American Power Conversion Rack Enclosure Systems Now Available Through the EMC Select Program

		Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) is a leading global provider of high availability systems for network-critical physical infrastructure. APC's comprehensive products and services, designed for both home and corporate environments, improve the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $1.7 billion for the year ended December 31, 2004, and is a Fortune 1000, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 Company. All trademarks are the property of their owners. (PRNewsFoto) WEST KINGSTON, RI USA

WEST KINGSTON, R.I., Aug. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC) today announced that EMC Corporation will offer several APC rack enclosure systems through the EMC Select Program. The EMC Select Program helps customers acquire EMC-qualified components to more easily implement information lifecycle management (ILM) solutions. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20031003/NEAPCLOGO ) Through APC's participation in the EMC Select Program, EMC customers can easily identify and procure APC's multi-vendor compatible and EIA (Electronic Industries Association) compliant rack solutions through EMC. The offering includes models from APC's NetShelter(R) VX family populated with rack power distribution units and advanced cable management. These enclosure systems offer a vendor-neutral environment for deploying high-density, rack-based information technology (IT) equipment used to accomplish ILM objectives. Additionally, the APC enclosure systems available through the EMC Select Program are InfraStruXure(TM)-certified for use with APC's innovative on- demand architecture for network-critical physical infrastructure (NCPI). The InfraStruXure design, which integrates power, cooling, rack, management and services, allows the selection of standardized components to create a solution through modular and mobile configurations and is available for any IT environment, from wiring closets to large data centers. "Today's IT projects, including server and storage consolidation as well as the implementation of high-density computing, require a solid and adaptable foundation," said Ed Bednarcik, APC's vice president of global sales. "Through APC's participation in the EMC Select Program, EMC customers can easily configure and deploy IT equipment in a flexible vendor-neutral rack environment. We are excited about our participation in the EMC Select Program and the opportunity it presents to collaborate with EMC and its customers." "The EMC Select Program strives to simplify our customers' end-to-end storage infrastructure needs, and the addition of industry-leading enclosure systems from APC is a great fit in a product category requested by our customers," explained Tom Joyce, EMC's vice president of storage platforms marketing. "An effective storage infrastructure must be built from the foundation up. The APC systems are a key part of that infrastructure and will help our customers accomplish their performance and management objectives." "Over the last year, we worked extensively with APC and EMC in the deployment of a highly-available, scalable storage area network (SAN)," said Tom Cesso, chief information officer of First Marblehead. "EMC's storage portfolio allowed us to increase our efficiency and lower our overall total cost of ownership. Similarly, APC's InfraStruXure solution increases our speed of deployment and provides a robust and flexible physical infrastructure supporting the EMC SAN while enabling future expansion and high-density support. When you couple the complexity and significance of a storage area network with the high availability NCPI requirements of the system, it is clear you need to work with experts in these areas. Both APC and EMC met this requirement for our project." APC rack systems are available immediately worldwide through the EMC Select Program. About American Power Conversion Founded in 1981, American Power Conversion (Nasdaq: APCC) (APC) is a leading provider of global, end-to-end solutions for real-time infrastructure. APC's comprehensive products and services for home and corporate environments improve the availability, manageability and performance of sensitive electronic, network, communication and industrial equipment of all sizes. Headquartered in West Kingston, Rhode Island, APC reported sales of $1.7 billion for the year ended December 31, 2004, and is a Fortune 1000, Nasdaq 100 and S&P 500 Company. EMC is a registered trademark of EMC Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their owners. Additional information about APC and its global end-to-end solutions is available at http://www.apc.com or by calling 800-877-4080. For more information contact: Investors: Debbie Hancock, APC director, investor relations, 401-789-5735, ext. 2994, debbie.hancock@apcc.com Media: Chet Lasell, APC director, public relations-North America, 800-788-2208 ext. 2693, chet.lasell@apcc.com