Pure Storage CEO Scott Dietzen said Dell's proposed acquisition of EMC will create confusion and strategy shifts, enabling his company to win customers and channel partners from EMC.

Dell is in serious discussions with several well-known buyout firms about the possibility of their purchasing SonicWall and Quest Software, and with Citigroup about selling Perot Systems in deals that could significantly cut the debt that would result from its EMC acquisition, according to Reuters..

EMC and VMware's plans for a cloud joint venture that would combine the former's Virtustream business with the latter's vCloud Air service appear to be all but dead, according to reports.

Despite having some of the best universities in the world, EMC's CEO said, Boston still lags behind Silicon Valley in the world of IT.

Although many VMware partners say they believe the vendor's proposed joint venture with EMC's Virtustream business is a great move, they're wary of external factors that could slow -- or even scuttle -- the deal.

In other top stories this week, Citrix will spin off its GoTo business, which includes GoToMeeting. Also, EMC and Dell form an office to bring the two companies together.

Despite the year-over-year drop in revenue and earnings, NetApp executives were pleased with the results which reflected the transition toward clustered, software-defined and cloud architectures.

Ingram Micro hopes Dell's acquisition of EMC will allow the distributor to get back with the storage giant not long after being dropped.

After the $67 billion deal closes next year, what happens to their retirement savings? Stock options? And the most basic question: What about their jobs? An internal Q&A filed with the SEC reveals what EMC workers want to know and what EMC is telling them.

The startup developer of scalable data protection technologies has hired a seasoned channel executive to formalize and grow its channel program.

Recent reports that Juniper hashired Goldman Sachs to explore taking the company private has some partners saying such a move could be a boon to their business.

EMC CEO Joseph Tucci explains how the company brings young, dynamic companies into the EMC 'family' and retains more talent than competitors.

Despite steep drops in EMC and VMware shares, EMC CEO Joe Tucci says the $67 billion deal with Dell is 'good' for shareholders.

Bill Fathers, VMware executive vice president and general manager of cloud services, is not going to be part of the new EMC-VMware cloud services business, VMware has confirmed.

In a Q&A with CRN at the Dell World conference, Haas said that the company is doing 'extreme diligence' to make sure that there's no customer -- and no partner -- disruption.

CRN spoke with a number of partners at Dell Word this week who said they were optimistic about the prospects ahead and thankful that top Dell executives were willing to share information about the deal.

The EMC CEO is bullish about the beneficial impacts a Dell-EMC combination will have on VMware shareholders and reveals new information about Virtustream on the company's earnings call.

In other top stories, HP says it will 'sunset' its Helion Public cloud. Also, a look at IBM's Q3 earnings.

With all the talk about whether Dell can handle the overlap between its Compellent storage and EMC's VNX, it's easy to forget that Dell has been successfully managing multiple overlapping storage lines for years.

'We become a leader in today's current domain of IT -- from servers, storage, virtualization and PCs,' says the Dell CEO on how he sees the pending acquisition of EMC changing the game.