About Dell
Dell Inc. (DELL 4331), an American technology company based in Round Rock, Texas, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers, servers, data storage devices, network switches, personal digital assistants (PDAs), software, televisions, computer peripherals, and other technology-related products. As of 2006, Dell employed more than 78,700 people worldwide.
Read MoreDell grew through the 1980s and 1990s to become at one stage the largest seller of PCs and servers. It currently holds the second spot in the hardware computer industry behind Hewlett-Packard after the latter's merger with Compaq in 2002.
In 2006, Fortune magazine ranked Dell as the 25th-largest company in the Fortune 500 list, 8th on its annual [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/mostadmired/top20/ Top 20 list] of the most-admired companies in the United States. In 2007 Dell ranked 34th and 8th respectively on the equivalent lists for the year. A 2006 publication identified Dell as one of 38 high-performance companies in the S&P; 500 which had consistently out-performed the market over the previous 15 years.
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Dell Hawks Its New Modular Data Center
Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 31 2010)
Dell has been relatively quiet about its modular data-center products, but on Tuesday it showed off a ne...
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With HP Bid at $2B, Dell Mulls Options on 3PAR
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 29 2010)
...uire Fremont tech company 3Par, the immediate winner in the bidding war between Hewlett-Packard and Dell will be 3Par’s investors, including top executives and three Silicon Valley venture firms that help...
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From M&A to R&D, Cloud is Driving IT Activity
Explore Article Structure Blog (Aug 29 2010)
...ll need to compete in an increasingly integrated IT market. This week, all the talk is about either Dell or HP buying 3PAR to get its hands on the latter’s storage lineup, which is optimal for virtualized...
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HP Strengthens Database Portfolio With Stratavia Buy
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 26 2010)
...d to Technorati Add to Twitter Add to Viadeo Despite the company being locked in a bidding war with Dell for cloud storage specialist 3Par, HP has announced that it has acquired application and database a...
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Signs of Strength from Server Sector
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 26 2010)
...ent from reporting revenue increases for the second quarter. Aside from the battle for 3PAR between Dell and HP there have been several upbeat announcements about the server market and processors, and one...
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Why the Bidding War for 3Par is Great News for Green IT
Explore Article EnterpriseITplanet.com / Green (Aug 24 2010)
Wall Street is buzzing this week over the bidding war that has erupted between Dell and HP for 3Par. A brief recap: 3Par has been on the market for a couple of months with an auction....
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Brocade Readying 100G Ethernet for Data Centers
Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 18 2010)
... LAN products. In addition to selling its own equipment, Brocade makes gear that is resold by Dell and Hewlett-Packard. On Wednesday, it reported revenue of US$504 million for its fiscal third quart...
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Analysis: Dell-3PAR Storage Acquisition
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Aug 16 2010)
Dell today announced an agreement to acquire 3PAR, which provides virtualized storage solutions with adv...
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Dell Buying 3PAR for $1.15 Billion
Explore Article The New York Times (Aug 16 2010)
Dell on Monday announced it has agreed to acquire virtualized storage provider 3PAR for about US$1.15 bi...
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One Year On: Cisco UCS Making Headway
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 3 2010)
...launch of its Unified Computing System, it jumped into a pool of sharks named IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Fujitsu and Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). Plus, it took a major risk in opening a whole new fiel...
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Report Points To Tough Times In Server Industry
Explore Article Home - eWeekEurope.co.uk (Aug 3 2010)
...oPro, spending on servers will continue to be slow in 2010 * By: Jeffrey Burt * August 3, 2010 Tags:Dell, IBM, oracle, Sun Add to digg Add to Facebook Add to LinkedIn Add to reddit Add to Slashdot Add to ...
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IBM's reorg shows shape of IT to come
Explore Article Technology News (Jul 28 2010)
...higher level. But today, one finds virtually all of IBM's major competitors--for instance, Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, Oracle, and VMware--all creating and exploiting systematic plays. They've even stolen the...
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Spending Soars on Internet's Plumbing
Explore Article Business News & Financial News (Jul 20 2010)
...endors Innovate With Virtualization NIKKEI REPORT IT Firms Prepare for Cloud-Based Battle EWEEK Dell Works With Liquidware DOW JONES BUSINESS NEWS Microsoft Lines Up Partners for Azure Products Acc...
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Dell Acquires Scalent
Explore Article Data Center Knowledge (Jul 2 2010)
Dell announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Scalent, a private company that provi...
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From the data center trenches: IT manager talks shop
Explore Article Data Center (Jun 29 2010)
...xpect companies to contract large consulting services from companies such as Perot Systems (now Dell), EDS (now Hewlett-Packard) or IBM in the future? John Parker: Consulting was a lot of fun, I love ...
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