For Dell EMC, It’s Not India Or China, It’s India And China: Amit Midha
BloombergQuint’s Aayush Ailawadi catches up with Dell EMC’s Amit Midha
What do you get when you merge two massive data providers and manufacturers of computing equipment ? A giant $74 billion dollar technology company and a deal that goes down in the history books as the biggest technology merger ever.
The multi-billion dollar deal between Dell Technologies and EMC Corporation was concluded last month, creating the world’s largest privately controlled, integrated technology behemoth. The merger combines Dell’s expertise with small businesses and mid-market customers with EMC’s expertise with large companies.
“We’ve got the ability to innovate at scale and invest – not for next quarter, but we have the agility and speed of a startup, but the scale and reach of the largest company in the industry,” Michael Dell, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell EMC, said in an interview. “Being private gives us an ability to focus on our customers like no other competitor can.”
But in a conversation with BloombergQuint, Amit Midha, Dell EMC’s president of the commercial business in Asia Pacific & Japan said, “This merger is about revenue synergy, and we are continuing to invest in growth. We are still hiring across the region, including India. But there will be also areas of overlap.” He added that that he doesn’t expect the company’s gross headcount to change significantly and it is poised to grow in the future.
Midha is responsible for sales, business strategy and development, operations, marketing, and government engagement throughout the Asia Pacific region.
He has spent over two decades with Dell and a large chunk of that time has been spent in China. When asked about how strategically significant India is to Dell as compared to China, he posited, “For us, as a company, it’s India and China and not about India or China. ” In the second half of the interview, Midha also explains what this mega merger means for its customers in India.