EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that TheStreet.com, a leading independent multimedia provider of business, investment and financial ratings content, has enhanced the performance, ease of manageability and availability of information delivered via its storage infrastructure through its use of advanced storage management solutions from EMC.

Averaging more than five million unique site visitors per month at the end of the second quarter of 2007, TheStreet.com provides a breadth of paid and free financial and business news services designed to help individuals make more informed financial decisions. The Company also provides custom solutions for advertisers who look to TheStreet.com for access to its affluent demographic. With so many audiences looking to TheStreet.com for superior multimedia viewership and advertising experiences, it’s critical that the Company’s web portal deliver high availability for the site content hosted within including a file repository that has expanded to more than five million files.

Prior to implementing EMC storage solutions, TheStreet.com was leveraging a combination of direct-attached storage (DAS) for general purpose storage and Network Appliance storage systems to store critical website content via network-attached storage (NAS). As TheStreet.com’s file storage repository continued to grow, however, its IT managers observed a marked degradation in storage system performance and information availability.

“Consolidating our direct-attached storage was an easy decision, as we were experiencing poor capacity utilization, and file sharing was impossible with this model,” said Steve Garrett, manager of technical operations at TheStreet.com. “Our bigger challenge was our NAS infrastructure, which was struggling to keep pace with a massive file repository that was growing quickly. It was clear that we needed to upgrade our storage infrastructure and consolidate our distributed storage resources. That’s where EMC came in.”

TheStreet.com deployed an EMC CLARiiON® storage system to consolidate and store its Oracle database information, previously hosted on server-attached storage running Solaris. It then implemented a second CLARiiON system to consolidate its SQL-based storage, also hosted on server-attached storage (Windows), and networked these systems via a Fibre Channel storage-area network (SAN) leveraging EMC Connectrix® switches.

For phase two of this implementation, TheStreet.com replaced its Network Appliance filers with two EMC Celerra® NS gateways, replicating to each other for high performance file serving via the company’s SAN. The new CLARiiON and Celerra systems enabled TheStreet.com to eliminate stranded islands of storage by consolidating SAN and NAS into a single infrastructure, significantly reducing the complexity of management and backup.

“With EMC, our storage infrastructure delivers performance that is both reliable and predictable,” continued Garrett. “By resolving the fragmentation issues inherent to the filers we were using previously, file recall times have dropped from days to minutes, and website loading times have improved significantly, to the point where site visitors noticed the change. Also, the migration from the old systems to the new EMC systems was absolutely seamless. We executed the transition without the website ever going down.”

Celerra affords TheStreet.com a new level of flexibility. The Company is better enabled to tune its systems, is better equipped for advanced performance monitoring and log auditing, and is no longer locked into a rigid RAID protection scheme. Additionally, the faster site has meant more traffic, increased time spent on the site and more impressions for TheStreet.com’s advertisers.

According to Garrett, “Now we’re running twice as fast as we used to be. We’ve retired our Network Appliance filers from production and have never looked back.”

About TheStreet.com, Inc.
TheStreet.com, Inc. (Nasdaq: TSCM) is a leading multimedia provider of business, investment and ratings content, available through its proprietary properties, which include Web sites, email subscription services, print, syndication and audio and video programming. Founded in 1996, TheStreet.com, Inc. pioneered the electronic publishing of financial information on the Internet. Today, the Company offers proprietary information on stocks, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and financial institutions, including various insurers; HMOs; Blue Cross Blue Shield plans; banks and savings and loans. The Company’s breadth of top-grade services empowers a wide audience of retail and professional investors, by delivering information they can rely upon to make sound, informed financial decisions.

About EMC
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.EMC.com