Originally posted on December 31, 2007 @ 11:51 pm
A few days ago, I blogged about Dell’s deal with Tesco, which i think is the computer manufacturer’s move to further expand its market. Now, I recently found out that Dell is going to buy a privately held storage consulting company as a way of increasing its presence in the storage sector.
The company, Networked Storage Company, is based in England and offers clients a number of services that seek to assist companies in implementing their own data storage solutions.
This purchase comes in the heels of Dell’s announcement a while ago of buying EqualLogic, a company that specializes in iSCSI storage.
These series of acquisitions are seen to fit into the Simplify IT initiative that Dell is spearheading. The said program aims to provide clients with a streamlined offering of hardware, software and services that will significantly simplify how IT infrastructure is built in a company.
Will Dell succeed in such a lofty and very ambitious project. It’s one thing to provide good hardware, but to provide a whole complement of hardware, software and services to end-users looks to be very daunting. Will Dell have the muscle to really back this new initiative for the company. Only time will tell.