How Valuable Is EMC's Information Storage Business?

EMC has witnessed a slowdown in its core information storage business over the last couple of years – a trend consistent across most large storage vendors, including NetApp, IBM, Hitachi Data Systems and HP Enterprise. As a result, EMC’s Information Storage division has become the second most valuable division for the company after VMware. Information Storage includes product sales for storage systems, related software product sales and post-sale services and hardware maintenance. Allied sto...