Enterprise Computing: Dell Acquire Perot Systems

After a lot of second guessing by people, Dell have finally made that purchase and announced today they intend to acquire Perot Systems, which will become the services arm for the company. There’s no doubt that Dell needed to do something to match the technology and services play offered by IBM...

September 21st, 2009 | Enterprise Storage | Read More

Off The Grid

I’ve been on holiday for the last week (sunning myself and the family in Cyprus). I had no Internet access – not even TV! Although I had no laptop (or Blackberry this time) I did take my iPod Touch, now configured with the mobile version of NewsGator. As I’ve mentioned previously,...

August 19th, 2008 | Uncategorized | Read More

Equallogic gets Bought

Dell have announced their intention to purchase Equallogic, an iSCSI hardware vendor. The purchase price is $1.4 billion in cash but the deal doesn’t complete for some time, late 2008 or 2009. Is this an attempt for Dell to move on their storage business? I’ve never taken them seriously...