Largest Technology Merger in History
Referred to as the “largest technology merger in history” by the Wall Street Journal, the $67 billion deal of Dell Inc. acquiring EMC Crop. finally came to its closing. The new company, called Dell Technologies, is based in Hopkinton, Mass. – the previous home base for EMC technology. Predicted to have annual revenue of around $74 billion, Dell Technology seems to be confident about its future. As the CEO of Dell Technologies puts it, “We plan to be the trusted provider of infrastructure for the next Industrial Revolution.”
Nowadays as we are stepping into the so-called big data era, more and more people tend to use the cloud for computing and storage, and the traditional hardware for networking and storage seems more outdated and less popular. However, Dell is one of the few companies that actually benefit from this trend, since it focuses on making generic servers. On the other hand, EMC is a pro in providing hyper-converged infrastructure, which by definition, is an infrastructure system supported by a single vendor, and itself is an integration of resources of computation, storage, networking and virtualization. The combination of two top-tier companies with their top-tier technologies has undoubtedly created a stronger company, preparing to accept challenges from its competitors.