Following the company’s recent purchase by Dell, EMC has named company veteran Chad Sakac as president of its VCE division, effective immediately. Sajack replaces former VCE President Praveen Akkiraju, who will act in an advisory role to EMC Information Infrastructure President David Goulden.

Michael Cusanelli, Associate Editor

January 11, 2016

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EMC Names Chad Sakac President, VCE

Following the company’s recent purchase by Dell, EMC has named company veteran Chad Sakac as president of its VCE division, effective immediately. Sajack replaces former VCE President Praveen Akkiraju, who will act in an advisory role to EMC Information Infrastructure President David Goulden.

Sakac will work to drive product innovation across the VCE converged infrastructure and solutions portfolio, in addition to fulfilling his previous duties as the head of EMC Global Systems Engineering. He will report to Goulden in his new role, according to the announcement.

The decision to name Sakac as president of VCE comes at the same time that EMC is looking to fully incorporate the converged infrastructure developer into its existing portfolio. In fact, VCE is scheduled to officially become the EMC Converged Platforms Division, giving EMC the ability to offer a wider swath of converged solutions to its customers and simplify technology deployment, according to the company.

“Going forward, having the VCE team more deeply integrated within EMC allows us to leverage synergies, simplify our go-to-market and improve time to market for our customers,” said Goulden, in a statement. “EMC has never been better positioned to capture the huge opportunity that exists for converged infrastructure and solutions.”

EMC announced its plan to take controlling interest in VCE in late 2014 after it purchased most of Cisco’s share in the company.

Back in 2009, EMC, Cisco and VMware agreed to share ownership of VCE as a joint venture. Since then, VCE has broadened its portfolio with a number of new converged infrastructure solutions, such as rack storage and other appliances, in addition to its Vblock hardware.

The division is currently valued at more than $2 billion, according to VCE’s latest fiscal year 2015 figures.

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Michael  Cusanelli

Associate Editor, Penton Technology Group, Channel

Michael Cusanelli is the associate editor for Penton Technology’s channel properties, including The VAR Guy, MSPmentor and Talkin' Cloud. He has written articles and produced video for Newsday.com and is a graduate of Stony Brook University's School of Journalism in New York. In his spare time Michael likes to play video games, watch sci-fi movies and participate in all things nerdy. He can be reached at [email protected]

 

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