As one heavyweight bulks up on the assets of a rival, a welterweight sheds its stock in pursuit of leanness.

Consequently, a defining week for the channel is emerging, as the warring Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise prepare to solidify respective go-to-market strategies.

In Dell’s case, its upcoming multi-billion dollar acquisition of EMC will be finalised on September 7, creating the world’s largest privately-controlled, integrated technology company in the process.

Meanwhile, speculation is intensifying that HPE is on the verge of selling its software division to private equity firm Thomas Bravo, in a move designed to allow the vendor to focus on its core offerings around servers, networking, storage, business critical systems and technology services.

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