EMC World 2016: Digital revolution ringing in innovation and change

Michael Dell, CEO and chairman of Dell and Joe Tucci, chairman and CEO of EMC, address a Q&A session at Palazzo Venetian Convention Center in Las Vegas.

LAS VEGAS: After the merger of Dell Inc. and EMC Corp., a new company called Dell Technologies will be formed.
This was announced by Michael Dell, CEO and chairman of Dell, while delivering the keynote address at EMC World 2016 at Palazzo Venetian Convention Center here.
“After their merger Dell and EMC will revolutionize the IT industry with innovation,” Dell added.
At the EMC World 2016, Joe Tucci, chairman and CEO of EMC, and Dell shared their vision of what lies ahead for the marketplace, for enterprise IT and the combination of EMC and Dell.
About 10,000 IT and media professionals are attending the EMC World 2016.
Dell said the merged entity will include a family of brands called Dell, EMC, VMware, Pivotal, SecureWorks, RSA, and virtue Stream.
The company’s combined enterprise business will be named Dell EMC.
About the over $60 billion merger, Tucci said: “Something great, something truly special will emerge out of the two major companies coming together.”
He said everyone should to be prepared for the coming digital revolution in terms of innovation and change.
Tucci got a standing ovation from EMC and Dell employees when he announced that he was stepping down from the EMC position.
David Goulden, CEO of EMC information infrastructure, said: “The IT industry is in a state of massive transformation, resulting in both disruption and great opportunity. Every business leader, across every industry, is facing the dilemma of how to support and grow traditional IT infrastructure while modernizing the data center in order to support the development of new applications and advance their digital agendas. Some are doing all of this simultaneously. “
EMC, meanwhile, announced multiple  new modern data center products and services fundamental to customers’ modern data center transformation initiatives. This transformation is leading to complex data center priorities: maintaining traditional business applications as efficiently and in a low-cost manner as possible without compromising service integrity, and using those savings to support next-generation application development needs. 
EMC introduced the new EMC Unity family of all-flash storage; Virtustream storage loud platform; EMC MyService360 service-centric online dashboard, EMC Enterprise Copy Data Management (eCDM) and ViPR Controller 3.0. 
Goulden said the products and services announced Monday will help advance the customer’s journey to build a modern data center in order to thrive as a digital business.
EMC also has declared 2016 the Year of All-Flash for primary storage, and expanded its market-leading all-flash portfolio with the new EMC Unity family of storage arrays. The new all-flash array, ideal for small and medium-size IT deployments, sets the new standard for simplicity, affordability and flexibility.
It is available in all-flash, hybrid, converged and software-defined configurations and is designed to help customers make an affordable and simple transition from disk to flash.