Dell Strategy: Small Deals, Not Big Ones

Michael Dell’s effort to revitalize Dell is the focus of a lengthy profile in the New York Times Sunday business section. The story looks at Dell’s strategic moves since re-assuming the CEO position in January after a miserable 2006 for the company. The data center is a significant part of that shift, and a couple newsworthy items emerged. One involves Dell’s acquisition strategy:

Whereas the Dell of old shunned acquisitions, the company is now willing to go shopping. It has made three deals in the last two months

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About Rich Miller

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.