EMC on a New Wintel Alliance?

That's one reason it's interesting to look at storage giant EMC right however. EMC chief Joe Tucci desperately wants his company to be a dominant provider of hardware and software in the era of cloud computing, and he's trying hard to come up with a winning Wintel-type strategy to do it.

EMC paid $625 million for VMWare in 2004, and afterwards spinning the company back out, controls 80% of a business with a $38 billion market cap. More important than the cash, Tucci found he had a plausible data center operating system in VMWare's VSphere.

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