Empowers Customers to Automate Visibility and Control Across their Physical and Virtual Data Centers HOPKINTON, Mass., May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Configuresoft, Inc.

Virtualization Security Expert Dave Shackleford to Address Cost, Configuration and Change Management across the Virtualized Data Center COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Configuresoft, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise server configuration management solutions for physical and virtual environments, today announced the following special appearance by Configuresoft virtualization technology experts: WHO: Dave Shackleford, Configuresoft Chief Security Officer and Director of the Center for Policy & Compliance WHAT: Presentation: "Managing Costs, Configuration & Change across the Virtualized Data Center" WHEN: 1:15 - 2:15 p.m.

Recognized ITIL Expert and SANS Instructor George Gerchow to Outline Hints for Optimizing ITIL investments to Enhance Efficiency and Performance COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Configuresoft, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise server configuration management solutions for physical and virtual environments, today announced the following special appearance by Configuresoft virtualization technology experts: WHO: George Gerchow, ITIL, CISSP, CCNA, MCPS, SCP, director of corporate strategy, Configuresoft WHAT: Panelist at itSMF Minnesota Session Title: "How can members get more out of their current ITIL investment to improve the company 'bottom lines'?" Topics to be covered include: merging an ITIL initiative with Six Sigma to achieve service efficiency, identifying key business objective and key performance indicators, building a balanced IT scorecard, selecting a process and measuring its efficacy and how to optimize service configurations to minimize both support

Virtualization Security Expert Dave Shackleford to Discuss New Concerns and New Tools for Securing Virtual Environments COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Configuresoft, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise server configuration management solutions for physical and virtual environments, today announced the following special appearance by Configuresoft virtualization technology expert: WHO: Dave Shackleford, Chief Security Officer, Configuresoft WHAT: Panelist at Virtualization Congress 2009 Session Title: "Securing the Virtual Data Center (on Earth and on Clouds)" Other panelists include Christofer Hoff, Chief Security Architect with Unisys; Michael Berman, CTO with Catbird; moderator is Alessandro Perilli, founder of virtualization.info. WHEN: 5:00 p.m.

George Gerchow Leads ITIL Essentials for Security Management Course to Prepare Students for ITIL Foundations Exam, Service Delivery and Support Functions COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Configuresoft, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise server configuration management solutions, today announced that Configuresoft Director of Corporate Strategy and recognized expert in IT configuration and systems architecture George Gerchow, ITIL, CISSP, CCNA, MCPS, SCP, has authored an intensive, accelerated course in ITIL for security management for the highly-regarded SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute.