Question: Dell Technologies Inc. was formed as a result of the merger of Dell and EMC Corporation, now Dell EMC, an American multinational corporation headquartered in what state?
Context: Emulex Corporation provides network connectivity, monitoring and management hardware and software.  The company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, were used in server and storage products from OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EMC Corporation, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle Corporation. Dell Technologies Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in Round Rock, Texas.  It was formed as a result of the merger of Dell and EMC Corporation (now Dell EMC). Clariion (styled CLARiiON) is a discontinued SAN disk array manufactured and sold by EMC Corporation, it occupied the entry-level and mid-range of EMC's SAN disk array products.  In 2011, EMC introduced the EMC VNX Series, designed to replace both the Clariion and Celerra products. Data Domain Corporation was an Information Technology company from 2001-2009 specializing in target-based deduplication solutions for disk based backup.  Since its acquisition by EMC Corporation in 2009, Data Domain systems have been EMC's flagship protection storage platform for backup, archive, and disaster recovery. EMC ScaleIO is a software-defined storage product from EMC Corporation that creates a server-based storage area network (SAN) from local application server storage, converting direct-attached storage into shared block storage.  It uses existing host-based internal storage to create a scalable, high-performance, low-cost server SAN.  EMC promotes its ScaleIO server storage-area network software as a way to converge computing resources and commodity storage into a “single-layer architecture.” VCE (abbreviation for "Virtual Computing Environment") was a division of EMC Corporation that manufactured converged infrastructure appliances for enterprise environments.  Founded in 2009 under the name Acadia, it was originally a joint venture between EMC and Cisco Systems, with additional investments by Intel and EMC subsidiary VMware.  EMC acquired a 90% controlling stake in VCE from Cisco in October 2014, giving it majority ownership. Donald J. Carty, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1946) is a Canadian-American businessman who serves as chairman of Virgin America, Porter Airlines and eRewards.  In addition to these chairmanships, Carty is also a director of EMC Corporation, Dell, Barrick Gold, Talisman Energy, CN Rail, and Gluskin Sheff.  He was previously chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, from 1998 to 2003.  Carty is a past director of Hawaiian Airlines, Sears, Placer Dome, CHC Helicopters, and Brinker.  He is a past chairman of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, a former member of the Board of Trustees of Southern Methodist University and of the board of directors of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation and the Dallas Theater Center.  He currently serves on the Executive Board of the SMU Cox School of Business, In January 2007.  Carty became the Vice Chairman and chief financial officer of Dell.  On June 13, 2008, Carty retired from day-to-day operations, but stayed on as a director. Dell EMC (EMC Corporation until 2016) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, United States.  Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable organizations to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.  Dell EMC's target markets include large companies and small- and medium-sized businesses across various vertical markets.  The company's stock (as EMC Corporation) was added to the New York Stock Exchange on April 6, 1986, and was also listed on the S&P 500 index. Dell Inc. (stylized as DELL) was a multinational computer technology company based in Round Rock, Texas and, along with Dell EMC, is a subsidiary of Dell Technologies, one of the largest technology companies in the world with 138,000 employees.  Dell manufactures, sells, repairs, and supports personal computers (PCs), servers, data storage devices, network switches, computer software, computer peripherals, high-definition televisions, cameras, printers, and electronics built by other manufacturers.  The company is well known for its innovations in supply chain management and e-commerce, particularly its direct-sales model and its "build-to-order" or "configure to order" approach to manufacturing—delivering individual PCs configured to customer specifications. Dell (stylized as DELL) is an American multinational technology company.  A subsidiary of Dell Technologies, the company is based in Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services.  Eponymously named after founder Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 103,300 people worldwide.
Answer: Massachusetts