This Cloud Thing Is Real--EMC Drops $1.2B For Virtustream

EMC is a funny sort of an organization, often held up as one of the legacy companies that isn't able to respond to the move to the cloud. The truth of the matter is that they have some pretty interesting things going on. EMC is, of course, the company that co-founded Pivotal. Pivotal is a fascinating company that delivers a bunch of big data and platform tools suited to the modern requirements of enterprises.