PC and mobile businesses are important to Dell’s
Dell CEO Michael Dell (Michael Dell) said that his company still considers the PC business is very important as mobile devices business. According to him, these areas provide a saving of resources to help develop the corporate sector.
In combining different directions within a single company there are a number of economic benefits. Mr. Dell during the event Dell World noted that due to the participation in the business PC company can buy accessories for the corporate sector is much cheaper.
About 95% of acquired hard drives, RAM and CPU are on the PC, and purchase of these components in large quantities helps to create a hardware server products cheaper. Michael Dell said that in terms of costs, this approach provides significant advantages.
Dell primarily creates its servers based on microprocessors from companies such as Intel and AMD. The company is actively developing corporate markets, creating a package of proposals in areas such as software, hardware, networks and services, but from Dell, according to her manager, has no plans to end business PC.
These comments are the head of the world’s second-PC company (according to the latest Gartner, is third in the world, but still second in the U.S.) have to do for the reason that the leader of the market, HP, discusses the prospects of his unit Personal Systems Group, engaged in computer and mobile devices. In August, HP has made the statement struck many plans for the allocation of PSG in a single company or even by selling it for concentration of efforts on more profitable corporate sector. The final decision of HP, is expected to adopt later this month. Learn about today!
Earnings of many PC manufacturers fell to its lowest level, which is one of the reasons for the possible separation of business PC HP. Dell sees the indecision of its main competitor as an extra chance to get new customers. In this case, according to Mr. Dell, the company focuses primarily on the level of profits, not on volumes of supplies of equipment.
Previously, Dell has been known as a company that sells computers directly to its customers. Today, she develops services in the corporate sector. Over the past few years, Dell has made several important acquisitions, including service company Perot Systems, a network firm Force10 Networks, and EqualLogic and Compellent, systems and services dealing with data storage. The company also provides storage centers and data processing for cloud computing, along with research centers to create standard architectures of cloud applications.
Michael Dell says that the PC, smartphones and tablets are also expanding the use of server systems. Using the server is constantly growing with the development of mobile devices and PCs, which are now in the world for more than two billion.
Steve Felice (Steve Felice), president of the consumer market sector, small and medium-sized businesses Dell, answering questions from journalists and analysts said that the company is continuing its efforts to develop their offerings on the market of smartphones and tablets and is going to release new devices based both on the operating system Google Android, and based on the upcoming Microsoft Windows 8.
Mr. Felice did not say when to expect the market to Dell devices based on Windows 8, but many expressed enthusiasm about the prospects of a new platform from Microsoft. Interestingly, in respect of Android, he was more circumspect, saying that the OS has been very successful in the smartphone market, but not in the sector plates.
Currently, Dell introduced a number of tablets with different series Streak diagonal screens, as well as several smartphones based on Android. All these products are still not as successful in the market, however, according to Steve Felice, the company enters into alliances and partnerships and expects success of future products.