Michael Dell, end-to-end, PC to the Data Center

greenm3.com (Oct 5 2011) Grid Computing , Servers

1. Michael Dell gave a keynote at Oracle OpenWorld, and there is blog post summarizing his presentation. Michael emphasizes they go embrace the PC. 2. We Still Love Hardware: Without mentioning Hewlett-Packard by name, Dell took a few shots at HP’s potential PC division spin-out. Dell said his company has rapidly evolved from PCs to servers to cloud solutions. “There are many reasons to stay committed to the PC, he said. “There will be two billion PCs in a few years.” Dell estimated that 95 percent of disk drives are in PCs, and five percent are in servers. A company without PCs can’t gain volume pricing advantages for server components, Dell asserted. “The client offers enormous scale,” said Dell. “Give up that scale and you need to raise your prices.” Data Center is not specifically mentioned, but implied in this statement. 3. Total Picture: “Dell is not a PC ... (Read Full Article)

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