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Dell EMC Take over

  • 12-10-2015 11:58am
    #1
    SteelyDanJalapeno
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,357 ✭✭✭✭


    Not sure what is the suitable forum for this, but seeing as they both have nearly 8k employees in Ireland, here seems as good as any.

    So Dell buying EMC for a tech record $67bn?

    How will this affect the Irish employed?
    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34505553


Comments

  • #2
    etoughguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭etoughguy


    Simple answer: No-one knows


  • #3
    TheDoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,140 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    Probably be no immediate impact, other then improving their outlooks in the future.

    EMC are a pretty well established company operating in a space in IT that is going strength to strength. There will probably be no real impact on the employees I can see. Definitly not a case of mass restructuring or layoffs if thats what you are looking for.

    EMC was a pretty decent outfit as is. Dell is struggling in the hardware space and they will be very reliant on EMC expertise to integrate their business.


  • #4
    micosoft
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭micosoft


    It's a reflection that they are not competing with peers but Market Disruption from the big cloud players - AWS and Azure. Amazon's Snowball launched last week is compelling to shift data from your expensive SAN/NAS to something like AWS Iceberg (LOL - can't believe I had to type that).

    Where there is private cloud they need scale to compete with AWS/Azure and provide hyperconverged solutions. Nobody wants to go to three or four suppliers for compute, storage, network. We want to forklift in solutions to our private clouds and manage them just like we manage our public cloud.

    Makes sense.

    HP are the big losers here. This has completely overshadowed their split into PC/Print and Enterprise and puts their Enterprise unit into the penny place.

    Cisco has enough market domination to survive but will miss the EMC part of their stack (Cisco Network, Compute, EMC Storage).

    IBM decided to get out by shifting their i386 to Lenovo earlier this year.


  • #5
    Red_Wake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭Red_Wake


    If only we'd nationalised Dell sooner!


  • #6
    Nody
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    TheDoc wrote: »
    EMC are a pretty well established company operating in a space in IT that is going strength to strength. There will probably be no real impact on the employees I can see. Definitly not a case of mass restructuring or layoffs if thats what you are looking for.
    Well there are two or three areas were Dell already has competing stuff outside the NAS area which will be under scrutiny and of course the usual suspects in Procurement, management etc. will be up for the chopping block to achieve the synergies.


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