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Dan McCormick said the joint engineering between the two companies will not only help partners win sales in the market, but provides customers with a more consistent and seamless IT experience. He said that although both Dell and VMware will have their own individual business and build partnerships with vendors who may compete against other individual families within Dell Technologies, the assurance of a tightly coupled Dell-VMware solution can’t be matched.

“This extends our ability to talk to customers about what their business is trying to achieve, what value they’re trying to create, and then helping to assemble the underlying technology to make it all happen – this is powerful and Dell hit it right on the mark,” said Dan McCormick, Executive Vice President of Davenport Group

“We see [Dell EMC’s] leadership happening everywhere even with the most recent GSA win with VxRail, which is a very important area we play in,” said McCormick. “Anytime that Dell EMC can help simplify the complex environment within the federal buying process, it allows the channel a good opportunity to step in with their unique value.”

Davenport Group’s Dell EMC storage sales increased double digits in 2018 compared with the year prior, according to McCormick, who said Clarke has created a winning storage hand that will continue to pay big dividends for all of the company’s channel partners going forward.

Partners are pumped for the new Dell Technologies Advantage framework, telling CRN that an end-to-end cohesive story and channel delivery mechanism will undoubtedly change the customer conversation.

“It really helps to elevate the conversation into one that’s more about the enterprise stack and the overall business priority,” said Dan McCormick, Executive Vice President at St. Paul, Minn.-based Davenport Group, a Dell Technologies partner.

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“Dell Technologies, Dell EMC and VMware in particular, has demonstrated a commitment to align products, solutions, services and programs across brands, and I expect to see increasing collaboration going forward irrespective of which path Dell Technologies may take to re-emerge as a public company,” said Dan McCormick, Executive Vice President of Davenport Group.

“It shows the seriousness that Dell EMC has about putting the channel front and center for some of the key businesses and key customers that they’re trying to get,” said Dan McCormick, Executive Vice President of Davenport Group. 

Davenport Group announced today that Rick Rutherford, Network Engineer, has earned the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification. This certification is difficult to complete, requiring months of study and field work. With this training, Davenport Group will continue to extend their ability to integrate Dell EMC solutions into complex, diverse environments.

Paul Clifford, Davenport Group President, shares his thoughts on the first day of Dell Technologies World. Watch his interview with CRN by clicking the link below.