Dell EMC is an American multinational technology company that offers products and services across all areas of computing, networking and storage. The company was formed when Dell Inc. acquired EMC Corporation in September 2016, along with EMC subsidiaries, including VMware, RSA Security and Pivotal. At the same time, Dell Technologies was founded to serve as a parent company.
Dell EMC’s target market is businesses of all sizes. The merged company combines the two former entities’ positions as providers of PCs, servers, storage and virtualization products. Areas of focus include software-defined data center, hybrid cloud, converged infrastructure, mobile computing and security.
Dell announced in October 2015 that it would acquire EMC for the record-breaking sum of $67 billion; the sale became official as of Sept. 7, 2016. Founder and CEO Michael Dell commented that the purchase was intended to “evolve the company into the most relevant areas where IT is moving.”
Dell EMC headquarters are in Hopkinton, Mass., and Round Rock, Texas.
What are some Dell EMC products?
A few of Dell EMCs major product lines are the following:
- PowerEdge Servers is Dell EMC’s server line with choices available for a wide range of business applications and workloads, such as cloud computing, virtualization, big data and high-performance computing (HPC). They come in different form factors: R-Series for rack; T-Series for tower; MX-Series for modular; XR-Series for edge; and XE-Series for artificial intelligence, generative AI and HPC. There are also configurations for small and medium-sized to larger enterprises.
- PowerFlex is a software-defined storage and storage area network (SAN) product. PowerFlex is available as software only or as a prebuilt Dell server or rack appliance. PowerFlex is designed for high-performance storage for enterprise data center, development, virtualization and physical server environments.
- VxRail is a hyperconverged appliance. VxRail includes compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources in a single device by packaging VMware vSAN hypervisor and VMware vCenter software on branded Dell servers.
Dell EMC VxRail appliances are used in a range of settings, including virtual desktop infrastructure, private cloud, and remote and branch office environments.
- Avamar is a hardware and software data backup product. Avamar is available as a hardware- or software-only deployment.
- Apex is a portfolio of cloud native and as-a-service offerings. Apex includes things like public and private cloud interoperability, managed devices and PC as a service.
The company also has its Dell Technologies Partner Program, which is an international channel partner program that provides partners with business development, sales and marketing resources. Registered partners can sell Dell products and services including those from VMware and RSA Security.
Dell EMC market share
Dell EMC is the largest single data center provider. In 2022, it has about 19% of shipped servers and about 17% of installed servers. For storage products, Dell EMC represents almost 30% of shipments and installed servers. Dell Technologies has a market cap of about $90 billion.
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This was last updated in July 2024
