Speaking at a Wall Street technology conference, Pat Gelsinger denies he plans to leave once the Dell-EMC deal closes, and says the Dell CEO wants him to remain with the combined company.

The appearance of Michael Dell, the unofficial presence of Dell the company, and not-so-subtle efforts by EMC competitors to crash the party helped make EMC World 2016, the last under EMC management as an independent company, a memorable event.

Sources say a VMware board member is in the running to replace Pat Gelsinger as CEO after the Dell-EMC acquisition is finalized.

Some partners who are Cloud Foundry integrators tell CRN that blue-chip stalwart stakeholders will propel their practices into more enterprise engagements.

While EMC and Dell have yet to disclose details about how the two companies' sales and channel teams will work together after they merge, Riley provided hints about things to come on the product, sales, and channel sides in the months before and after the deal closes.

Scott Millard, vice president of sales for EMC's Americas channel, told its partner summit that EMC's indirect sales for many of its key products have increased significantly over the past year.

EMC Information Infrastructure CEO David Goulden says a combination of private, public and hybrid cloud technologies is necessary to bring together traditional and cloud-native applications.

The new Neutrino nodes for the VCE VxRack 1000 drastically cut the time needed to deploy IaaS based on OpenStack, and will soon be available for Hadoop and VMware Photon.

In a Q&A session after his EMC World keynote, Dell addresses a number of topics and notes that partners are 'keyed in' on the integration and are now selling EMC and Dell together as if it's one solution.

Dell CEO Michael Dell says his company is stealing market share from an HP Inc. and HPE that produce less revenue, less innovation and less investment in R&D.

EMC Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci used his keynote speech to set the stage for massive changes at EMC, preparing for the digital revolution and the company's becoming a part of the new Dell Technologies.

For the first time in years, Pat Gelsinger, who was named CEO four years ago, is nowhere to be found on the EMC World agenda.

The new technology is meant to provide EMC storage customers with an easy cloud solution with simplified billing using Virtustream, according to sources.

CRN has learned that EMC will introduce Unity, a new low-cost all-flash array featuring unified block, file and object storage, at next week's EMC World.

Dell's new technology integration partnership with Aerohive Networks signals an acquisition in the near future, solution providers said.

With Dell in the process of finalizing its $67 billion acquistion of EMC, the company has named Pete Koliopoulos, an eight-year EMC channel veteran, as vice president of global channels and alliances for its $1.5 billion software group.

While many of Dell's channel partners are moving quickly to sign up as EMC partners as a way to be ready to take advantage of the entire Dell plus EMC storage line after Dell's acquisition of EMC closes, EMC partners are more likely to wait and see what happens.

EMC is still on the hook to report earnings, which have been declining in recent quarters as its storage hardware business fends off competition. Here's what partners need to know ahead of Wednesday's results.

Dell solution providers are signing up to get certified and trained on EMC solutions, or even considering acquiring an EMC partner, in order to get a slice of the EMC enterprise action once Dell's acquisition of EMC closes.

Executives for Dell and EMC have praised the integration capabilities of the two companies for after their merger is finalized, but executive pay is one area where the two vendors have their differences.