Editing Dell (section)

===Partnership with EMC===
In 2001, Dell and EMC entered into a partnership whereby both companies jointly design products, and Dell provided support for certain EMC products including midrange storage systems, such as [[fibre channel]] and [[iSCSI]] [[storage area network]]s. The relationship also promotes and sells OEM versions of backup, recovery, replication and archiving software.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.emc.com/about/news/press/us/2001/20011022-1125.htm | title=Dell, EMC Sign Multi-Billion-Dollar Enterprise Storage Agreement | publisher=[[Dell EMC]] | date=October 22, 2001}}</ref> On December 9, 2008, Dell and EMC announced the multi-year extension, through 2013, of the strategic partnership with EMC. In addition, Dell expanded its product lineup by adding the EMC Celerra NX4 storage system to the portfolio of Dell/EMC family of networked storage systems and partnered on a new line of [[data deduplication]] products as part of its TierDisk family of [[data storage device]]s.<ref>{{cite press release | url=https://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2008/20081209-01.htm |title=Dell, EMC Extend and Expand Strategic Alliance | publisher=[[Dell EMC]] | date=December 9, 2008}}</ref>

On October 17, 2011, Dell discontinued reselling all EMC storage products, ending the partnership 2 years early.<ref>{{cite news | title=Dell, EMC End Storage Reseller Partnership Two Years Early | url=http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Dell-EMC-End-Storage-Reseller-Partnership-Two-Years-Early-705362/ | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730100730/http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Data-Storage/Dell-EMC-End-Storage-Reseller-Partnership-Two-Years-Early-705362/ | url-status=dead | archive-date=July 30, 2012 | work=EWeek | date=October 17, 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | title=Dell ends 10-year reseller relationship with EMC | url=http://www.computerworld.com/article/2499048/data-center/dell-ends-10-year-reseller-relationship-with-emc.html | first=Lucas | last=Mearian | work=[[Computerworld]] | date=October 17, 2011 | access-date=July 3, 2018 | archive-date=July 4, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180704034559/https://www.computerworld.com/article/2499048/data-center/dell-ends-10-year-reseller-relationship-with-emc.html | url-status=dead }}</ref> Later Dell would acquire and merge with EMC in the largest tech merger to date.