Dell-EMC Federation, stardate 11254.7: What about the storage?

Some of this is simple

Equallogic was already on its way out from Dell. They will likely also kill their PowerVault line of rebadged Netapp E-series (again, already in progress). That plan will progress as planned, potentially slightly accelerated. Dell Fluid FS seems to be in some ways superior to VNX Unified/Gateway, and so may shuffle in there, as it's already backend agnostic. Dell has nothing to compete with VMAX, Isilon, DSSD, or Xtremio, so no real changes there. EMC is used to and comfortable with some product overlap (EMC Networker vs Avamar, Isilon/VNX file, LARGE VNX and VMAXe, or going backwards, Clariion & Celerra iSCSI).

VPLEX will be the real hero here, frontending VNX, Compellent, & VMAX arrays and providing a huge boost in resiliency to the Dell arrays over Live Volume.

The Dell DR appliances will complement the Data Domain ones, and I expect they'll take some of the Ocarina patents and run with them, eventually merging the product lines. On the software side, the Dell backup products are probably not long for this world, due to poor customer feedback. I'd expect some of their features to be rolled into other products and then they'll be quietly killed, or they'll be sold off to help fund the acquisition, as has been rumored before.