2010
EMC to Acquire Isilon
EMC signs an agreement to acquire Isilon Systems, Inc., a network attached storage systems company. Together, EMC’s Atmos and Isilon’s solutions will offer customers a highly scalable, low-cost storage infrastructure for managing ¨Big Data.¨
EMC to Acquire Greenplum
EMC signs an agreement to acquire Greenplum, Inc., a provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of ¨big data¨ clouds and self-service analytics. Greenplum forms the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC.
EMC Reaches New Levels of Midrange Storage Efficiency and Simplicity
EMC extends its midrange storage with new advanced storage efficiency technologies. This enables customers to lower costs and improve performance, as well as manage their explosion of digital data with new levels of simplicity and efficiency.
EMC Advances Virtual Storage with VPLEX
EMC announces new VPLEX technology that significantly advances virtual storage, a key element in the Private Cloud, and radically betters data access and mobility.
EMC Unveils Data Domain Global Deduplication Array
EMC introduces Data Domain Global Deduplication Array, the fastest inline deduplication storage system for enterprise backup applications. It offers inline global deduplication and a global namespace for all data stored in the dual controller system.
2010年，EMC收购了Isilon和Greenplum，发布VPLEX存储虚拟化网关，支持全局重删的Data Domian阵列。
2011
EMC Technology Breakthrough Enables Virtual Storage over Distance
EMC unveils new VPLEX technology that advances Virtual Storage and enables dramatic new models of computing. It is a radically new and better approach to data access and mobility.
EMC Isilon Delivers World’s Largest Single File System for Big Data
EMC announces Isilon’s new IQ 108NL scale-out NAS hardware project. This allows businesses to create a complete storage platform for big data workflows, simplifying management and achieving maximum IT efficiency and flexibility.
EMC Delivers Hadoop ‘Big Data’ Analytics to the Enterprise
EMC introduces the world’s first purpose-built, high-performance, data co-processing Hadoop appliance-the Greenplum HD Data Computing Appliance. The appliance marries Hadoop with the EMC Greenplum Database.
EMC Unveils New VNX Unified Storage Family
EMC introduces a new family of unified storage systems; VNX. The new storage solutions consolidate the features of CLARiiON and Celerra into a single, powerful family of unified storage arrays, scaling from entry-level to datacenter-class systems.
EMC Delivers World’s Most Powerful, Trusted and Smartest Storage Array
EMC announces new software capabilities for Symmetrix storage systems, dramatically increasing performance and simplifying the way petabytes of information can be managed. It is the world’s most powerful, trusted and smartest storage array.
EMC announces First Storage System for Backup and Archive
EMC announces Data Domain Archiver, the industry’s first long term retention system for backup and archive. This allows customers to employ a single disk-based deduplication storage system to address backup needs and long term data retention.
2011年，EMC推出Data Domain Archive，号称业界第一个备份和归档一体化产品。升级VMAX软件，支持FAST VP（LUN内分层），大大简单管理工作量。推出全新的VNX中端存储，把CLARiiON和Cenlera集成在一起（物理还是分开的），包装成统一存储进行销售。同时，VPLEX支持双活数据中心，Isilon和GreenPlum全面拥抱大数据。
2012
EMC VFCache First to Deduplicate Server Flash Cache
EMC introduces EMC VFCache, a server flash caching solution that turbo-charges performance in mission-critical applications.
EMC and VMware Partner to Deliver New VMware vSphere Data Protection, Powered by EMC Avamar Technology
EMC and VMware announce a jointly developed backup and recovery solution to deliver simple and efficient virtual machine backups.
EMC Acquires XtremIO
EMC acquires XtremIO to complement EMC’s flash portfolio.
EMC Launches VSPEX Proven Infrastructure Solutions, Completes the Spectrum of Choice for Cloud and End-User Computing
EMC introduces EMC VSPEX to accelerate the journey to cloud computing, delivering simple, efficient and flexible reference architectures with best of bread components.
EMC Leads External Disk Storage Systems Market for 15th Consecutive Year—Gains Market Share
EMC is recognized as the market leader in the external disk market, achieving 2X the revenue and capturing 2X the market share of the next vendor, according to IDC.
EMC Acquires Pivotal Labs
EMC acquires Pivotal Labs to accelerate the development of next-generation applications for start-ups and large enterprises.
EMC Isilon is Industry's First Scale-Out NAS System with Native Hadoop Support
EMC Isilon becomes integrated with EMC Greenplum, creating a one-stop enterprise Hadoop solution.
2012年是EMC的巅峰之年，其市场份额连续15年增长。另外，EMC收购了XtremIO和Pivotal Labs，布局未来市场。产品方面Isilon集成GreenPlum，推出VSPEX参考架构，推出VFcache服务器闪存加速产品。
2013
EMC Announces General Availability of XtremIO All-Flash Array
EMC announces the availability of XtremeIO, highlighting its unique scale-out architecture maximizes flash performance without compromising efficiency or durability.
New EMC VNX Shatters the Definition and Economics of Midrange Storage
EMC launches VNX, the highly anticipated new line of midrange storage systems, and raises the bar for application performance, storage efficiency, data protection, data availability and ease-of-use.
EMC to Acquire ScaleIO—Strengthens Industry-Leading Flash Portfolio
EMC announces that it has signed an agreement to acquire privately-held ScaleIO, a pioneer in scalable server-based storage software.
EMC Elevates Data Protection Strategy with Sweeping Array of New Products
EMC’s new Data Domain systems deliver 4x performance and 10X scalability while new Mozy makes Cloud backup easier to scale and manage.
EMC Unveils New ViPR Software-Defined Storage Platform
While seamlessly integrating with VMware, the new ViPR platform enables service providers & IT departments to build web scale data storage infrastructure.
EMC Announces Data Protection Suite
EMC unveils the Data Protection Suite, simplifying the acquisition, implementation and use of market-leading EMC backup and archiving technologies.
EMC Extends Flash Leadership—Announces New Xtrem Family of Flash Products
EMC announces the new Xtrem family of Flash products, extending its flash leadership.
EMC Introduces World’s Most Powerful Hadoop Distribution: Pivotal HD
Pivotal HD unlocks Hadoop as the key to Big Data’s transformational potential for data-driven enterprises and delivers over 100X performance improvement with HAWQ.
EMC Doubles Performance of Entry-Level VMAX 10K for Enterprises of All Sizes
EMC announces the VMAX 10K, becoming the highest-performing storage array in its class—and is up to 2X more powerful than its predecessor.
2013年，EMC高端发布了VMAX 10K（俗称VMAX2），中端推出新一代VNX（俗称VNX2），AFA推出XtremIO，软件推出Data Protection Suite和Pivotal HD，还有软件定义存储的ViPR。另外，收购了SERVER SAN厂商ScaleIO，布局未来市场。
2014
VCE Enters Next Phase of Growth and Innovation As An EMC Business
EMC, Cisco and VCE announce the next phase of VCE, where VCE will become an EMC business.
New EMC VMAX³ – Industry’s First Enterprise Data Service Platform
EMC announces its much anticipated enterprise storage array, VMAX, delivering new levels of data services to the data center.
EMC Announces XtremIO 3.0, Adds New Inline Data Services, Expands Family
EMC launches the latest XtremIO family with new features, configurations, integrations and programs to redefine what’s possible with all-flash storage.
New EMC Innovations Bring Enterprise-Grade Scale-Out Data Lake to Life
EMC introduces the new Isilon OneFS, new Isilon platforms and new solutions to reinforce the industry’s first enterprise-grade, scale-out Data Lake.
EMC To Acquire DSSD, Inc., Extends Flash Storage Leadership
EMC announces it will acquire DSSD to deliver game-changing performance for I/O-intensive next-generation workloads and expand its flash market leadership.
Introducing EMC Cloud Solutions 2.0: Re-Defining Hybrid Cloud Solutions To Deliver IT-as-a Service
EMC launches Cloud 2.0, bringing together a framework and solutions that provide IT the ability to complete the transformation to IT-as-a-service.
New EMC Software Enhancements Build the Bridge from 2nd Platform to 3rd Platform Computing
EMC introduces an all-new version of the Storage Resource Management (SRM) Suite (version 3.0), as well as enhancements and updates to the ViPR Software-Defined Storage platform (version 1.1).
2014年，EMC收购了DSSD，继续在闪存进行投资。CISCO退出VCE（保留很小的股份），VCE变成EMC的公司。推出新的高端存储VMAX3，XtremIO升级到3.0。推广混合云，数据湖泊和2.5平台（从第二平台向第三平台转换）概念和方案。
2015
EMC Announces Major Data Lake Advancements: New Isilon Offerings Span Edge, Core and Cloud
EMC announces its Data Lake 2.0 strategy, which encompasses new core features, software-defined edge product and hybrid Cloud capabilities.
Michael S. Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake Lead Transaction to Combine Dell and EMC, Creating Premier End-to-End Technology Company
EMC, Michael S. Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake announce they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire EMC.
EMC Extends Leadership in the All-Flash Array Market with XtremIO 4.0 (a.k.a. "The Beast")
EMC announces XtremIO 4.0 featuring new capabilities to further boost breakthrough performance, scalability, workload consolidation and automation.
VCE UNVEILS VxRACK: Industry's First Hyper-Converged Rackscale System Delivers Massive Scale-Out Infrastructrure With Simplicity
EMC introduces VxRack, a new family of hyper-converged RackScale systems that enables enterprise and service providers to dramatically simplify the deployment of scale out mobile, cloud and distributed tier 2 applications.
The Optimus Prime of Software-Defined Scale-Out SAN: ScaleIO
EMC announces new ScaleIO software with updates that deliver improved data protection, simplified management and security enhancements.
EMC To Acquire Virtustream
EMC announces that it will acquire Virtustream to create EMC’s managed Cloud services business; a key enabler for EMC federation to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive hybrid cloud portfolio.
2015年，最大的事情就是DELL宣布收购EMC。同年，EMC收购了托管云Virtstream，进入公有云市场。ScaleIO、XtremIO和Isilon产品有升级，以软件为主。推出VxRack超融合系统。
2016
EMC Unity Breaks New Ground for All-Flash Storage Simplicity and Affordability
EMC introduces the new Unity family of midrange storage offering all-Flash performance and Cloud-like simplicity for under $18,000.
EMC Launches ViPR Controller 3.0 Storage Automation Software
EMC announces ViPR 3.0 with new features and open source innovation to help modernize the data center by bridging support between traditional and Cloud native environments.
VCE VxRack System 1000 Goes "Cloud Native"
EMC launches VCE VxRack System 1000 with new Neutrino Nodes to deliver fast, low-risk deployment of on-premises cloud environments to give customers more control and visibility.
EMC Makes A Quantum Leap In Enterprise Storage, Delivers Re-Engineered VMAX All Flash For The Modern Data Center
EMC introduces VMAX All Flash, EMC’s latest all flash storage offering that scales up to four petabytes.
EMC Unveils DSSD D5: A Quantum Leap In Flash Storage
EMC launches the highly anticipated DSSD D5, which tackles the world’s most demanding IT workloads and pioneers new “Rack-Scale Flash Storage” category.
2016年，应该是EMC最后独立运作的一年。今年推出了DSSD D5产品，创造出一个新的品类RSF(Rack-Scale Flash Storage)。同时，高端推出VMAX AF全闪存阵列，中端推出新的Unity架构，没有继承VNX的命名。
从EMC的37年历史，我们可以看到外部存储发展的一个缩影。大的路径就是高端到中端，低端，然后是虚拟化，软件定义和云&大数据。EMC官网上里程碑的事情很多，我只是节选了我认为比较重要的东西，分享给大家。
在软件定义的大潮下，外部存储已经过了鼎盛时期，就算有全闪存阵列也无济于事。但存储无处不在，内部存储也是存储，基本需要都是一样，即存得进去，取得出来，成本低，性能好。因此，我们学存储的，也没有啥可悲哀的，只是存储的形态发生变化，我们跟上就是了。
这篇文章我写了两个晚上，一直想放到一篇文章里未果。文章很长，大家可以利用微信的收藏功能，需要的时候再翻看。
虽然用致青春这个题目，其实我刚毕业主要做集成，虽然用了很多存储产品，但EMC用得不多，后来去原厂做网络，再转行做的存储。但不知为什么，第一时间还是想到致青春这首歌，就这个标题吧。