Retrospect is a family of backup software applications for the Mac OS, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems. Its maker Dantz Development Corporation was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004. In May 2010 Retrospect was sold to Roxio/Sonic Solutions. In 2011, development of Retrospect... , Allocity |
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| 2006–2010 | Isilon Systems Isilon Systems Isilon Systems, a division of EMC, is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA and sells clustered storage systems and software for digital content and other unstructured data, which includes but is not limited to video, audio, digital images, computer models, PDF files, scanned information, and... |
Interlink, Geniant, Business Edge, Conchango | RSA Security RSA Security RSA, the security division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States, and maintains offices in Australia, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, China, Hong Kong and Japan.... , Authentica, Network Intelligence, Valyd, Verid, Tablus, Archer |
Pro Activity, X-Hive, Dokumentum, Document Sciences, Kazeon | nLayers NLayers nLayers is a company specializing in network discovery products; software designed to map the entirety of hosts, services, etc. that run on a given organization's network... , Voyence, Infra Corporation Infra Corporation Infra Corporation is a division of EMC Corporation that produces infraEnterprise, which is a multi-tier web-based IT Service Management software tool... , Configuresoft, Fastscale |
Akimbi, YottaYotta | Kashya, Avamar, Indigo Stone, Mozy Mozy Mozy is an online backup service for both Windows and Mac users. The cloud service allows users to back up data continuously, manually or schedule updates. Mozy is known for offering backup storage space for home and business users. In 2011, they changed to their current tiered pricing model... , WysDM, Iomega Iomega Iomega is an American producer of consumer external, portable and networking storage hardware. Established in the 1980s, Iomega has sold more than 410 million digital storage drives and disks. On April 8, 2008, EMC Corporation announced its plans to acquire Iomega for a consideration of US $213M... , Data Domain Data Domain (corporation) Data Domain Corporation was an Information Technology company from 2001-2009 specializing in target-based deduplication solutions for disk based backup.... |
Pi, Source Labs | Greenplum Greenplum Greenplum is a database software company in San Mateo, California, specializing in enterprise data cloud solutions for large-scale data warehousing and analytics... |
| 2011–present |
Corporate culture and work environment
EMC is a global company with over 47,000 employees worldwide. EMC is ranked 3rd on Fortune’s list of the World’s Most Admired Computer Companies. EMC was recognized in 2010 for its IT Proven Project with a CIO 100 Award, which awards business that are creating new business value through innovation of technology. EMC also tied for 16th on NetProspex’s Social 50 List in May 2010, which scores based upon the social media activity of each company by measuring employees average activity across major social media channels.EMC has ranked on several best places to work including ones abroad. EMC was ranked 33rd in the Top 50 Best Places to Work of 2010 by Glassdoor.com. In Ireland, EMC was ranked 4th in the Great Place to Work Institute’s Best Places to Work, where employees ranked companies. EMC has also won awards for programs for interns and recent college graduates, including in 2008 EMC was ranked 44th in BusinessWeek’s List of Top 50 Places to Intern and also 66th ranked in BusinessWeek's List of Top 100 Places to Launch a Career. In 2009 Collegegrad.com list of Top 50 Entry Level Employers.
Corporate responsibility and sustainability
EMC supports a variety of corporate responsibility initiatives around the world and in 2010 EMC ranked 19th on Corporate Responsibility Magazine's 100 Best Corporate Citizens List. EMC Ranked 66th on NewsweekNewsweek
Newsweek is an American weekly news magazine published in New York City. It is distributed throughout the United States and internationally. It is the second-largest news weekly magazine in the U.S., having trailed Time in circulation and advertising revenue for most of its existence...
’s U.S. Green Rankings and 20th in the Technology Green Rankings in 2010. In February 2010, EMC joined the Ceres Network
Ceres (organization)
Ceres is a non-profit, American network of investors, environmental organizations and other public interest groups working with companies and investors to address sustainability challenges, such as global climate change....
, a non-profit organization that addresses sustainability
Sustainability
Sustainability is the capacity to endure. For humans, sustainability is the long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, and social dimensions, and encompasses the concept of union, an interdependent relationship and mutual responsible position with all living and non...
challenges, such as global climate change. In 2009, EMC was awarded the “Enable the Eco-Enterprise” by Oracle
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
for its effort to support their green business practice and reduce environmental impact by utilizing Oracle applications and reporting.
EMC sponsors programs in the U.S. that strive to improve education for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM
STEM fields
STEM fields is a US Government acronym for the fields of study in the categories of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The acronym is in use regarding access to work visas for immigrants who are skilled in these fields. Maintaining a citizenry that is well versed in the STEM fields...
) and 19,000 students have taken Information Storage and Management courses from 2006-2009. EMC is a partner of the World Economic Forum
World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum is a Swiss non-profit foundation, based in Cologny, Geneva, best known for its annual meeting in Davos, a mountain resort in Graubünden, in the eastern Alps region of Switzerland....
’s Global Education Initiative (GEI) whose charter is to raise awareness and support the implementation of relevant, sustainable and scalable national education sector plans on a global level. EMC and its employees support a variety of local community foundations and programs in order to give back to their local communities.
In support of its Supply Chain Sustainability initiative, EMC is a member of the Electronic Industry Citizen Coalition (EICC), which promotes an industry code of conduct for global electronics supply chains to improve working and environmental conditions.
EMC is a board member of The Green Grid
The Green Grid
The Green Grid is a non-profit, open industry consortium of end-users, policy-makers, technology providers, facility architects, and utility companies collaborating to improve the resource efficiency of data centers and business computing ecosystems...
, a global consortium of IT companies and professionals seeking to improve energy efficiencies in data centers around the world. The Green Grid’s mission is to help promote the adoption of energy efficient standards, process, measurement method and technologies in order to reduce power consumption and waste globally. EMC is also a member of one of Green Grid’s Alliance Partners, SNIA
Storage Networking Industry Association
An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications.The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA, was incorporated in December, 1997, and is a registered 501 non-profit trade association...
. SNIA is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping companies manage information through development and promotion of standards, technologies, and educational services.
EMC Chairman, president and CEO Joseph M. Tucci
Joseph M. Tucci
Joseph M. Tucci, more popularly known as Joe Tucci, is Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer of EMC Corporation...
currently resides on the Technology CEO Council which advocates for public policies that promote innovation and U.S. competiveness.
A March 2011 TED lecture by Morgan Spurlock, creator of the documentary Supersize Me, was partly sponsored by EMC. The company had bought the naming rights to the lecture, entitled "The Greatest TED Talk Ever Sold." The lecture covered the subject of transparency in modern advertising and marketing. The company bought these rights via an online auction on eBay for $7,100 USD. At the end of the lecture, a check for the amount given by EMC was donated to The Sapling foundation--the parent company of TED Conferences, LLC.