EMC is assuring employees, partners and customers that the Dell merger will not disrupt longstanding relationships with other vendors, will boost R&D and will create significant opportunities for partners.
Dell's wide range of solutions includes a new reference architecture that offers the equivalent of a VCE Vblock, but replaces the Cisco UCS servers with Dell's PowerEdge products.
The structure of the channel partner business will be set in the coming months, and executives in charge of integrating the Dell and EMC's partner programs aim to "preserve and build on the best of both (companies') channel programs" Haas says in a letter.
The numbers show Dell is both contending with the challenges of a swiftly changing industry and making investments to try to get ahead of those changes. Here are 10 key facts about Dell's financial condition.
NTT is set to make a $3.5 billion offer for the former Perot Systems business, helping Dell clear another hurdle toward its buyout of EMC, according to a report.
Partners say the 14-year VMware sales leader's departure is a big blow that comes with the virtualizaton market leader reeling in the wake of the blockbuster Dell acquisition of EMC-VMware.
The institutions that are underwriting the deal have lined up investors for more than $7 billion of the $10 billion in loan exposure they expect to take on as part of the transaction, according to a Thomson Reuters report.
EMC is teaming with system integrators for its new network functions virtualization (NFV) cloud platform, it announced at Mobile World Congress, but is taking a gradual approach with its traditional channel of VARs.
Nimble Storage, long a champion of hybrid flash-and-disk arrays, introduced its first all-flash array and immediately staked its claim as providing all-flash solutions with the industry's highest performance and largest capacity.
Dell is set to gain unconditional approval for the deal from the European Commission, which was expected to reach a decision on the proposed $67 billion acquisition by Feb. 29, according to Reuters.
In a letter to employees, Rory Read, Dell's COO and chief integration officer, counters arguments made recently that Dell was having difficulties putting together the financing it needs to close the acquisition of data storage giant EMC.
Dell has inched one step closer to selling its Perot Systems business, entering into an exclusive 30-day negotiating period with NTT Data, according to a source with knowledge of the deal.
Dell is warning investors that a whopping $14 billion drop in the market capitalization of VMware is going to negatively affect the final price of the blockbuster acquisition of EMC.
Dell CEO Michael Dell tells his company's sales force that he is enthusastic about the prospects for new customer acquisition and that Dell will be in a good position to acquire still more companies.
A group of banks working on the deal, which is being led by JPMorgan, needs another 10 days to arrange the inital $10 billion loan to finance the acquisition of EMC, according to The New York Post.
EMC Information Infrastructure CEO David Goulden was enthusiastic in a Q&A with employees about the company's plans to go private after Dell's acquisition. Here's an excerpt of that Q&A.
The significantly upgraded VSAN 6.2 software-defined storage solution, combined in a new hyper-converged infrastructure software stack with vSphere and vCenter Server, will be the base of a new VCE solution expected to be released next week.
