#Dell wrapped up its $60 billion acquisition of #EMC, promising to provide enterprise customers a wide array of technologies that will center on cloud, hyper-convergence and software-defined architectures, with only oblique references to #Dellnetworking plans. The combined company, now known as #DellTechnologies, spans networking, storage, cloud software and, through EMC's ownership of #VMware, server and networking virtualization technologies.
"This is a fantastic day for our business," said Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Technologies, at a press conference highlighting the merger's conclusion. "We can do more to advance innovation and scale than any other company on the planet. I'm not just talking about transformation in the digital world, but the entire world."
What effect the merger will have on the vendor's networking plans is still to be determined. Market watchers expect more announcements to be made now that the acquisition -- which took nearly 11 months to complete -- is done. Dell has made only a handful of networking-related announcements in the past year, as the company concentrated on finalizing its purchase of EMC. Among those announcements were a new campus core switch and the introduction of a new OSexpected to underpin all of Dell's data center infrastructure products -- possibly including those from EMC. Dell has also embraced bare-metal switching, allowing some of its data center switches to be run with OS software from #CumulusNetworks.
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