Today marks a big day in tech history as two of the biggest names in the game join forces. Sept. 7 will go down in history as one of the largest tech transactions ever to be completed. At an unfathomable $67 billion, I'm pretty sure you will get to witness some fireworks. 

A couple marketing changes will be most noticeable from day one. Dell becomes: "Dell Technologies" and EMC becomes: "Dell EMC."

On Sept. 6, signs were pulled off buildings to make room for the new branding.

And the signs are down in Cork, goodbye #emc pic.twitter.com/fJ1BgVdcBt

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Less than a week after Nutanix issued a press release announcing their independently validated ability to run on Cisco UCS, Nutanix has been booted from the Cisco Solution Partner Program. 

Cisco has its own hyperconverged solution utilizing UCS hardware, bundled together through an agreement with software company Springpath, which they call Hyperflex.

So it makes sense that they would see Nutanix as a competitor in this space and remove them from their partner program. But why would they still allow other competition in the partner program?

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Some of the best technology in the world has begun with a simple "Hello World." I wanted to do the same and introduce myself, along with this new blog entitled "The Agile Data Center." With this blog, I will focus on some of the latest technologies around modernizing data center software and hardware, as well as aligning skill sets and introducing new roles in the IT space. 

So, what defines an agile data center and why should you care? Growing up in the technology space, I've worked for companies such as VERITAS, Symantec, SAP and EMC. During that time, and especially now, I can see and realize that most companies have not aligned business and IT. While this has "worked" for a number of years, companies are now becoming quickly disrupted by startups that have successfully aligned IT and can keep up with the rapid pace of business.

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