What’s in a name: Introducing Dell Technologies

Tomorrow is Dell’s 32nd birthday, and today, I took the stage at EMC World to stand in front of 14,000 customers, partners, users and developers. What an honor it was to speak with them about creating their most important technology partner.                                                                       

I also announced that after the close of the transaction to combine Dell and EMC, our family of businesses will officially be known as Dell Technologies.

Dell Technologies will include the combined technologies, companies and brands of Dell, EMC II, VMware, Pivotal, SecureWorks, RSA and Virtustream. Our PC business will be branded Dell, and our combined enterprise business will be named Dell EMC. 

Our vision is for a strategically aligned family of businesses that brings together the entire infrastructure from hardware to software to services -- from the edge to the data center to the cloud. Dell Technologies becomes the leader in the traditional technology of today and cloud-native infrastructure of tomorrow.

And it’s the promise of tomorrow that gets me the most excited. We are just beginning to experience the potential of the Internet of Everything, an intelligent world pulsing with unprecedented, ubiquitous processing power and connectivity.

• We’re moving beyond automated industrial processes to automated complex tasks.
• Virtual Reality and augmented reality will redefine work, learning and play, while whole new ways of living and doing business open up before our eyes.
• Artificial intelligence will amplify human creativity, unleashing a torrent of innovation -- and the ability to solve some our world’s greatest challenges.

It’s been called the next industrial revolution, a future of infinite possibility. And we are building Dell Technologies to be the essential technology infrastructure company that stands at the center of the next quantum leap in human progress.

It’s hard to believe the success we’ve had during the last 32 years. Our little startup has generated more than $935 billion in cumulative revenue, and we’ve invested in our team members, our capabilities and innovation to create ever more customer value. Now with the EMC transaction moving forward as planned, I think we’re about to get a whole lot bigger and able to do a whole lot more for customers.

Happy 32nd birthday to our customers, partners and team members past and present. You better believe the best is yet to come.