Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B

Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by ChuckMcM on Monday October 12, 2015 @09:46AM (#10374404)

Given Dell's experience with buying LeftHand networks I was surprised when the WSJ indicated they were thinking of doing this. I would have expected someone like NetApp to buy EMC (or perhaps Hitachi) but the enterprise storage business has been banged around lately. When I was at NetApp, EMC were the folks everyone wanted to be, the turn around still amazes me.

I guess at the end of the day its hard to be a successful storage company in a world dominated by things like S3.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by pinewurst on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:27PM (#10375545)

Dell didn't buy LeftHand, HP did and continue to sell it as StoreVirtual. Also Dell was going to buy 3PAR but was outbid by HP, which is why they ended up with Compellent.

ex-NetApp, ex-EMC and greatly preferred the latter as an employer even if I miss my net worth at the former.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by ChuckMcM on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:37PM (#10375608)

Your right, I was confusing them with EqualLogic (I went back and read this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dell_ownership_activit...) to figure out what I must have been thinking about.

Thanks for the correction.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by yaschobob on Monday October 12, 2015 @12:10PM (#10375417)

I was at EMC for a while too (actually I was at DataDomain which later was bought by EMC) and I feel like there were a lot of storage related startups that chipped away at the best talent that EMC and NetApp had.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by whocanfly on Monday October 12, 2015 @10:41AM (#10374766)

I think EMC handles acquisitions better than many companies. It would have been nice if the acquisition was other way round (hypothetically). It would be awful if Dell messes it up.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by dmourati on Monday October 12, 2015 @11:18AM (#10375037)

NetApp is faltering by all accounts and their market cap is <$10B.

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Re:Dell to Buy EMC in Deal Worth About $67B by ChuckMcM on Monday October 12, 2015 @11:41AM (#10375198)

I know, and it makes me sad. At one time I was on the short list of CTO replacements (of the internal candidates). It makes me wonder some times about where they would be now if they had gone a different way. My ego would like to believe they would be a power house today :-) but I the storage business has changed a lot since 2006. I can't honestly say I would have negotiated that change any better.

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