VCE Vblock Demand Hits Billion Dollar Run Rate ree Years After Launch

VCE Vblock Demand Hits Billion Dollar Run Rate Three Years After Launch Cisco-EMC Joint Venture Surpasses 1,000 Vblock Systems Shipped, Named #1 in Market Share By Gartner Group

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San Jose, CA and Hopkinton, MA February 20, 2013 Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) and EMC (NYSE:EMC) today announced that demand for their VCE joint venture's products and services has surpassed the $1 billion dollar annual run rate milestone* heralding VCE as one of the fastest-growing companies in IT industry history and that VCE has shipped its 1,000th Vblock converged infrastructure system in slightly over three years since the company's inception. These milestones come as VCE prepares for the largest product launch in its history, which will be broadcast live tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. PST / 11:00 a.m. EST.

VCE Milestone Achievements:

$1 Billion Annual Run Rate In its most recent quarter, demand for VCE products and services surpassed a $1 billion annual run rate, solidifying VCE's place as one of the fastest-growing companies in IT industry history.

1,000th Vblock System Sold After two years of product availability, VCE recently shipped the 1,000th Vblock system.

#1 Market Share Gartner has named VCE the leader in the integrated infrastructure segment with a commanding 57.4 percent market share, underscoring the transformative impact VCE is having on their customers' ability to accelerate cloud computing adoption.

Formed in November 2009 by Cisco and EMC, with investments from VMware and Intel, VCE pioneered a new segment of the market with the innovative VCE Vblock pre-integrated converged infrastructure the industrys first completely integrated IT offering with end-to-end vendor accountability.

VCE is the only company to engineer, manufacture, deliver and fully support its converged infrastructure offering with end-to-end multi-vendor visibility, enabling the leading time-to-market and one of the lowest total cost-of-ownership (TCO) for converged cloud infrastructure. The Vblock converged infrastructure is designed to standardize processes and product life cycle management to significantly improve application availability and help enable VCEs seamless support experience.

Executive Quotes:

John Chambers, Chairman and CEO, Cisco

VCE is the outstanding result of the long-standing and successful partnership between EMC and Cisco.VCE continues to lead the converged infrastructure market and isone of the fastest growing companies in the history of IT.By allowing companies to focus on business innovation instead of technology integration, VCErepresents the future of IT. Together withEMC, we intend to lead this industry for years to come.

Joe Tucci, Chairman and CEO, EMC

Three years ago, Cisco and EMC announced that we would change the course of IT, and we did. VCE is ushering in a new era of IT transformation. Dynamic, agile IT drives dynamic, agile business and VCE has enabled companies of all sizes to realize game-changing benefits with converged infrastructure. This is just the beginning of what we will achieve in our joint venture with Cisco through our shared vision, continued investments, and the strength of and commitment to our partnership.

Praveen Akkiraju, CEO, VCE

"In any major industry transition, technology innovation powers business productivity advances. The transformational improvements VCE brings to our customers by simplifying IT deployments and operations has earned their trust and loyalty, and in turn, fueled VCEs rapid growth. Our deep experience accelerating customer data center modernization efforts positions us well to drive the next wave of innovation in converged infrastructure and converged data center operations."

Customer and Partner Quotes:

Stephen Rayda, Chief Technology Officer, Purdue Pharma, LP

The cloud is built differently today more dynamic, with virtualized resources that enable us to conduct business in a more agile manner. Today, our infrastructurecan be operated from anywhere, but that wasnt the case in the past and underscores the fundamental changes taking place in the data center evolution. VCE gets this shift and makes implementing core infrastructure more simple and pre-packaged.

Bryan Martin, Chairman and CEO, 8x8

Vblock Systems represent the platinum standard for tier-one business applications and provide businesses with the confidence to entrust mission-critical applications to the cloud.

About Cisco

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) is the worldwide leader in IT that helps companies seize the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you connect the previously unconnected. For ongoing news, please go to http://thenetwork.cisco.com.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset information in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

About VCE

VCE, formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving time to market for our customers. VCE, through the Vblock System, delivers the industrys first completely integrated IT offering with end-to-end vendor accountability. VCEs pre-packaged solutions are available through an extensive partner network, and cover horizontal applications, vertical industry offerings, and application development environments, allowing customers to focus on business innovation instead of in

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