On October 12, 2015 (August 30, 2015 in the lunar calendar), Dell acquired EMC. Dell and EMC On October 12, 2015, according to Bloomberg News, Dell has agreed to acquire data storage giant EMC for approximately US$67 billion, making it the largest M & A transaction in the history of the technology industry. The deal would create an enterprise computing giant that leverages a broader product line to attract customers at a time of slowing demand and intensifying competition. EMC is a technology company founded in the United States in 1979. It is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. It mainly provides data storage, information security, virtualization, cloud computing and other products used to store, manage, protect and analyze large amounts of data. and services. The company name is taken from the initials of the last names of the four founders, RichardEgan, Roger Marino, Connelly, and Curly. The company logo (EMC2) also means Einstein's mass-energy equation, and its Chinese name is "Yi Anxin." EMC went public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1986. In 2003, it acquired the famous virtualization software company VMWare for US$625 million in cash. However, the latter has always maintained independent operations and is in better condition than EMC itself, which led EMC to consider selling itself to VMWare. EMC's 2013 turnover was US$23.2 billion, net profit was US$2.9 billion, and the total number of employees was approximately 60,000 as of the end of 2012. Today, EMC includes four enterprise-level businesses: EMC2 is the data storage business, VMWare is the virtualization software business, Pivotal is the big data analysis and pre-cloud computing business, and RSA is the digital security software business. EMC is still the world's largest provider of data storage platforms, directly competing with companies such as IBM, NetApp, HP and Hitachi Data Systems. At the same time, it forms a server troika with IBM and Oracel, the so-called IOE. Dell is currently the world's third-largest PC manufacturer, and its enterprise services business is only one-third of the value of its PC business. Dell's move marks the company's beginning to expand from the consumer market to a fast-growing and favorable enterprise-level market.