EMC is kicking off its EMC World user conference on Monday with a new backup offering and a storage array priced for mid-sized enterprises.

This year’s annual user conference will be the last for EMC as an independent company, assuming Dell’s pending $67 billion acquisition goes through later this year as planned. Michael Dell will join EMC’s chairman and CEO on stage during the Monday keynote session.

But EMC’s core storage business is likely to stay much the same in the short term because it complements Dell, said Enterprise Strategy Group analyst Mark Peters.

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