Article: United states : Cisco, EMC plan tech partnership, not merger.

Byline: Mamta03

Tech heavyweights Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) and EMC Corp (EMC.N) dampened speculation of a merger as they unveiled a partnership to take on rivals Hewlett-Packard Co (HPQ.N) and IBM (IBM.N).

The companies have spent three years developing technology and ironing out the details of a deep partnership through which they will bundle Cisco's networking equipment and server computers with EMC's storage and virtualization technology.

Their goal is to become a top provider of data center products as the industry switches to "cloud" computing services, where data is stored on central servers that can be accessed over the Internet and ...

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