EMC, Suppporter of the Red Sox

EMC Corporation is an Official Sponsor of Major League Baseball (MLB) Japan, and has expanded
its partnership with the Boston Red Sox to support the RICOH JAPAN OPENING
SERIES 2008. For the games in Japan, the Red Sox will wear specially designed
sleeve patches featuring the EMC and "JAPAN 2008" logos, marking the first-
ever sponsor logo on the team’s uniforms. The initiative reinforces EMC’s
growing presence and supports the company’s expanding brand awareness in
Japan, one of the world’s largest and most advanced markets for information
technology.

EMC provides state-of-the-art mobile information storage, which allows Red
Sox players and coaches to access digitized video of their own performances
and mechanics as well as their opponents’, whether the team is on the road or
at Fenway Park in Boston. The system will be up and running at the Tokyo Dome.

"Just as a player wouldn’t step into the batter’s box without a bat, this
team wouldn’t fly without its EMC information infrastructure," said Steve
Conley, the Red Sox’ Director of Information Technology. "The players don’t
care how the system works, they just assume it will. If they ask to see video
on a player, they’re going to get video on that player right there on the
spot. Using EMC, we are able to get our video fast, we know it’s safe and
protected, and we know it’s going to be there."

"I don’t think there’s a player on our team who doesn’t use the video
system," said Francona, who has led the team to two World Series titles in his
four seasons as manager. "We’re trying to gain advantages any way we can.
We’re trying to learn as much as we can about the game and put our players in
the best position to succeed."

As the Official Information Infrastructure Provider of the Boston Red Sox,
EMC provides the systems, software and services that enable a variety of
traditional business applications, such as e-mail, transaction systems, and
online editing of video and other content for the broadcast and print news
media, as well as some highly specialized ones, such as digitized video
access. In total, the Red Sox have deployed nearly 100 terabytes of capacity
on EMC networked storage systems, including EMC Celerra NS40 and NS20
and EMC CLARiiON CX 3-80 networked storage systems, an EMC Centera CAS
(content addressed storage) system, an EMC Disk Library virtual tape library
system, and a range of EMC software to help manage, protect and archive their
information.

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