Michael Dell On Partner Sales Growth After The EMC Acquisition

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What has been the reaction from partners and customers?

When you combine Dell and EMC, VMware, Pivotal, Virtustream, RSA, SecureWorks, Boomi, Dell Financial Services, etc., the reaction has been extremely positive. Whether it's partners or distributors or the end customers figuring out who they're going to bet on for the future, they look at the strength of the portfolio, and that helps us a lot. I'm very pleased, not satisfied. In the first quarter, our global partner revenue growth was double digits, which is pretty hard to do at this scale. The momentum is very strong. We continue to add lots of customers. We had our largest participation ever at Dell EMC World in May. I'm feeling very good about the progress.