Last week, $6.2 billion EMC announced that the Securities and Exchange Commission would deploy the company’s solutions to help with storage management of email.
The announcement is a huge win for EMC, which is seeing increased competition from IBM, HP, Zantaz and others in the records-retention market, and which is under pressure to justify the recent acquisition binge that brought Legato and Documentum under its roof at a cost of more than $2 billion.

