EMC Information Infrastructure
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| EMC Information Infrastructure | |
|---|---|
| Name | EMC Corporation Information Infrastructure |
| Industry | Information technology |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Headquarters | Hopkinton, Massachusetts |
| Key people | Joseph Tucci, William "Bill" C. Parker, Paul H. McCracken |
| Products | Storage arrays, backup appliances, software-defined storage |
| Fate | Acquired by Dell Technologies in 2016 |
EMC Information Infrastructure EMC Information Infrastructure was a portfolio and product line of EMC Corporation that encompassed enterprise storage arrays, backup appliances, and associated software for data protection, unstructured data management, and virtualized environments. The portfolio served customers across industries including Bank of America, Walmart, Deutsche Bank, NASA, and National Institutes of Health by integrating hardware, software, and services to address large-scale storage requirements. EMC products were widely adopted in environments using technologies from VMware, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, SAP SE, and Cisco Systems.
Overview
EMC Information Infrastructure combined arrays, appliances, and software to support workloads in enterprises such as HSBC, Wells Fargo, ExxonMobil, General Electric, and BP plc. The portfolio competed with offerings from IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, NetApp, Hitachi Vantara, and Oracle Corporation while integrating with ecosystems from Red Hat, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Canonical Ltd.. EMC engaged in partnerships and OEM relationships with Cisco Systems, Intel Corporation, AMD, NVIDIA, and Juniper Networks to optimize performance and interoperability.
Architecture and Components
The EMC architecture emphasized modularity with components such as controllers, cache, disk shelves, and interconnect fabrics used by platforms from EMC Unity, EMC VMAX, EMC Isilon, and EMC XtremIO. Networking integration was often validated with Cisco UCS and Brocade Communications Systems switches and used protocols like Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, and SMB for compatibility with Microsoft Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris, and VMware vSphere. Management and orchestration tied into VMware vCenter, Microsoft System Center, Ansible, Puppet (software), and Chef (software) to enable automation and policy-driven operations.
Storage Platforms and Technologies
Major platforms within the portfolio included midrange, enterprise, and scale-out systems such as arrays designed for block, file, and object workloads used by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox (service), and Box (company). EMC supported flash technologies and NVMe integration alongside traditional SAS and SATA drives from suppliers like Seagate Technology, Western Digital Corporation, and Samsung Electronics. The product line addressed deduplication, compression, and thin provisioning and interoperated with databases and applications from Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP HANA, MongoDB, and Cassandra (database).
Data Management and Software Solutions
Software offerings provided replication, snapshot, backup, and archive capabilities, and integrated with ecosystems like Commvault, Veeam, Veritas Technologies, and IBM Spectrum Protect. Tools enabled replication across sites for disaster recovery with technologies compatible with VMware Site Recovery Manager, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery, Amazon Web Services, and private cloud platforms from OpenStack Foundation. Data governance, analytics, and security integrations connected with Splunk, IBM QRadar, McAfee, Symantec Corporation, and Palo Alto Networks.
Deployment Models and Use Cases
EMC solutions were deployed in enterprise data centers run by organizations such as Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson for use cases including OLTP, OLAP, virtual desktop infrastructure, and Big Data analytics with platforms like Hadoop, Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR. Hybrid cloud models tied EMC on-premises arrays to public cloud providers including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform to enable cloud-bursting, tiering, and long-term retention. Industries adopting the technology included healthcare stakeholders like Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic, media companies like Netflix and Disney, and telecommunications firms including Verizon Communications and AT&T.
History and Corporate Development
Founded as EMC Corporation in 1979, the company expanded through acquisitions and product development collaborating with firms such as VMware, Inc. (a major investment and later subsidiary), Data Domain, RSA Security, Clariion, Isilon Systems, XtremIO, ScaleIO, and Networker. Leadership included executives like Joseph Tucci who oversaw periods of growth and strategic transactions with partners and competitors including Dell Inc., which completed a leveraged buyout and merger forming Dell Technologies in 2016. The portfolio’s evolution was influenced by industry shifts toward flash storage, software-defined infrastructure, and cloud computing championed by organizations such as Amazon.com, Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, and standards bodies including SNIA and DMTF.