Joe Tucci focuses a large portion of EMC's third-quarter earnings call on expectations for its cloud services joint business with VMware, as revenue comes in up less than 1 percent year over year.
EMC CEO Joe Tucci attempted to calm down partners and investors during the company's quarterly earnings call Wednesday morning, saying that VMware will be "vital" to Dell-EMC's success in the future.
With VMware shares down 16 percent and softer-than-expected bookings in the current quarter, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company is well positioned for the future as part of Dell-EMC.
The hottest conversation at Dell's annual conference in Austin, Texas this week is how EMC solution providers can cozy up to Dell in the wake of Dell"s $67 billion acquisition of the storage market leader.
Last week's announcement that data storage giant EMC will be acquired by Dell triggers the change-in-control clauses in the employment agreements of EMC's six top "named executives," resulting in big paydays for key players if they leave the company.
EMC and Dell had a messy divorce in 2011, which is going to be one of the obstacles to the integration of the two companies, according to EMC solution providers.
In a joint statement to customers and partners, Cisco's Chuck Robbins and EMC's David Goulden vow that 'VCE will be a very important part of the new combined company.'
Partners said they were surprised the vendor didn't take advantage of the NetApp Insight stage to talk about its strategy in the face of the blockbuster deal.
VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger, in an email sent to partners Tuesday, tries to calm any fears the channel may have about the impact the Dell-EMC deal could have on their businesses.
As the dust settles from the blockbuster Dell-EMC deal, partners of VMware and Microsoft have different views on what will happen if Michael Dell decides to keep VMware as opposed to spinning it off.
With Dell's blockbuster announcement earlier this week of its intent to acquire RSA parent EMC, the question remains what the combined tech giants have in store for their security partners.
A top EMC executive tells CRN that EMC's Cisco relationship and key parts of the EMC Federation are likely to survive because of the importance of customer choice, and that talk of a culture clash is premature.
Just hours after Dell announced its acquisition of EMC, a top executive with HP Inc. told Best of Breed conference attendees that the vendor is targeting small and mid-size customers with a new PC and printer offensive. Via ITBestOfBreed.com
The blockbuster news of Dell's bid to acquire EMC and VMware for $67 billion has sent some investors running for the exits, but are their fears warranted?
