SAN FRANCISCO — #Dell used to be defined by PCs. Now, it wants to redefine itself in emerging technologies such as cloud computing, the Internet of Things, cybersecurity and predictive analytics.
Such is the broad ambition of the new #DellTechnologies — the $60 billion merger of Dell and #EMC (which includes cloud company #VMware) — that closed Wednesday. The coupling, announced in October, is nothing less than a reinvention of the 32-year-old Texas company.
Dell Technologies is the world's largest private tech company, with $74 billion in annual revenue and 140,000 employees. It got bigger partly out of necessity because the PC and storage markets are getting smaller.
"We’ve been on a long path to transform the company, with acquisitions over the last eight years to bring more enterprise-like qualities to Dell," says Dell Vice Chairman Jeff Clarke. "I think you'll see the speed of innovation only increase."
But in so doing, Dell is likely to find itself slugging it out with a phalanx of tech behemoths, ranging from #IBM and #Microsoft to #Cisco Systems, as well as specialists in fields such as cloud computing and IoT, warn analysts. There are dozens of companies, large and small, vying for cloud-computing business alone. With greater revenue opportunities in play, competition is higher, they say.
And, with its mega deal done, it may feel the heat to get leaner and nimbler — just as (#HPE ) Hewlett Packard Enterprise did this year with spinoffs after its split from the legacy Hewlett Packard.
"Dell wants to get bigger and compete better with #IBM," says Jack Gold, principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. "But I think Dell may be too big to manage. As Dell has gotten bigger, the big guys, like HP, have gotten smaller to move more adroitly. If you are in so many businesses as Dell, how do you bring focus to all of them?"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2016/09/09/much-bigger-dell-plots-its-next-moves/89677868/
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