Dell, HPE CEOs Debate the Merits of Their Strategies

@MichaelDell says scale is necessary in a fast-changing IT world, while @MegWhitman says being smaller and more nimble will win out. The diametrically opposed strategies that #DellTechnologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE )are taking to navigate their way through a rapidly changing tech industry were on full display the same day last week, giving executives for both the chance to make their cases. And make their cases they did, with both Dell CEO Michael Dell and his HPE counterpart, Meg Whitman, not only arguing why they made the moves they did, but also why their strategy put their company in a better position to manage the industry's shift to the cloud and the broad range of emerging technologies, including the fast-growing internet of things (IoT), the proliferation of mobile devices, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and software-defined everything. Michael Dell is betting more than $60 billion that bigger is better. The acquisition of EMC, 11 months in the making, creates a huge $74 billion tech vendor that has reach into every part of the enterprise IT segment, from the PC to the data center and into the cloud. It has multiple companies—including VMware, Pivotal, SecureWorks, RSA and Virtustream—140,000 employees (though job cuts are coming) in 180 countries.
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