Overnight, chipmaker Broadcom becomes a software company, absorbing the virtualization pioneer

Company takes aim at the Edge

The military industrial complex is rather complex

Dell Technologies becomes world’s largest privately-controlled tech company

We talk about tax breaks, efficiency standards and the Dell/EMC merger

As the price of flash continues to fall, the company is going after the lower end of the market

The service will compliment on-premise storage arrays

Fast growing Japanese firm gets US foothold for $3.1 billion

Venerable storage array family is keeping up with the times

Allows customers to build hyperconverged infrastructure with a free choice of networking gear

451 Research identifies the need to train new staff on new hardware

Hybrid cloud joint venture with EMC canned as VMware share price falls

But the company says it has no plans to compete with Chef or Puppet Labs

VMware will get a minority stake to ensure that merger with Dell goes ahead

The EMC federation of companies grows larger still

And our weekly digest is back!

New giant formed in biggest ever tech acquisition 

Newly private Dell proposes the industry’s biggest ever merger

Initial targets for the Catalyst Alliance will be mid-size enterprises

Paul Maritz replaced by Pivotal Labs co-founder Rob Mee

The deal will reinforce Enterprise Hybrid Cloud strategy

Recently launched open source initiative is gathering impressive support

We are all about the follow-through in the White Space studio

Improved automation tools will be available as part of EMC’s Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

Project CoprHD is EMC’s first ever open source contribution based on a commercial product

These 2U units can scale to 1,000 nodes across multiple locations

The first day of the show in Las Vegas saw new features announced for VMAX, XtremIO, VCE and DataDomain

The appliance nicknamed ‘The Beast’ now offers more than a petabyte of flash per chassis, thanks to data reduction algorithms