Dell

The colocation giant gives Dell’s nascent subscription business a global data center platform.

A group of vendors has banded together to form a trade association of sorts to define a vision for a distributed, edge-first internet.

The deal follows last year's RSA spinoff and last month's decision to spin off Dell's stake in VMware.

Its acquisition of former VMware parent EMC helped Dell branch out from its origins as a PC maker, but left the company saddled with debt.

Project Apex will let customers manage information and applications across public clouds and their own data centers.

While PC demand has seen a boost, businesses have become cautious in major data center equipment purchases.

Dell's efforts to refresh its PC lineup as users do more computing at home have paid off, while the pandemic-fueled recession has reduced corporate demand for data center hardware.