ILM has allowed EMC to meet, even exceed the company's major financial targets for the past 12 quarters. ILM, being EMC's core strategy, aligns IT infrastructure with the business based on the changing value of information.

With the success of ILM, EMC invested US$1 billion in research to develop more solutions to directly access their customer's information infrastructure needs. Ronnie Latinazo, country manager of EMC Philippines, said that the fruit of this investment is the most prolific new product rollout in the company's history. 'The competition for the dollar intensifies. EMC is investing heavily in R&D because we believe that we need a way to truly differentiate ourselves from the others in the market.'

'Along with beefing up our product lineup, EMC also leveraged its balance sheet to strengthen its core offerings and expand into new markets to serve customers through its acquisitions,' said Latinazo. The acquisition of Smarts, for example, helped form the foundation of EMC's resource management strategy. Buying Rainfinity made EMC's NAS and file system virtualization solutions more robust. The merger with Acartus enhanced EMC's records management solutions. On top of that, EMC expressed their intention to acquire Captiva Software to further extend their enterprise content management capabilities.

The company also upgraded each of its platforms. 'This move is to deliver a strengthened foundation for our customers' ILM implementations. We unveiled our highest-capacity system to date, the EMC Symmetrix DMX-3, and the world's highest performing NAS system, the EMC Celerra NSX,' said Latinazo.

EMC continued to capitalize on the growing demand for backup to disk with the EMC CLARiiON Disk Libraries and helped smaller customers wrestle with fixed content with a new entry-level version of EMC Centera as well.