On January 17, 2017, HP Enterprise (HPE) announced its intention to acquire hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) firm SimpliVity for $650M in cash. This acquisition is a result of several months of speculation that such a deal would happen. From a deal perspective,...
Towards the end of 2016, Dell EMC announced that it would contribute its CoprHD SouthBound SDK (SB SDK) to the Linux Foundation’s OpenSDS project. This is a significant move on the part of Dell EMC. It extends Dell EMC’s commitment to the open source world, and opens...
Today is a historic day in the IT industry. The largest merger in the history of the industry finally takes place. Dell and EMC merge to create the largest privately held IT company in the industry, now named Dell Technologies. The merger is historic in a number of...