Dell Remakes Itself
Michael Dell (Dell) thinks the future of his company lies in reducing IT complexity for customers. “We’re simplifying your client infrastructure, we’re simplifying your data center,” he told attendees at the Oracle (NSDQ: ORCL) OpenWorld conference in San Francisco two weeks ago. “And we’re launching services to assess complexity and simplify your environment.” Dell said he plans to triple the size of the company’s services business within three years.
Acquisitions are one way he plans to get there. In a turnaround from its historical organic-growth strategy, Dell has acquired five companies in the past four months, topped off with the Nov. 15 agreement to acquire Everdream, a provider of on-demand software services for managing business PCs. Dell sees Everdream complementing its August acquisition of ASAP, a provider of software and services for IT asset management, and its July acquisition of SilverBack Technologies, whose technology helps service providers manage and monitor their customers’ servers, storage systems, networks, and desktops. Dell offers SilverBack to Dell resellers and integrators, and will use it to build out its own IT infrastructure services, a spokesman says.
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