EMC CEO Joe Tucci

LAS VEGAS — For the first time, EMC is holding a formal Global Partner Summit the day before its annual EMC World customer event gets started here.

Global Partner Summit starts Sunday afternoon at the Venetian here, with some 3,000 of the company’s solution providers in attendance.

Expected on the main stage in a marathon five-hour keynote session are CEO Joe Tucci, vice chairman William Teuber, Pat Gelsinger, CMO Jeremy Burton, global channel chief Gregg Ambulos, and much more.

And, of course, I’ll be in the audience, liveblogging the event — including the keynote session Sunday afternoon — for those of you who can’t be on hand for the event in Sin City.

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