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Dell-EMC

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Dell EMC was a division of Dell Technologies, formed from Dell's 2016 acquisition of EMC Corporation, providing data storage and enterprise IT infrastructure products.

We dig behind Dell-EMC's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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Industry
Information technology
Founded
2016
Ownership
Part of Dell Technologies

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The Adjacency Expansion · Growth & Portfolio
Dell's $67 Billion EMC Deal: A Cornered PC Company Buying Time With $49.5 Billion of Debt
In 2015 Dell agreed to buy EMC in a deal valued at roughly $67 billion, backed by up to $49.5 billion in committed debt. The story sold was scale. The real story was a cornered PC company buying time with leverage — and praying VMware's cash could dig it back out.
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