Tucci was expected to kick off his visit tomorrow but has cancelled the trip due to "unforeseen circumstances."

As a result, Tucci will arrive in Australia on March 22, 2007, to meet customers, channel partners and staff.

The visit is aimed at promoting EMC as a leader in the information management market and to meet a host of new customers as a result of the company's US$2.1 billion acquisition of RSA Security last year.

Tucci will also meet with customers of EMC subsidiary VMWare which increased revenues by 101 percent to $232 million in the last quarter.