Dear Valued Customers and Partners,

On October 12, 2015, Dell’s owners and Dell Inc. announced a definitive agreement to acquire

EMC. As the new company comes together, we want you to know that EMC and Cisco are

completely committed to delivering value through VCE and our other joint solutions.

VCE will be a very important part of the new combined company and EMC and Cisco are

committed to working together to ensure that we continue to deliver the industry’s best

Converged Infrastructure customer experience.

Vblock customers and partners can have confidence that we will continue to invest in the Vblock

platform roadmap, ongoing customer operations and the valued customer experience. Vblock

will remain exclusively based on Cisco UCS servers, Nexus networking and ACI technology.

EMC remains committed to utilizing Cisco networking and the ACI architecture throughout the

VCE offering portfolio.

Thanks to your investment and partnership over the past five years, VCE has fundamentally

changed the way Data Center and Cloud infrastructure is deployed and operated, and together,

we have established Vblock as a leader in Converged Infrastructure. The Vblock brand is well

regarded in the industry and we will continue to fortify it.

Cisco and VCE also have long-term engineering, resale and support agreements in place to

enable our joint collaboration and business. With that shared commitment, you will experience

no change in the pre-sales and post-sales engagement with VCE.

We look forward to continuing to enable your growth and success through VCE. Thank you for

your support and partnership.

Best Regards,

David Goulden Chuck Robbins

CEO, EMC II CEO, Cisco