HPE Storage GM FUD (**FEAR UNCERTAINTY DOUBT**): Dell-EMC Are Two 'Declining' Companies Struggling In Full-Stack Converged Infrastructure Era

Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE )Senior Vice President and General Manager Manish Goel Tuesday characterized #Dell - #EMC as "two declining" companies struggling to make it in the full-stack converged composable infrastructure era.

"If you take two declining companies and put them together, they still remain two declining companies that will decline faster together," said Goel in an interview with CRN at the HPE Discover conference in Las Vegas. "There is just going to be a ton of uncertainty [as they merge]. Regardless of any strategy, any execution, one thing is undeniable: All the focus of Dell-EMC for the next 18 to 24 months will be inward, not on their customers, not on their partners."

Goel's comments come amid an all-out HPErecruiting blitz aimed at bringing Dell-EMC partners into the HPE fold. As part of that drive, HPE has invited several hundred Dell-EMC partners to private meetings at Discover aimed at getting those partners to sell the HPE product portfolio.

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