1. Dell: The New Undisputed King Of The Storage Ring
Dell in September closed its long-awaited acquisition of EMC, making it the world's largest data storage company. However, the company now needs to consolidate storage platforms. And it has to wrestle with how to build on its future-looking software-defined technology while ensuring it doesn't suffer from too quick a move away from its legacy proprietary storage business.
Remember, however, that the acquisition is more than storage: EMC makes Dell the world's largest data center infrastructure vendor. In addition to being the largest storage vendor, Dell EMC is also the world's second-largest server vendor, the industry leader in virtualization and budding cloud tech provider with VMware, and a networking and PC powerhouse.
