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D-Day: Dell and EMC create a new dawn

Opinion
Sep 07, 20161 min
Cloud ComputingData CenterDell

Dell and EMC finalize one of the largest tech mergers in history

Today marks a big day in tech history as two of the biggest names in the game join forces. Sept. 7 will go down in history as one of the largest tech transactions ever to be completed. At an unfathomable $67 billion, I’m pretty sure you will get to witness some fireworks. 

A couple marketing changes will be most noticeable from day one. Dell becomes: “Dell Technologies” and EMC becomes: “Dell EMC.”

On Sept. 6, signs were pulled off buildings to make room for the new branding.

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The merger combines all of the market share between Dell and EMC, putting them much higher than the nearest competition in most arenas, most notably in the areas of all flash storage, converged infrastructure and cloud infrastructure. 

Below is a welcome video from Michael Dell talking about the combination of the two companies.

// With the joining of two giants, its going to be incredibly interesting to see what new technological advances come from this new formation.

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Rob Steele is a converged practice consultant at RoundTower Technologies specializing in enterprise data center architecture. For more than 10 years, he has architected, implemented and supported data center solutions for Fortune 50-5000 customers.

Rob holds multiple vendor certifications and is an active voice in the IT community. His current areas of focus include hyperconverged/converged infrastructure, software-defined data centers, cloud automation, flash storage, big data, scale-out NAS, third platform, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

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