EMC and VMware consolidate data analysis and cloud computing assets

EMC announced this week that the company and its listed subsidiary, VMware, are planning to consolidate data analysis and cloud computing application assets, Beijing time, December 5 morning.

EMC and VMware are expected to merge multiple departments into a new group called "Key Organization (Pivotal initiative)" by the second quarter of 2013, and will identify specific operational architectures, the company said in Tuesday. and emchttp://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/18272.html "> Chief Strategic Officer Paul Maritz Paul Maritz will be responsible for this new department.

An EMC spokeswoman declined to disclose more information, and EMC said details of the plan would be released in the first quarter of next year.

With this initiative, EMC's Greenplum data analysis department and Pivotal Labs will be springsource with VMware's vfabric, gemstone and Cetas departments, data analysis subsidiaries, and cloud computing platform Cloudfoundry merging. This will affect about 600 VMware employees and approximately 800 employees of EMC.

By doing so, analysts say, EMC's new group could end up being spun off. "This is a good move and two companies have overlapping applications," said Kausik Roy Kaushik Roy, head of Hercules's technology growth capital. If that goes well, the new group could be spun off. ”

Alkesh Shah, Exe Shaha analyst at Buckingham Research Group, said EMC and VMware would decide in 2014-2015 whether to split the new sector. "This restructuring will help EMC better position itself as the enabler of cloud computing, and VMware can focus on the development of Software data center strategies," he said. "(D-Gold)

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