EMC (NYSE: EMC) reported Q4 EPS of $0.69, beating analyst estimates of $0.68. Revenue for the quarter came in at $7.05 billion versus the consensus estimate of $7.1 billion.

Industry executives all agree that lots of the services that exist today are useful technologies, but are not new.  There’s still a lot of opportunity to find technologies that do things faster and in closer to real-time.   Cloud and converged infrastructure is a big driver. According to Dave Vellante and Wikbon analysts the worldwide collective marketplace for infrastructure software services and hardware data center services is in the trillions.  Large enterprises historically challenged with managing cumbersome warehouses were chomping at the bit for alternatives.

The federation business model is working.  Just today EMC President Brian Gallagher came into a conversation on #hybridcloud and amplified the success of Cloudfoundry which reported record worldwide growth in 2014 in customer adoption and sales of Pivotal Cloud Foundry.

@furrier The PaaS market is heating up with over 70 platforms and #cloudfoundry as the cornerstone…. #hybriditfiles http://t.co/68rPBbRIkK

— Brian Gallagher (@BGallagher32) January 29, 2015

@furrier vBlock & EHC is best choice today for EMC customers that want CI. With #cloudfoundry you'll see hybrid solutions move up the stack

— Brian Gallagher (@BGallagher32) January 29, 2015

Statement from EMC earnings press release

EMC Information Infrastructure business fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 revenue were each up 2% year over year. Information Storage revenue in the fourth quarter grew 3% year over year and 2% for the full year. Emerging Storage revenue in the fourth quarter grew 40% year over year and 52% for the full-year 2014, achieving $2.3 billion in revenue over the course of 2014, with notably strong growth for EMC XtremIO, EMC ViPR, EMC Isilon and EMC ScaleIO.

Within this, EMC XtremIO bookings more than doubled to nearly $300 million in the fourth quarter compared with the previous quarter, thereby securing a commanding lead over the all-flash array market segment.

Unified and Backup and Recovery revenue grew in the fourth quarter and was up 4% for the full-year 2014. Within this, EMC VNX systems continue to do well, adding approximately 2,000 new customers in the fourth quarter, with the vast majority being new to EMC storage.

RSA fourth-quarter revenue grew 4% year over year and grew 5% for 2014. Converged infrastructure offerings from VCE and VSPEX continued to drive revenue growth in the fourth quarter, with VCE adding a record number of new customers in the quarter.

VMware continued its rapid growth trajectory with fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 revenue within EMC each up 16% year over year as customers continue investing in software-defined data center, hybrid cloud solutions and end-user computing.

Pivotal grew fourth-quarter revenue 18% and full-year 2014 revenue 27% year over year, and remains the fastest growing of EMC’s federated businesses, benefiting from customers leveraging the portfolio to build third platform applications that are transforming their business.