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SearchVirtualStorage.com published an interview with Todd Pavone, Chief Operating Officer of VCE Company, LLC (the “Company”), a link to which was posted on the Company’s website. Following are excerpts from that interview.

What type of companies are VCE’s most common customers?

Our sweet spot initially has been medium to large globals, to large service providers. And initially, our sweet spot was the core data center, but it’s now extended into the edge. We have a customer in Canada that has hundreds of edge locations and a core data center. They love the idea of our appliances in the edge and our VxRacks in the core, and our Vblocks in the core and tying it all together. [Our number of customer accounts] is in the 1,500 to 2,000 range. We don’t have tens of thousands of customers, which means we are able to give a pretty unique customer experience.

We’ll see what happens with the Dell model, because right now, who knows if that’ll play out or not. But if it does, they’re tremendous in the [small and medium-sized business, or SMB] market, and we’re good at the high-end markets. So, you could see a very good potential complement.

How will you deal with overlap after the Dell-EMC acquisition? Dell has an EVO:RAIL appliance.

There’s very little overlap when you look at it, which is I think the power of this merger of the two companies. They actually, for the most part, complement each other very well. Dell has a tremendous channel to the SMB; I believe the best supply chain in the world. So, if or when this happens, we get to leverage that. And by the way, we get to maintain the Vblock as Cisco, which is important, because customers love the Cisco technology for networking servers. We’re never going to change that. So, from my perspective, we get the best of both worlds. We get to come together with a great supply chain, great technology that gets us into place that we were never able to get to, and we maintain what we have and to continue to evolve what we have in that core data center.

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