Dell could spend $40 billion to merge with EMC and take over VMware
EMC, a $52 billion IT company that's best known for its data center storage products, has a controlling stake in cloud computing software vendor VMware, a $34 billion publicly-traded company in its own right.
Dell would take over EMC's controlling stake in this deal, the report says.
Under this deal, Dell would take EMC private, but leave VMware traded on the public markets.
Dell itself delisted itself from the public markets and went back to being privately held in 2013. Dell could be preparing an offer of around $27 per share for EMC.
Shares of VMware were down 6.24% at the time of writing, while EMC was up 5.37%.
This merger, if true, would be complex and costly to execute. But the payoff could mean that Dell gets a broader enterprise business, while EMC gets some breathing room after its recent troubles.
Dell, EMC, and VMware - which specializes in a technology called "virtualization" that helps companies make their data centers more efficient - have all been facing pressure from cloud services like Amazon Web Services, which lets customers outsource their data crunching and data storage needs to one of the e-retail giant's hugely efficient data centers. In addition, Dell has reportedly been hit hard by the sagging PC market.
For its part, EMC has fallen on some hard times. Free software like Hadoop, which can be run on commodity servers, has seriously impacted EMC's storage and data processing businesses, since it removes the need for customers to buy often-pricey software and hardware products.
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Plus, long-time EMC CEO Joe Tucci was slated to retire in February 2015, but that didn't happen. He has made no secret of the fact that he's searching for his replacement, though a merger with Dell could solve that problem handily.
EMC declined to comment on rumors of a merger. Dell has not responded to a request for comment, but we'll update if we hear back.
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