the dell emc part of dell technologies is based here.oughly a $30 billion revenue business based here out of boston. we have 9000 employees in the greater bost aa. it continues to be a great source of innovation, the university connections, we have a research center in cambridge where i will be spending time today. that is great in terms of how we build and scale a technology company. in terms of investments we make in dell technologies, they still tend to be u.s.-based, generally. i would say 80% are u.s.-based. we do see interesting activity in companies like israel where we have made investments. t basically u.s.-based with a mix of east coast and west coast. it is not all silicon valley. there is innovation here and up and down the east coast, as well. caroline: will it all stay in the united states? within thcuent administration, concerns about talent coming from abroad, does that change the playing field at all? david: no, it is important that our markets are very global. as a company we operate in 180 different countries around th

dell emc wrapped up their conference in las vegas.inking about partnerships with microsoft and amazon. i spoke with president david goulden. i started by asking him about the conference. it is the largest event since the companies merged last november. david: it was a coming-out out party for the new company. when you think about last september, a little less than a year. people were may be concerned the merger would be a distraction. it may slow down the pace of innovation. we are able to show the pace of innovation increased. powerful incredibly set of announcements and the portfolio was addressed. ge have a new line of 14 servers based on the latest servers. that was the biggest announcement. that, newk of versions of our systems, based upon the 14 g service. it is all based upon flash these days, new versions of our systems. the entire portfolio was refreshed. caroline: what about as we move into the joint venture area eight you are talking about, can you unfold for us how you are working alongside to offer more things to more peo

. >>> dell technologies this morning kicking off the annual dell emc world conference with announcementsw high bid cloud stuff. there's a deal with sales force for servers and storage. dell is going to sell them a bunch of laptops. the biggest news, dell has a new way to sell real stuff that's a shot across the bow at the public cloud providers like amazon, google, microsoft. dell is willing to put its physical equipment in your data center but only charge you for what you actually use. you get the advantages of having the hardware close to you which some customers still want for regulatory reasons. i sat down with the company's founder and ceo at dell head quarters in texas to talk about the company's plan for cloud services in the future for dell technologies. take a listen. >> i don't want this to come across as we're anti-public cloud. >> sure, you sell them a lot of stuff. >> exactly. and we have partnerships with many if not all the public cloud providers, but we believe there's an appropriate workload for those environments, and when you modernize and automate the some premise sys

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those cisco partners tend to favor the cisco gear over the dell emc alternatives and so a lot of work conjunction with emc, we believe we're shifting over to pure and that, again, is a big tailwind for our business. >> all right, scott dietzen, the ceo of pure storage. quite a day for the stock on that positive earnings report. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >>> as we head to break, take a look at oil prices, they are plunging down 3.5%, just breaking below $50 a barrel again. the energy sector is the worst performing in the s&p right now, this after opec ministers signalled they will extend those production cuts for another nine months. whether that was baked in already or disappointed the markets is certainly weighing on the price. we'll be right back on "squawk alley." it's all yours. wow! record time. ♪ at cognizant, we're helping today's leading life sciences companies go beyond developing prescriptions to offering subscriptions with personalized, real-time advice for life-long, healthy living. honey? you almost done? nope. ♪ get ready, because we're helping leading compani

dell. he took his company private. he has acquired emc. ogy company and that's why i'm so excited about the relationship between sales force and dell. >> mr. dell, what will this allow your clients or customers to do now they couldn't previously? >> so, at dell technologies we have almost 40,000 sales people and about 200,000 channel partners, and we're enabling all of them with the sales force tools as we have really for over a decade, and now with the combination of dell and emc and vm ware and booming, we created this new company, dell technologies. salesforce is a fantastic partner. >> michael, is it fair to say that your company's ethos at this point is very much a bet on the private cloud in contrast to the public crowd services amazon and google offer? >> well, you know, marc is building a cloud, you know, largely powered by dell technologies. what we see is the cloud is actually not a place but rather a way of doing i.t. so you're seeing this multi-cloud world emerge where there's certainly a public cloud, there's soft wares and ser