Surging revenue from storage, security and virtualization brought record financial results at EMC in the fourth quarter, the company reported Tuesday.
The VMware business led in emc's revenue gains, while the company's RSA securitydivision posted a 28% revenue gain for the quarter. In EMC's core storagebusiness, the midtier product lines, including Clariion, Celerra and Data Domain, saw the greatest sales growth at 23%. The high-end Symmetrix portfolio had sales up 19%.
EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci attributed the strong results to overall trends in IT, including the rapid growth in data storage requirements.
Revenue in the U.S., which represented just over half of the company's business, grew 20% in the quarter. Growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa was slower at 16%, while the Asia-Pacific and Japan region increased 30%. Latin American revenue rose 34%.
The company's reported profit of 42 cents per share, not counting one-time items, slightly exceeded the 41 cents consensus estimate of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. The company also beat analysts' revenue estimate of $4.78 billion.
Full-year consolidated revenue for 2010 also reached a record, rising 21% from 2009 to hit $17 billion. Earnings per share for the year were 88 cents.
For 2011, EMC said it expects revenue of $19.6 billion and earnings per share of $1.07.
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