Combined sales for the two companies in the quarter before their merger closed show a tech giant among the leaders in all three cloud infrastructure categories.
In a show of bravado that was equal parts marketing stunt and surrealist street theater, people dressed head-to-toe in tight, black outfits waved large white balloons emblazoned with Dell talking points outside the site of the HPE Global Partner Conference.
In its first M&A activity since becoming Dell Technologies, Dell-EMC is selling its enterprise content division to Open Text, including EMC’s Documentum enterprise content management business.
Dell Technologies plans to cut about 2 percent of its workforce by the end of the year in a drive to trim costs after taking on some $47 billion in debt to close the largest acquisition in IT industry history, according to a report.
With the close of the Dell-EMC deal Wednesday, RSA moves into the Dell Technologies fold. An RSA executive tells CRN how that will shape the future of EMC's security division and its technologies.
Under the new system, Dell is evaluating its customer base going back three years, and customers identified as buying through partners will effectively become partner-led accounts indefinitely.
The new strategy means EMC's top partners join the Dell program with their current top-tier status, giving them all the pricing, discounts and MDF made available to top Dell partners.
Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell spoke with CRN following his company's $67 billion acquisition of EMC about the plan to bring EMC partners into the Dell program and what's next for the Dell channel.
With Dell's $65 billion acquisition of EMC finalized, the company's top executives will now have to deal with the challenges of running a privately held tech industry behemoth.
Solution providers are eager to begin hearing specifics about how Dell and EMC's wide range of products and services will be knitted together and how partners can capitalize on what is perhaps the industry's largest and most diverse portfolio.
Logicalis Financial Services has hired Paul Christensen as its North American director as it looks to customize offers for clients interested in adopting cloud, managed services and as-a-Service business models.
John Byrne, channel chief of the combined company, is likely to unveil the leadership of his channel team sometime in the coming week, according to sources.
Partners, who say they are looking forward to the cross-sell opportunities and the growth potential, have one word to say about the imminent closing of the deal: Finally.
Dell has been building an enterprise business, and the imminent closing of its planned acquisition of EMC will be a big boost in those efforts, says an executive at XChange 2016.
IBM's Storwize all-flash storage technology, which can virtualize multi-vendor storage capacity, will soon be available to use with different vendors' servers.
