At its first-ever Dell Storage Forum in Orlando last week, Dell introduced several new products from its storage acquisitions - Dell Compellent and EqualLogic - and from its own native PowerVault product line. Attendees at the Storage Forum were charged up about the products and roadmap enhancements, as well as the direction Dell is taking at integrating the products they've used before.
Dell on Thursday announced the creation of a US$100 million credit fund aimed at giving startups the "financial and scalable technology resources they need to maximize potential for innovation, speed to market and job creation."
Darren “Top Gun” Thomas, Dell’s (NASDAQ: DELL) storage group chief, has left the company after nine years, ostensibly to pursue a new outside opportunity, amid the unit’s declining sales and a shift in focus to building integrated enterprise solutions.
Thomas, who came to Dell after 15 years at Compaq, will be replaced, at least in the near term, by a general manager and vice president duo,
Does Michael Dell work closely with channel partners? Consider these anecdotes: Last week, Dell (pictured, left) and Channel Chief Greg Davis (right) hosted about a dozen partners in San Jose, Calif. The week before, Davis and Dell had lunch with partners in New York City. So yes, Michael Dell is focused on channel partners.
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) has acquired Credant Technologies, a data protection and encryption specialist that safeguards more than 2 million endpoints. Financial details were not disclosed. It’s a safe bet Dell Channel Chief Greg Davis (pictured) is already in touch with Credant channel leaders like Darren Shimkus and Jerry Jalaba. PartnerDirect VARs should sit up and take notice.
Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) is huddling with several large equity firms over a possible multi-million dollar buyout to take the company private, according to a report in Bloomberg News. The chatter arrives amid some key Dell executive departures.
Lerer Ventures, one of the better known seed stage venture capital funds based out of New York, is raising a $30 million fund, according to its Form D filed today with the SEC. It’s the third fund in the venture firm’s history and aims to raise the bar a bit from Lerer’s second fund, of $25 million, which it raised in May 2011.
As Dell works to finalize the Quest Software buyout, Quest continues to partner with Dell rivals like NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) and Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ). The big question: Can Quest (NASDAQ: QSFT) really continue to work closely with many of Dell’s storage, networking and PC rivals?
As small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) feel the squeeze in data storage capacity, Dell’s Financial Services (DFS) division is reaching out to its channel partners with a zero percent financing program for the company’s EqualLogic storage systems.
The Zero-Percent EqualLogic promotion is the first zero-percent offer for the Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) partner channel, and is a 36-month zero percent $1.0
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