page_title: Dell EMC
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Dell EMC / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Richard Egan, Ambassador to Ireland
context_page_description: Dell EMC is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Round Rock, Texas, United States. Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable organizations to store, manage, protect, and analyze data. Dell EMC's target markets include large companies and small- and medium-sized businesses across various vertical markets. The company's stock was added to the New York Stock Exchange on April 6, 1986, and was also listed on the S&P 500 index.
  EMC was acquired by Dell in 2016; at that time, Forbes noted EMC's "focus on developing and selling data storage and data management hardware and software and convincing its customers to buy its products independent of their other IT buying decisions" based on "best-of-breed." It was later renamed to Dell EMC.
  Dell uses the EMC name with some of its products.
context_section_description: EMC, founded in 1979 by Richard Egan, Roger Marino & John Curly (the E, M & C  in EMC), introduced its first 64-kilobyte (65,536 bytes) memory boards for the Prime Computer in 1981 and continued with the development of memory boards for other computer types. In the mid-1980s, the company expanded beyond memory to other computer data storage types and networked storage platforms. EMC began shipping its flagship product, the Symmetrix, in 1990. Symmetrix was the main reason for EMC's rapid growth in the 1990s, both in size and value, from a company valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars to a multi-billion dollar company.
  In 2009 EMC signed a two-year deal to be the principal shirt sponsor for English Rugby Union club London Wasps  in a deal worth £1 Million.  This was later extended until the end of the 2013 season.
  Michael Ruettgers joined EMC in 1988 and served as CEO from 1992 until January 2001. Under Ruettgers' leadership, EMC revenues grew from $120 million to nearly $9 billion 10 years later, and the company shifted its focus from memory boards to storage systems.  Ruettgers was named one of BusinessWeek's "World's Top 25 Executives"; one of the "Best Chief Executive Officers in America" by Worth magazine; and one of Network World's "25 Most Powerful People in Networking".
  Some of EMC's growth was via acquisitions of small companies.
caption: Richard Egan, co-founder of EMC Corporation
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