EMC wins Microsoft Partner Program awards

HOPKINTON

JULY 24, 2006

Information
management and storage firm EMC Corporation has received three 2006 Microsoft
Partner Program Awards for its EMC Microsoft Practice.

EMC was recognized
among Microsoft's top partners for delivering market-leading customer
solutions built on Microsoft technology in the categories, Business Process and
Integration Solutions Technology Innovation Partner of the Year, Information
Worker Solutions Award for Portals and Enterprise Content Management, and
Regional Winning Customer Award for the US.

Business process
and integration solutions technology innovation partner of the year award
recognizes EMC for best practices in selling and deploying business process
management (BPM) and integration solutions. This award is intended for systems
integrators, solution and service providers, and software developers that
concentrate on enterprise application integration, business-to-business
application integration, BPM and adapter development using Microsoft BizTalk
Server.

The information
worker solutions award for portals and enterprise content management recognizes
solution providers that help customers increase service revenues, capitalize on
new market opportunities and focus on high-value customer engagements via
technology. EMC won this award by providing solutions built on familiar programs
that enable their customers to better manage, prioritize and collaborate on
increasing volumes of information.

Regional winning
customer award recognizes partners' successful implementations of solutions on
the Microsoft platform that migrate customers from other vendors' technologies
to those from Microsoft. EMC won this year's US award by expertly developing
customer solutions that exemplify the benefit of working on the Microsoft
platform.