Contacts | Cookie Policy You are in: Company » News » Dell buys Emc for $ 67 billion: this is how the largest IT company on the planet was born The wedding had been announced a few days ago and the confirmation arrived promptly: Dell puts on the plate an investment of 67 billion dollars and with the acquisition of Emc it brings home one of the world's leading suppliers of business-class data storage solutions . The monstrous figure, the largest in the history of information technology, arises from a substantial enhancement of the so-called “tracking stocks” (shares that follow the performance of a division) attributable to the subsidiary VMware (80% owned by EMC). The latter remains substantially out of the deal and will continue to operate as an independent and listed company. Having said this, and remembering how an important part in the operation was played by the Silver Lake investment fund (the same that led Dell's return to a private company), it must immediately be noted that the purchase price (set at $ 33.15 per share) is according to analysts about a quarter higher than the actual value of the Emc shares before rumors about a possible acquisition began to circulate. Numbers in hand VMware's capitalization is estimated at $ 33 billion and the EMC as a whole has a market value of $ 53.6 billion. Can we therefore speak of a real deal, given that the operation will only be closed in the accounts in several months? And, anyway, why did the Texan manufacturer, the world's third largest computer vendor, decide to sink the blow despite having just under $ 12 billion in debt? The reasons are obviously more than one. Meanwhile, it can be seen that Dell has long been committed to diversifying its business, focusing with extreme decision on the enterprise market and in particular on servers and solutions for data centers. Emc's rich menu of storage and virtualization technologies combine on paper perfectly with the current offering, which would become so comprehensive and unmatched by the competition. The catchphrase of the moment is called "digital transformation" and Michael Dell is convinced that the new company has all the requisites to accompany the necessary innovation path of companies both in the digital field but also (indeed above all) in the areas of hybrid cloud, data software, mobile and security defined centers. Hp, Ibm, History shows, however, that not all mega mergers - we remember among these Hewlett Packard with Compaq, the same HP with Eds-Electronic Data Systems and Oracle with Sun Microsystems - succeed with the hole and a good deal is found. We'll see. Source: www.ilsole24ore.com © 2013 - Project Adriatic Registered office - Via G. Antonio Zani, 1-48122 RAVENNA - Tel. 0544.289856 - fax 0544.289910 antonio.blandino@projectadriatica.it Register of Ravenna CF Enterprise and IVA 02451430397 Share Capital € 20,000 WEEE No. . IT12110000007747 REA Ravenna no. 202962