At Dell World 2014, Dell has announced they are the world's fastest growing, integrated technology company. On the heels of this news, Dell is also expanding its global footprint by opening another solution center for enterprise customers. Through its research arm, Dell is pushing disruptive innovation to record-breaking performance. With Dell Financial Services, Dell is helping customers acquire technologies to drive business value. And Dell Ventures is helping to shape the future of IT.
At Dell World 2014, Dell has announced they are the world's fastest growing, integrated technology company. On the heels of this news, Dell is also expanding its global footprint by opening another solution center for enterprise customers. Through its research arm, Dell is pushing disruptive innovation to record-breaking performance. With Dell Financial Services, Dell is helping customers acquire technologies to drive business value. And Dell Ventures is helping to shape the future of IT.
Dell's end-to-end solutions growth is outpacing their competitors. According to IDC, Dell was the number one storage supplier in the first half of 2014 based on total terabytes sold. Also according to IDC, Dell maintained its number two share position in the global x86 server market and retained the number one share position in APJ. For the second straight quarter, Dell was the only major vendor to generate year-over-year growth in both rack and blade servers and Dell Software had double-digit revenue growth with Dell Software's channel-related revenue also experiencing double-digit growth. Dell's U.S. PC share is 24%, up 3.1%, with a worldwide growth of 10% during the third quarter of 2014. Gartner has ranked Dell as number one in Worldwide IT Services For Healthcare Providers (based on 2013 revenue). And Dell qualified as a major contender in the Everest Group Banking IT Outsourcing PEAK Matrix report.
New Solution Center
In early 2015, Dell will open a new solution center in downtown Chicago. This new solution center will give Dell fifteen solution centers worldwide. From large enterprise markets to small companies, Dell's solution centers allows all their customers to explore, test, and develop the solutions and technologies that best suit their needs. Dell has completed almost 20,000 enterprise customer and partner engagements in their solution centers since 2011, influencing over $4 billion in customer sales. All solution centers are able to connect with one another all over the world giving customers the power of a global network to test their applications.
Research
Dell Research has developed a proof‐of‐concept solution called High Velocity Cloud. Dell claims that High Velocity Cloud can support all of the mobile device traffic of a city the size of Austin, Texas using only one quarter of a rack of Dell server and networking equipment. The High Velocity Cloud enables twenty times improvement in capability of virtualized standard servers to handle network-intensive functions. Using a virtualized standard Dell R920 server with standard network adapters and no special hardware, Dell set a performance record with the High Velocity Cloud by supporting "214Gb/s of bandwidth while still leaving 90 percent of the server CPU free for running network-intensive workloads." Using the High Velocity Cloud, services that might have taken months to roll out can now be done in minutes.
Dell Financial
Dell Financial Services (DFS) has expanded into Latin America and now provides services for 19 countries. DFS is the fastest growing segment of Dell with over 2,000 partners helping to remove financial barriers to acquiring new technology allowing customers to grow their businesses.
Dell Ventures
And Dell Ventures, the investment arm of Dell, has heavily invested in various companies that include storage, cloud computing, big data, next‐generation data center, security, and mobility. These investments help Dell partner and contribute to the success of more entrepreneurs and startups with leading‐edge emerging technology solutions. Dell gives these startups access to brand, customers, partnerships, and OEM solutions.
