To the extent that the Nasdaq market exists anywhere, it's within a single rack-mounted Dell server in a rented data center somewhere across the Hudson River.
The 12G-server line now represents almost 80 percent of Dell PowerEdge server revenue at average selling prices and margins that are a premium over previous-generation servers.
Sugar operated using a three-year old Dell (DELL) server and it was growing fast so it was considering buying a new one to add to its ability to handle more business.
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Dell's server growth was driven by its new, 12th-Generation line, leadership in hyper-scale infrastructure solutions and an increase in customer adoption of cloud solutions for their IT requirements.
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Consistent with its strategy, Dell saw growth in its server, services and networking businesses.
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And he notes that HP, IBM and Cisco are competing more with Dell in the SMB and server markets.
If an important server fails, Dell technicians (often Unisys (nyse: UIS - news - people ) employees under contract) can have it replaced in less than four hours.
Almost a fifth of server computers sold by Dell now have Linux installed rather than Windows.
Dell plans to begin using BizTalk Server 2000 this week in live production for part of its supply chain system, Gates said.
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Every time an SAP or Oracle application was sold, every time a server was sold by Dell or Hewlett Packard, every time a major consulting product was sold by IBM, Accenture, or Capgemini, Whitehurst wants Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its other products in the mix.
Dell was the only top-3 server provider to have positive unit growth in the quarter.
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Dell remained a distant third in the server market market, despite a sales surge that pushed its share of worldwide server sales to 14.8% from 13.1% during the year-ago period.
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We can't say we're completely surprised when Microsoft made an investment in Dell's reorg precisely to safeguard PCs, but it's good to know that Dell's interest in PCs still extends well beyond the server room.
Dell's enterprise solution strategy continued to show positive results with server and networking revenue increasing 11 percent year over year.
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And, in its lower-end Intel-based server market, Compaq is facing stiffer competition, not least from Dell.
Dell is VMware's number one reseller, and in the view of Dell, the acquisition makes a good fit because EqualLogic is a good platform for VMware server virtualization products.
Dell used this strategy almost flawlessly to dominate PCs--and, again, to attack the server business, Compaq in particular, with a handful of PC-based products in 1995.
Statements in this press release that relate to future results and events (including statements about trends relating to macroeconomic challenges, effects of our server business, and government demand) are forward-looking statements and are based on Dell's current expectations.
Dell needs to expand its presence in the corporate data centers, where it has a strong lineup of server offerings.
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