When Dell Technologies Inc. agreed to buy EMC in October 2015 for $67 billion, it was the largest deal in tech history, large enough to give Dell’s own chief financial officer plenty of reasons to reach for the Maalox. “Probably Michael was more optimistic about it than I was, to be honest,” said Tom Sweet ...

Launched in 1994, when Bill Clinton was serving his first term as president, Dell EMC’s PowerEdge server line continues to be an important mainstay of the company’s business. PowerEdge keeps on ticking along. Although the company doesn’t break out specific PowerEdge financial results, servers and networking is a $20-billion business growing at 28% year-over-year, according ...

When the chief executives of Microsoft Corp., Dell Technologies Inc. and VMware Inc. found themselves onstage together Monday in Las Vegas, it was not the first time their paths had crossed, despite many years of trading sharp elbows in the competitive tech world. Sometimes, the technology community really isn’t that large after all. “I’ve known ...

Dell Technologies Inc. unveiled a host of new product announcements today at the Dell Technologies World event in Las Vegas, leaving it for analysts to dissect the technologies supporting them. VMware’s impact on the hyperconverged space appeared to be an important influence, with an expansion of hyperconverged appliances branded as VxFlex and the launch of ...

Some companies start private and go public. Many never go public at all. And then there is Michael Dell’s company, Dell Technologies Inc., which started private, went public, went back to private, and is now public again. What has emerged from the roller-coaster journey is a company that’s approaching $100 billion in revenue, exceeding that of ...

Companies operating in the Kubernetes space could be forgiven if they mistakenly thought they had signed up for the circus instead. The pace of major Kubernetes releases, currently clicking along at about once every three months, is translating into a fairly intense juggling act on the part of companies providing ancillary services and support for ...

In the beginning, there were only personal computers. Jeff Clarke (pictured) first became a part of the Dell Inc. empire in 1987 as a quality engineer before it was even called Dell. The company, started by Michael Dell, was known as PC’s Ltd. until 1988 when it was renamed Dell Computer Corp. after its founder. The PC’s ...

This year marks the 30th anniversary of the reopening of free crossing between East and West Berlin, triggering the removal of the infamous Berlin Wall and igniting a thaw in the Cold War across Eastern Europe. Another wall of sorts came down today for enterprise customers of both Microsoft Corp. and VMware Inc. The two companies ...

The opening day of Dell Technologies Inc.’s annual user conference in Las Vegas kicked off with the announcement of a partnership between VMware Inc. and Microsoft Corp. The deal provides Azure cloud customers with the ability to use VMware’s virtualization software in managing information technology operations. Today’s announcement featured a trio of high-powered industry chief ...

The challenges facing information technology organizations today can be boiled down to three words: stale, scale, speed. Traditional approaches to managing the IT infrastructure have gone stale, rendered ineffective by significant complexity in dynamic, cloud-native environments. The scale has changed significantly as well, with exponential increases in the amount of data flowing through the infrastructure ...