How Will Dell-EMC Blockbuster Affect The Public Cloud?
October 13, 2015
Grazed from CRN. Author: Joseph Tsidulko.
Dell’s acquisition deal for EMC hit the IT industry Monday like an 8.0 earthquake, and while cloud providers might have been out of range of much of the initial shaking, the aftershocks could rattle their businesses and their channels significantly in the months and years ahead.
As competition among rival cloud providers gets increasingly bloody, post-merger Dell will have the means to change battleground dynamics through its influence as an infrastructure vendor and as a service provider, industry experts told CRN. While plans for the amalgamated cloud assets have not been shared, in an interview on CNBC, EMC CEO Joe Tucci, sitting alongside soon-to-be co-worker Michael Dell, said the combined company will have the heft to help customers "with their cloud computing needs, both on- and off-premise."…
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