Dell EMC

The company's shares are listed on the NYSE with the ticker symbol EMC.

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Products and Services

Dell EMC, part of the Dell Technologies group, helps organizations modernize, automate, and transform data centers by delivering converged infrastructure solutions, servers, storage, and data protection technologies. This creates a solid foundation for IT transformation based on hybrid cloud technologies and business process transformation through cloud-centric applications and big data solutions. Dell EMC offers customers, including 98% of Fortune 500 companies, the broadest portfolio of innovative solutions covering the entire IT infrastructure, from client systems to data centers to the cloud.

Structure

As of June 2018, Dell EMC is part of the Dell Technologies group along with Dell, Pivotal, [RSA (Security Division of EMC)|[RSA]], SecureWorks, Virtustream, and VMware.

Partner Program

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Performance indicators

21% increase in consolidated income

For the full fiscal year 2017, consolidated income from continuing operations amounted to $61.6 billion, and non-GAAP income from continuing operations amounted to $62.8 billion. Thus, the growth compared to the indicators of fiscal 2016 was 21% and 22%, respectively. The group of companies suffered an operating loss of $3.3 billion. At the same time, non-GAAP operating profit amounted to $5.1 billion, which is 130% higher than a year earlier.

Net loss from continuing operations was recorded at $3.7 billion, while non-GAAP net income from continuing operations was $2.7 billion, an increase of 155% over the year. Adjusted earnings before taxes, interest, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) amounted to $5.9 billion, which is 126% more than in fiscal 2016.

Business in Russia

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History

2018

VMware bought a Dell division to prepare for the launch of 5G networks

In August 2018 VMware , it announced the purchase of a division of the parent company. Dell We are talking about the Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite, which develops services for monitoring the performance and control of networks.

How much VMware paid for these assets is not reported. It is known that they will be integrated with VMware Telco's NFV product portfolio.

VMware bought a division from Dell that is developing services for monitoring the performance and control of networks

In connection with the preparation of operators for the launch of 5G networks, they are increasing the virtualization of edge and core networks using network function virtualization (NFV), says Shekar Ayyar, head of VMware Telco NFV Group. - A quality assurance system is critical for each telecommunications network. The capabilities offered by Dell's EMC Service Assurance Suite software and services, together with VMware's proprietary innovations, will enable Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to upgrade and accelerate their network transformation with NFV after the deal closes.

VMware adds that the purchase and subsequent integration of the Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite will help telecom operators "maintain the reliable functioning of core networks, cloud servers, and IT infrastructure."

According to VMware, by August 2018, about 50 operators, including the largest, around the world are using Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite solutions.

As customers connect 4G and 5G services, reliable network service becomes critical. Dell EMC Service Assurance Suite provides operators with automation capabilities through accurate management of root-cause analysis that affects network stability, VMware said.

According to the Silicon Valley Business Journal, VMware's telecommunications division is based mainly in Palo Alto, but it is not known how many people work in it^[1]

New strategy in the DSS market - 5 key things

In May 2018, it became known about a new strategy for the development of Dell EMC storage products. CRN reviewers highlighted, in their opinion, the five most important things about this program.

1. In line with the new strategy, Dell's EMC development teams have focused on one core line of DSS in each market segment: high, mid, and entry-level products, as well as a separate category of unstructured file and object storage solutions. In the high-performance solutions sector, the company will focus on PowerMax systems based entirely on solid-state drives, and PowerVault products will be aimed at small and medium businesses, as well as customers who only need basic DSS functions.

2. The Dell EMC initiative is to develop a new generation of midrange storage in addition to families such as Unity and SC Series. The volume of these DSS segment in the company is estimated at $14 billion.

3. At the same time, Dell EMC is not going to abandon existing products, so the SC, Unity, XtremIO, Isilon and ECS lines will remain on the market. When the next generation products are ready, the company will be able to smoothly move to the new platform, CRN notes, citing a market source.

Dell EMC Data Domain

4. Another point of Dell EMC's updated strategy is to optimize its data protection portfolio. The company will focus innovation on one related hardware (Dell EMC Data Domain) and one software package (Data Protection Suite).

5. The last point of the Dell EMC program, journalists call the appointment of company veteran Jeff Clark as the head of DSS direction. He led the Dell EMC Infrastructure Solutions Group in late 2017 and conducted a major restructuring of business areas.^[2]

2017: Dell EMC and Nvidia become partners

On June 26, 2017, Dell EMC announced an agreement with NVIDIA aimed at: democratization and promotion of high-performance computing (HPC).

Dell EMC and NVIDIA have expanded their collaboration to develop technologies that meet the increasing demands of workloads and data centers. These are graphics performance accelerated products for HPC, data analytics, and artificial intelligence.

Partners have plans to develop the Volta architecture and intend to release finished products based on this architecture by the end of 2017.

2016

Pure Storage to pay $30 million to Dell to settle legal dispute

On October 19, 2016, Pure Storage and Dell Technologies announced the settlement of a lawsuit that EMC had started three years earlier. As part of the agreement, Pure Storage will pay the opponent compensation in the amount of $30 million. Read more here.

OpenText buys Documentum and other EMC assets for $1.6 billion

In September 2016, OpenText announced that it had signed a final agreement with Dell EMC to purchase from the latest Enterprise Content Division (ECD), including the Documentum, InfoArchive, and Leap product families. More details - at the link.

Documentum Sales Information

In April 2016, information appeared in the media about the upcoming sale of Documentum. EMC wants to get rid of this eDocument and Enterprise Content Management platform developer to facilitate a merger with Dell.

According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the situation, EMC is considering selling Documentum. This business, most likely, will be interested in private investors, but it will not be possible to arrange a deal quickly, the interlocutor of the news agency notes.

EMC puts Documentum up for sale

EMC has never disclosed the financial performance of Documentum, which was purchased in 2003 for $1.7 billion. A Bloomberg source claims that the annual revenue of this company is about $600 million, and the profit margin exceeds 30%.

How much EMC evaluates Documentum is not specified. Bloomberg only writes that this company can become part of assets worth more than $6 billion, which EMC and Dell intend to sell in order to simplify the merger of companies.

Dell itself, according to the publication, has put up for sale the provider of intelligent network security and data protection solutions SonicWall, as well as Quest Software, which develops network software with which organizations can improve the performance and security of applications, databases and virtual infrastructure. Dell intends to sell these "daughters" for about $4 billion.

Dell and EMC refrained from commenting at the request of Western media. The companies plan to close the merger deal between June and October 2016. Dell's debt burden is expected to be $50 billion as a result of this acquisition.^[3]

Dell merger: Record deal in IT-Business history

Dell made an offer to EMC to acquire for $67 billion in October 2015. The merger of both companies took place on September 7, 2016 and was the largest transaction in the history of the IT-Business. To finance the purchase in mid-May, Dell placed $20 billion in secured bonds - six fixed-rate issues with maturities ranging from 3 to 30 years. EMC shareholders received $24.05 for each EMC share, as well as target shares proportional to EMC's share in VMWare, whose shares are traded separately.

After EMC merged with Dell, the combined business received the Dell Technologies brand, which became the world's largest private IT company with an annual turnover of $76 billion. The staff is about 140 thousand people, the holding will serve clients in 180 countries of the world. The combined company included seven major brands: Dell, DellEMC, VMware, SecureWorks, Pivotal, Virtustream, and RSA.

"Before our eyes, a new industrial revolution begins. With every passing minute, the world becomes more interconnected, eventually merging with the world of the Internet of Things, giving customers incredible prospects. That is why we created Dell Technologies. We have what it takes to guide change and guide large and small customers in their transition to the digital business, "said Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell

According to him, the company formed as a result of the transaction combines Dell's strong position in the small and medium-sized business segments with EMC's strong positions in the corporate segment.

2015

25% profit drop

On January 27, 2016, EMC announced its financial results. The profit of the American company fell by a quarter due to the growth of the dollar and restructuring costs, which the company launched in connection with the merger with Dell.

In 2015, EMC made a net profit of $2 billion against $2.7 billion a year earlier. Revenue during this time rose by 1%, amounting to $24.7 billion. If not for the unfavorable exchange rate fluctuations, then the company's sales increased by 5%.

EMC Year-End: 25% Profit Drop Due to Currency and Dell Merger

In addition, the financial results of the disk storage manufacturer were affected by the restructuring launched in connection with the merger with Dell and involving job cuts and savings of about $850 million per year, starting in 2017. True, EMC will first have to invest in these structural transformations: in October-December 2015, restructuring costs amounted to $224 million, and for the entire year, total operating costs exceeded $2.9 billion.

By the end of December 2015, EMC had accumulated approximately $14.8 billion in cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments. In 2015, the company's free cash flow reached $3.9 billion. The manufacturer paid dividends in the amount of $907 million.

North America remains the largest market for EMC and its subsidiaries. There, the corporation's revenue in 2015 rose by 4% compared to a year ago and reached almost $14 billion. In EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) and Asia-Pacific, sales fell by 2% and 1%, respectively - to $6.85 billion and $3.16 billion.

The EMC Information Infrastructure division recorded revenue of $17.9 billion in 2015 (-2% compared to the previous year), and the remaining revenues of the corporation were brought by VMware ($6.6 billion; + 10%) and Pivotal ($267 million; + 18^[4]

Purchase of Virtustream for $1.2 billion

On May 26, 2015, EMC announced the purchase of cloud services and software developer Virtustream. Due to the decisions of the absorbed firm, the American corporation will be able to expand its business in the cloud.

The acquisition cost is $1.2 billion. Following the closing of the transaction, which is scheduled for the third quarter of 2015, Virtustream forms a new division within EMC responsible for cloud management services. Virtustream CEO Rodney Rogers will report to EMC CEO [[Joseph Tucci]|Joe Tucci

Sale of Syncplicity

July 7, 2015 it became known about the upcoming sale of Syncplicity. EMC decided to get rid of this cloud service because of its unprofitability.

EMC plans to sell Syncplicity to Skyview Capital, an investment firm, Bloomberg news agency reported, citing a source familiar with the situation. The value of the proposed transaction is not named.

2014

Buying cloud companies

EMC announced in October 2014 the completion of acquisitions of three cloud companies: Cloudscaling Group, Inc., Maginatics, Inc., and Spanning Cloud Apps, Inc. Each has the expertise and technology capabilities to help EMC expand its hybrid cloud portfolio and improve its cloud infrastructure, storage, and data protection technologies. Together with the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud product, the acquired companies will help you implement EMS strategy to provide customers with the choice and speed of implementation for hybrid cloud environments.

With the acquisition, EMC will be able to expand cloud offerings in three main areas: building hybrid clouds based on OpenStack, supporting multiple clouds with the ability to freely migrate data between them, and offering new capabilities to protect applications and data created in the cloud.

In 2014, there were rumors that EMC and HP were negotiating a merger, but the companies could not agree due to disagreements on the price issue.

6% profit decline

On January 29, 2015, EMC released a financial statement that reflected its performance in 2014. Revenue growth of the American company slowed down, and its profit fell by 6% - this was largely due to the high dollar exchange rate.^[5]

In 2014, EMC sales amounted to $24.4 billion, an increase of 5% on an annualized basis. In 2013, revenue rose by 6%, in 2012 - by 8%. The company's net profit fell from $2.89 billion in 2013 to $2.71 billion a year later. On a per-share basis, earnings decreased 1% to $1.32.

One of the main reasons for the drop in EMC's revenues was the expensive dollar, which for the American company reduces the value of contracts previously concluded with foreign customers in local currency. In the fourth quarter of 2014, due to currency fluctuations, EMC missed $115 million with a total revenue of $7 billion. In 2015, the vendor estimates similar damage at $550 million, but at the same time hopes to increase the dynamics of sales growth to 7%.

Strong dollar cut EMC profit by 6%

In 2014, EMC made an operating profit of $4 billion, while a year earlier it recorded a financial indicator of $4.2 billion. The cost of organizing sales of products reached $5.7 billion, general and administrative costs - $8 billion, investments in research and development - $3 billion.

In the structure of EMC revenue for 2014, the sale of equipment brought the company about $14.1 billion, and the service business - $10.4 billion.

EMC Information Infrastructure ended 2014 with 2 percent revenue growth of $18.2 billion, where most of the revenue ($16.5 billion; + 2% by 2013) came from Information Storage.

Sales of EMC Emerging Storage jumped 52% to $2.3 billion in 2014, driven by strong demand for products such as EMC XtremIO SSD arrays, EMC ViPR software-defined storage, and EMC Isilon scale-out NAS systems.

Unified and Backup Recovery has increased revenue by up to 4% year-on-year, more than EMC VNX. In relation to the latter, EMC attracted 2,000 new customers in October-December 2014.

2013: Revenue growth + 7% to $23.2 billion and layoffs

Total revenue for 2013 amounted to $23.2 billion, which corresponds to an increase of 7% on an annualized basis. Important components of this success were the 5% annualized revenue growth for EMC Information Infrastructure and the 15% annualized revenue growth demonstrated by VMware and Pivotal.

GAAP net income recorded by EMC for 2013 increased 6% annualized at $2.9 billion and GAAP profit per weighted average diluted share was 1.33, dollar corresponding to an 8% annualized increase. Non- GAAP2 net income recorded by EMC for 2013 was $3.9 billion, a 4% year-on-year increase, and non- GAAP2-calculated earnings per weighted average diluted share was $1.80, a 6% year-on-year increase.

For the 2013 year, EMC recorded cash flow from operations of $ 6.9 billion and free cash flow of $ 5.5 billion, corresponding to year-on-year growth in 11% and 10%, respectively. The company ended the year with $17.6 billion in cash and investments.

EMC continues to carry out restructuring, and one of the elements of it was the reduction of staff. EMC will lay off 1,004 employees. This and many other measures are aimed at reducing the costs of the corporation. The plan provides for the release of resources for $80 million.^[6]

In the first quarter of this year, EMC and VMware approved an action plan to improve the efficiency of the corporation. It provides for approximately 800 job cuts, and last year EMC independently implemented a restructuring program, which reduced 1,163 jobs.

The implementation of the current debt restructuring and reduction programs will take no more than a year from the start. EMC says that despite the cuts, the corporation will employ more people by the end of 2013 than at the beginning of the year.

2012

Fin results of the year: Sales growth by 9%, profit by 11%

The company's revenue for fiscal 2012 reached $21.7 billion (in the company's forecast of January 30, 2012, $22 billion was expected). This is 9% higher than the same result of the previous year. EMC GAAP net income rose 11% to 2.7 billion in 2012 dollars (as forecast) and weighted GAAP average earnings per diluted share of 1.23. dollar This is 12% more than a year earlier. EMC's non- GAAP2 net income for the whole of 2012 was $3.8 billion, an 11% year-over-year increase, and its non- GAAP2 weighted average earnings per diluted share was $1.70, up 13% from the previous year. The company's non-GAAP calculated fourth quarter and annual results include research and development tax credits in for USA 2012.3

In 2012, EMC generated a cash flow from operations of $6.3 billion and a free cash flow of $5.0 billion, 10% and 14% higher, respectively, than the previous year. In the fourth quarter and overall in 2012, EMC improved its GAAP and non-GAAP computed measures of gross and core profit from the prior year. The company ended the year with $11.4 billion in cash and investments.

On January 30, 2012, EMC announced the following company plans:

• Total operating income for GAAP 2012 was expected to be 17% of income and operating profit not - GAAP 24% of annual income. Non-GAAP operating income calculations exclude stock compensation payments, amortization of intangible assets, restructuring and acquisition related costs, and special software payments and amortization for VMware prior periods, representing less than 4%, 1.5%, and 0.5% of income, respectively.

• Estimated total non-GAAP operating costs in 2012, including capital gains, interest expense and other costs, are $245 million, not $240 million GAAP. Non-GAAP calculations exclude non-recurring operating costs and share compensation payments of $5 million.

• Expected non-GAAP consolidated net income is $3.7 billion. EMC's consolidated non-GAAP net income excludes stock compensation payments, amortization of intangible assets, restructuring and acquisition costs, and special payments and amortization of VMware software for prior periods of $650, $225, $90, and $30 million, respectively.

• Consolidated GAAP diluted earnings per share in 2012 are expected to be $1.24 and consolidated non-GAAP diluted earnings per share are expected to be $1.70. Non-GAAP consolidated diluted earnings per share do not include compensation payments in the form of earnings per diluted share, amortization of intangible assets, and special payments and amortization of VMware software for prior periods of $0.30, $0.11, $0.04, and $0.01 per weighted diluted share, respectively.

• The expected consolidated GAAP income tax rate for 2011 is 19%. If you exclude the impact of non-recurring costs associated with restructuring and acquisitions, share compensation payments, amortization of intangible assets, and special payments and amortization of VMware software for prior periods, the cumulative impact of which on income tax is 2%, then the expected consolidated non-GAAP income tax rate is projected in 2021 at 21%.

• GAAP net income from non-controlling interest in VMware in 2012 was expected to be $153 million, not $240 million under GAAP. The non-GAAP calculations do not include the expected costs of stock compensation payments, amortization of intangible assets, and special payments and amortization of prior periods of VMware software of $68 million, $11 million, and $8 million, respectively. The incremental dilution associated with EMC's VMware stock is expected to be $15 million in 2012.

• The expected weighted average number of issued shares in 2012 is 2.175 billion.

• EMC planned to buy back $700 million of its own shares in 2012.

Purchase of Pivotal Labs

On March 20, 2012, EMS announced the acquisition of privately owned Pivotal Labs, headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States. The amount of the transaction was not disclosed.

Founded in 1989, the company specializes in creating tools for rapid application development, the client base of the popular Solution SaaS Pivotal Tracker has over 240 thousand users around the world. Among them are startups, and large companies, including Twitter, Groupon, Salesforce.com.

EMS interest in Pivotal Labs is due to the growing need of its own customers to develop efficient web applications for mobile devices, big data analysis, and cloud architectures in a short time. According to EMS, the problem of "big data" is especially acute for most companies. The accumulated volumes of information are not enough to place in a specialized storage such as Hadoop - it is important to be able to quickly extract business-relevant indicators and metrics. Now programmers will have at their disposal the Pivotal Labs methodology, open source tools, modern frameworks and the ability to use specialized integrated environments such as Ruby on Rails.

The methodologies developed at Pivotal Labs should supplement the Greenplum Chorus toolkit for creating big data analysis applications presented on the same day. The concept of interaction between the project participants laid down in it largely echoes with Facebook and other social networks. As Bill Cook, president and general manager of EMS Greenplum, noted, his company began working with Pivotal Labs technologies back in 2011 as part of a project to create Chorus. Earlier in 2012, EMS introduced the Greenplum Unified Analytics Platform (UAP) for structured and unstructured data analysis.

Q1: 11% sales growth

In the first quarter of 2012, compared to the same period in 2011, EMC revenues increased by 11% to reach $5.1 billion, net income - by 23% to $586.8 million, dividends - by 29% to 27 cents per share. This is the ninth quarter in which EMC has double-digit revenue, profit, and dividend growth relative to a year ago.

EMC Chief Financial Officer David Goulden said that by 2014, his company intends to increase annual revenue to $28 billion - a 13% increase compared to 2010.

The report identifies two key reasons for the positive dynamics: the increase in the volume of stored data in organizations and the growing interest of customers in cloud administration software. The latter is developed by VMware, most of which is owned by EMC. Sterne Agee analyst Alex Kurtz considers EMC not only good sales of VMware software, but also applications for DSS inherited from other absorbed companies to be the reason for EMC's success. First of all, from the largest acquisition of Isilon in 2010 .

EMC says that the previous forecast for profitability and profitability in 2012 is true, perhaps even surpassing it.

At the beginning of 2012, EMC's assets, in addition to Isilon and VMware, included Data Domain, a storage solution developer, a provider of analytical tools for big data"," a company Greenplum specializing in information security the company RSA Security and a well-known player in the electronic document management system market. Documentum

2011: Record sales and profits

On January 30, 2012, EMC reported record financial performance in the fourth quarter and overall for fiscal year 2011.

The results of FY2011 were marked by the record for the entire period of activity indicators of consolidated profit, net profit and profit per share, operating cash flow and free cash - all of which exceeded the preliminary forecasts outlined by the company. This is confirmed by the measures of gross profit for the fourth quarter and for the financial year 2011 as a whole, calculated by GAAP and without GAAP, which became a record for the entire period of the company's operations.

For the full fiscal year 2011, consolidated income reached 20.0 billion, dollars an increase of 18% compared to 2010 (planned $19.6 billion); EMC's net income by GAAP grew 30% year-on-year to $2.5 billion; and GAAP diluted weighted earnings per share of 1.10, dollar up 25% from 2010. EMC's non- GAAP2 net income for 2011 was $3.4 billion, an increase of 24% from the previous year, and non-GAAP diluted weighted earnings per share of $1.51, an increase of 20% from the previous year.

In 2011, EMC generated a cash flow of $5.7 billion from operations, and $4.4 billion of free cash, which increased by 25% and 29%, respectively, compared to the previous year. For the full year, EMC increased its GAAP and non-GAAP gross profit and operating profit margins compared to 2010. The company ended the year with $10.8 billion in cash and investments.

"EMC ended 2011 with a high and record performance. Without a doubt, cloud computing is completely transforming the IT industry, and big data can have an equally profound impact on our work and life. Our customers take these transformations into account and capitalize on EMC's strategy and best-in-class solutions to unlock the full potential of their information assets, "says Joe Tucci, Chairman and CEO of EMC.

"In 2011, we again succeeded in our financial" triple game "- at the same time increased market share, invested in business growth and increased profitability. With this, we are entering 2012 in exceptionally good positions, and we have every chance to maintain our operational performance at a high level, implement our growth strategy and achieve further results in the "triple game," says David Goulden, Executive Vice President and CFO of EMC. "We expect to grow at twice the projected rate of growth in IT costs, and generate consolidated revenue of $22 billion in 2012, earnings per share in GAAP calculations of $1.24 and non-GAAP earnings of $1.70."

Throughout 2011, EMC continued to strengthen its technology leadership in cloud computing and big data, enhance its competitive edge, and increase its market share. These achievements were facilitated by numerous strategic initiatives, including ongoing active investments in research and development: in 2011, they accounted for a total of 11% of consolidated annual income. New products such as EMC VNX unified storage systems and EMC Symmetrix VMAX series systems, as well as EMC Isilon, Data Domain, and EMC Avamar product portfolios contributed to the increase in market share and expansion of the company's target segment in 2011.

In addition, EMC continued to develop partnerships with its strategic partners, which confirms the confident success of the VCE alliance and the expansion of ties with technology, solution, and service providers worldwide. In 2011, more than 1,700 partners started selling EMC products for the first time, which allowed the company to significantly expand its partner ecosystem.

In 2011, EMC planned to redeem its own ordinary shares in the amount of up to $1.5 billion.

2010: Record Revenue and Profit

The results of 2010 are characterized by all-time record figures of consolidated income and profit, which exceed forecasts, as well as record free cash flow.

For the whole of 2010, consolidated income amounted to $17.0 billion, an increase of 21% compared to the previous year; EMC's net income for grew GAAP 75% year-on-year to $1.9 billion; GAAP-calculated earnings per diluted share was $0.88, a 66% increase from a year earlier. EMC's non-GAAP net income for the full year of 2010 was $2.7 billion - a 46% increase from the prior year, and non-GAAP earnings per diluted share was $1.26, representing a 40% increase from the prior year.

During 2010, EMC implemented many strategic initiatives that enhanced its technology leadership and service expertise in enterprise data centers, cloud computing, and big data. Active investments in R&D accounted for 11% of consolidated income in 2010. This enabled all EMC departments to introduce a wide range of new products and deep innovations. The company also continues to leverage its strong financial position for strategic acquisitions targeting high-growth segments, notably acquired by Isilon, Greenplum - a pioneer in data warehousing and business intelligence, and Archer Technologies - a leading provider of eGRC (Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance - Management, Risk and Compliance) software. In addition, EMC continued to strengthen its relationship with strategic partners, which confirms the success of VCE (Virtual Computing Environment), as well as expanding ties with technology, solution, and service providers worldwide.

2007: Purchase of Verid

EMC acquired Florida-based Verid to expand and strengthen RSA, its security arm.

2006: RSA Security and Network Intelligence Takeover

Purchase of Avamar Technologies.

Complete the acquisition of RSA Security and Network Intelligence, which greatly expands and strengthens its information-centric security strategy.

Purchase ProActivity Software Solutions, a private provider of content management software in business process management.

Purchase of the private company nLayers - a leader in the market for software for detecting and plotting applications.

Takeover of Interlink Group and Internosis. Both companies specialize in solutions for Microsoft environments.

Acquisition of Kashya, a private provider of enterprise-class data replication and data protection software.

2005: Purchase of Captiva Software, Rainfinity and Smarts

Acquisition of Captiva Software, a leading provider of input management solutions.

Acquisition of Rainfinity, a private company, a developer of network file virtualization technology.

Buying Smarts, a private company leading the way in event automation technology and real-time network management software.

2004: VMware Takeover

Expanding access to the rapidly growing SMB market, EMC acquires Dantz Development, a provider of backup and recovery software for SMBs. The acquisition of VMware, a rapidly growing private software company specializing in software for virtual computers based on Intel processors, is also nearing completion.

2003: Takeover of Legato Systems and Documentum

Take over Legato Systems and Documentum, which specialize in information lifecycle management.

• See also Dell EMC Partner Network

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