EMC Corporation develops, delivers, and supports the information technology (IT) industry’s range of information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure technologies, solutions, and services. The company supports a range of customers worldwide, in every major industry, in the public and private sectors, and of sizes ranging from the Fortune Global 500 to small-sized businesses. Businesses The company manages its business in two categories, EMC Information Infrastructure, and VMware Virtual and Cloud Infrastructure. EMC INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE EMC Information Infrastructure business provides a foundation for organizations to store, manage, protect, analyze, and secure their information. EMC Information Infrastructure business comprises three segments: Information Storage, RSA Information Security, and Information Intelligence Group (IIG). Information Storage This segment offers a portfolio of enterprise storage systems and software, including high-end EMC VMAX and mid-tier EMC VNX storage, and a portfolio of backup products that support a range of enterprise application workloads. The company’s two additional storage families, EMC Isilon and EMC Atmos, are primarily designed to handle various unstructured data. As the foundation of an information infrastructure within traditional data centers, virtual data centers, and cloud-based IT infrastructures, the company’s storage systems could be deployed in storage area networks (SAN), networked attached storage (NAS), unified storage combining NAS and SAN, object storage, and/or direct attached storage environments. In 2012, the company extended its commitment to supporting hybrid cloud infrastructures with the EMC Storage Analytics Suite for VNX, integrating VNX storage intelligence with the analytics capabilities of the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite, which was jointly developed and is being sold and delivered by the company and VMware, Inc. (VMware). The company also released a new version of the VNXe in 2012. In 2012, the company refreshed the EMC VMAX family, including the VMAX 10K, VMAX 20K, and the newest member of the family, the VMAX 40K. It also introduced a technology called Federated Tiered Storage (FTS) for the VMAX family. By federating and managing other storage arrays through VMAX, FTS provides customers with an additional tier of storage, while improving the value of their existing storage investments, including non-EMC storage arrays. Additionally, to meet the needs of service providers and enterprises wanting to offer storage services to their internal clients, the company introduced the industry's first self-service, enterprise-class delivery platform based on EMC VMAX technology to enable service providers and enterprises to power private, hybrid, and public cloud services. In 2012, the company created a new Flash Products division, committed to innovating and bringing the industry's portfolio of Flash-optimized products to market. It introduced a server Flash caching solution called VFcache, previewed its future all-Flash storage array through the acquisition of XtremIO, and continued to innovate its Isilon, VMAX, and VNX portfolios to provide hybrid Flash arrays. The company has a portfolio of next-generation disk-based backup and recovery solutions, which includes EMC Avamar deduplication backup software and system, EMC Data Domain deduplication storage systems, EMC NetWorker unified backup and recovery software, and EMC Disk Library for mainframe products. During 2012, the company continued to expand the level of integration between its backup hardware and software solutions, offering new capabilities through purpose-built backup appliances. In addition, it has increased its focus on tightly integrating its backup and recovery products with enterprise applications from Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft and virtual infrastructure from VMware and Microsoft. In 2012, the company introduced new Isilon products with improved security, data protection, interoperability, and native integration with the Hadoop Distributed File System, a critical component of various Big Data environments. Isilon solutions accelerate